Who coined the political phrase "silent majority"?

Question

In his opinion, what did the "silent majority" want?
What was the "noisy minority" doing?

Answer 1

It is a term used by the U.S. President Richard Nixon in a 1969 speech

Answer 2

Richard Nixon

The silent majority referred to those Americans who did not join in the large demonstrations against the Vietnam War at the time. who did not engage in riots and attack police officers, who did not join in the counterculture, and who did not enthusiastically participate in public discourse or the media. Nixon along with many others saw this group as being overshadowed by the more vocal minority.

The noisy minority wanted an end to the Vietnam war.

Original speech: http://www.watergate.info/nixon/silent-majority-speech-1969.shtml

Answer 3

Nixon popularized the term "silent majority"

It was in use in the 1960's in such as sociology journals and definded as the "middle Americans", it was found in Australian and British academic journals as well.

"the heart of small-town America—the silent
majority " Australian Journal of Social issues 1961


Before all that "The Silent Majority" referred to well "the dearly departed", those gone before us, etc. I must add I hear in some cities that folks in graveyards still "vote".

Answer 4

Someone in a minority trying to get his way.

Answer 5

It was Richard Nixon.

Answer 6

the greeks