MacArthur made another statement, about the political situation Kennedy had inherited in Indochina, that struck the president so much that he dictated it in an oral memorandum of their conversation: “He said that ‘the chickens are coming home to roost’ from Eisenhower’s years and I live in the chicken coop.”[45] Malcolm X would become notorious for the same barnyard saying after JFK was killed in the chicken coop.
