Episode 55 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union (Part 2) The Silent Majority

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This episode opens as the Apollo 11 Astronauts have returned from their mission to the moon. It was a moment in which the United States had finally found something to rally around as one united country. But that sense of national unity won't last, not because of events in the heavens, but due to a war here on Earth. 

In this look at the final 6 months of Richard Nixon's first year, we will listen to him answer questions about his thoughts on the war he inherited and why he thought it important that we hold the line in South East Asia.  Then we switch gears and discuss his hopes to restructure our Federal Government and make it more efficient for solving our domestic problems here at home. 

You will listen in as Richard Nixon addresses the nation on reforming Welfare and moving away from a policy that destroyed families and ran fathers out of the home. He will discuss spinning off power from the Federal Government and returning it to the State Government and to the people. He would foresee many of our national issues of today, a full half century ahead of his time.

Finally, he will rally the country on how to address the war in Vietnam and ask for the help of the great Silent Majority of Americans that he knew supported stopping the high water mark of communism before it would have a chance to take root in South East Asia and possibly spread throughout the world. 

His address that November night would be one of his most effective.

Finally, we will listen in on the first Christmas for the Nixon family in the White House and take a full view of the many traditions that our new first Lady Pat Nixon began in that first Christmas in the White House. 

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