They also remind us that thesilentmajority who once stood in the face of these threats will be silent no more and that public revulsion against the violence has strengthened the resolve of girls to go to school.
Nixon was the first Republican president to tap into the electoral appeal of the cowboy star as the faded mascot of thesilentmajority, the gentleman of the rugged West who got by fine without welfare and who shot bad guys when he had to.