The Great Silent Majority: Tough-o-Meter
The Great Silent Majority: Tough-o-Meter
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Nixon is not trying to impress all you Shakespearean scholars out there by speaking in iambic pentameter whilst cradling a human skull a la Hamlet. No, this speech is for the average Joe and normal Nancy. He wants to reach out to all of America, so he keeps the rhetoric simple and his Victorian-era costumes at home.
It would be pretty cool to hear this speech in Shakespearean terms, though.