Then the counterculture overreached, Nixon found his "silent majority", and railed against his own bugbear elites: the now familiar culprits in academia, Hollywood and the press.
The importance of his ideas is that they represent the unspoken opinion of the silent majority.
So tonight, to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans, I ask for your support.
A silent majority seems to know that demography and economics make pension reform inevitable.
