What Year Was This?

A little quote quiz – Who said it and what year?

“If someone could appeal to the generous spirit of Americans to heal the race question, this is what the campaign should be about.”

“Reporters and political experts were so wrong about much of the campaign…that many, had they professional integrity, would have…written no more about politics.” (The omitted phrases contain year-specific information that, when removed, does not change the context or content of the quote)

“To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion…It is increasingly clear…that the only rational way out will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.”

“The spring of that year was a happy time in American politics. You felt you could do something.”

“[the candidate] is an advocate of appeasement and surrender” and “an apostle of retreat”.

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