Some of the major differences between detrivores and decomposers are as follows: 1. They are animals which feed on detritus. Image Courtesy : uic.edu/classes/bios/bios101/x311_files/images/image31.png.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. The silent majority helped Nixon get elected in 1968. Many people chose to vote for Nixon because he had then promised to end the Vietnam War.
Richard Milhous Nixon, the thirty-seventh President of the United States (1969-74) became President in 1969 after defeating Lyndon Johnson's Vice-President, Hubert Humphrey, in one of the closest elections in US history. Nixon won that election by only one percent of the popular vote. Nixon was the second youngest Vice President and the first Californian to serve in the White House. He was also the first Vice President to be elected President, but not to succeed the President under whom he had served.