James Fallows quote ✍️

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For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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E
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E
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N
Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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