Based on this excerpt, President Nixon was asking for the support of the “silent majority” regarding which issue? And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your
support The more support I can have from the American people, the sooner that
pledge can be redeemed; for the more divided we are at home, the less likely, the enemy
is to negotiate at Paris.
-President Richard Nixon November 1969
A) civil rights movement
B) Vietnam War
C) national debt
D) nuclear arms race