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All right, we need to go back to line 63 and see where the author uses the attempt to stifle.
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And a lot of times it's helpful to read the sentences around line 63 and not just line 63 to get a better idea for context.
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So if we start in the sentence before, government of this government to be successful conduct of this war to the peace, we shall be enduring for the best interest of this country.
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Suppose success attends to the attempt to stifle all discussion of the issues of this war, all discussion of the terms upon which it should be concluded, all discussion of objects and purposes of the accomplished by it and concede the demand of the war.
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Okay.
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So when we look at this, it's asking why the author used an attempt to stifle.
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And so if we go back and look at what answer choices, we need to pick our best answer.
01:13
Now we can see that he is saying that he believes that he doesn't want the issues of war to not be talked about, right? he thinks it's the issues of war, highly undesirable and contrary to major goals of american democracy.
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So we need to find an answer choice that plugs.
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Into those hints that we found for ourselves.
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So if we look at answer choice a, answer choice a says sympathetic.
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Now, he's not really offering sympathies, right, to suppress free speech...