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...Over the White House the air was black with chickens coming home to roost...
After all is said & done, what American would want to think of our leader as a "Superman". . .? We'll be content to leave those attributes to comic strips and Der Führer. . . . Our President is a man, a mere mortal, whose "chickens come home to roost." We don't expect him to be infallible...
Over the White House the air was black with chickens coming home to roost. When Franklin Roosevelt returned from his 16-day, 7,600-mile junket to Mexico, he came back to the biggest all-around mess of his ten years in office. The mess was, in the last analysis, of his own making...
...crises in Washington now were too repetitive, too wholesale for the people to dissociate them from their President. The chickens coming home to roost led straight to the White House door...
Next day, everybody was talking at once. Parts of the old Isolationist press were delighted. Said Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson's Washington Times Herald, on page 1: "Clare Boothe Luce, long considered one of our most ardent internationalists, yesterday came home to roost." Delighted also was the stoutly international, Anglophile New York Herald Tribune, which saw in the speech no Isolationist overtones...