One of the most memorable lines ever uttered by a network news anchor
was Walter Cronkite's Feb. 27, 1968 editorial on the "CBS Evening
News":
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.