Richard Nixon's overwhelming victory in the 1972 presidential election most
supports which of the following conclusions?
A. American voters in the 1970s supported expanding the role of the
federal government to protect consumers and workers.
B. The "silent majority" of women and minority voters who had
previously been denied a political voice voted in large numbers in
the 1970s.
C. The Vietnam War had gradually regained support from most
voters in the 1970s despite the antiwar protests of the 1960s.
D. Huge numbers of Americans had rejected the political liberalism
that had characterized the 1960s by the start of the 1970s.