In this historical moment from 1972 President Richard Nixon (Republican) expressed, on tape, how he really felt about the so-called “Silent Majority,” the people who had voted him into office and supported him during his presidency by saying: “The American people are suckers,”...“Gray Middle America — they’re suckers."

During the 1972 presidential election Nixon arranged a perfect timing for his visit to China as a distraction to news coverage on the war in Vietnam.

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