To clearly state that he sides with the people, Nixon says, “And many others, I among them, have been strongly critical of the way the war has been conducted”. Nixon believes that a divided nation is a weak nation; therefore he says, “We have faced other crises in our history.” While mentioning previous crises America has gone through is saddening, it unites those who want to end involvement in the Vietnam War with those who do support the war because all Americans felt the same grief in past tragedies. Besides alienating North Vietnam, this sentence also instils a can-do attitude in the people's mind. Mentioning the past crises indicates that America is much better than in those times and demonstrates that America is capable of rising up out of hardships such as the Vietnam war. The ideology Nixon tells the audience is that America has been through bad times before, but it stood together to overcome it; America will be able to overcome this bloody