{"id":1287,"date":"2004-02-08T13:40:57","date_gmt":"2004-02-08T20:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2004-02-08T13:40:57","modified_gmt":"2004-02-08T20:40:57","slug":"nixon-pulls-the-kennedy-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/02\/08\/nixon-pulls-the-kennedy-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Nixon Pulls the Kennedy Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"001858\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/richardnixongreatsilentmajority.html\">The Famous &#8216;Great Silent Majority&#8217; Speech<\/a>  (A slam against the Lame Loud Minority, I suppose.)<\/p>\n<p><i>In 1963 President Kennedy with his characteristic eloquence and clarity said we want to see a stable Government there, carrying on the struggle to maintain its national independence.<\/p>\n<p>We believe strongly in that.\u00a0We are not going to withdraw from that effort. In my opinion, for us to withdraw from that effort would mean a collapse not only of South Vietnam but Southeast Asia.\u00a0So we\u2019re going to stay there.<\/p>\n<p>President Eisenhower and President Johnson expressed the same conclusion during their terms of office.\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon all had Intelligence available to them that you didn&#8217;t!!  <\/p>\n<p>Got that?  Good.  Now shut up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Famous &#8216;Great Silent Majority&#8217; Speech (A slam against the Lame Loud Minority, I suppose.) In 1963 President Kennedy with his characteristic eloquence and clarity said we want to see a stable Government there, carrying on the struggle to maintain its national independence. We believe strongly in that.\u00a0We are not going to withdraw from that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-regurgitates-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}