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.
Home Front. Worst mess was the work stoppage in the coal mines, because it was accompanied everywhere by lessened confidence in the White House. Not only the entire nation, but the world, watched in amazement as a mere labor leader, head of half-million...
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