Seth Blumenthal on President Nixon and the Youth Vote
Feb 18, 2019•37 min
Episode description
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we explore how President Nixon built his majority winning coalition in 1972 with a forward thinking innovative appeal to younger voters.
Our guest is Seth Blumenthal, senior lecturer at Boston University and author of “Children of the Silent Majority: Young Voters and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1968-1980." You can follow him on Twitter @sethblumenthal.
Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Photo: President Nixon speaks at a youth rally. (Richard Nixon Foundation).