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Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority (Paperback, New edition)
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Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority (Paperback, New edition)
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In recent years historians have paid substantial attention to the
origins of modern political conservatism and the record of the
Nixon administration in building a Republican majority in the late
twentieth century. In Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New
Majority, Robert Mason analyzes Nixon's response to the developing
conservative climate and challenges revisionist claims about the
activist nature of the Nixon administration. Nixon was an activist
in intent, Mason contends, but not in deed. Nixon's ""silent
majority"" speech of 1969 not only undermined the growth of the
antiwar movement, Mason shows, but also identified a constituency
for Nixon to cultivate in order to secure reelection. However, the
implementation of his new-majority project was hindered by the
resort to dirty tricks against political opponents and the
ineffectual pursuit of a policy agenda. Although some Nixon
initiatives were enacted, says Mason, they were not substantial
enough to rival the Democrats' bread-and-butter issues. While Nixon
built Republican strength at the presidential level, Mason argues
that he did not succeed in mobilizing popular support for
broad-based political conservatism.
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