Shocking news (Metaphor)
Nixon and Eisenhower were at the news conference that Wednesday morning when “the maverick Supreme Court Justice William Douglas dropped his bombshell in the Rosenberg case”. Before that fatal Wednesday, “everything had been proceeding according to plan” and the Rosenbergs were supposed executed any day. Then, to everybody’s shock and the Rosenbergs’ happiness, Douglas “called it off”.
Young and inexperience (Metaphor)
When Nixon was a schoolboy, he had a part in a play based on Vergil’s Aeneid. He was proud to be Aeneas until Ola, who played Queen Dido, started calling him “Anus”. Many years later, when he was in the Navy, he realized he could call her “Queen Dildo”, but back then he was “too green” to know about that.
Unattainable (Metaphor)
Nixon struggled a lot in order to make Pat give in. She laughed at him, tried to put him off, made him drive her into Los Angeles for dates and “kept me on leash for over two years”. She was too cool for a guy like Nixon at that time.
Innocent (Simile)
Dwight Eisenhower was described as a “clean as hound’s tooth”, absolutely innocent, the person “who will go to Korea restore faith in God and country and carry on a crusade to clean up creeping socialism”. He was the perfect son of Light.
Pipe smoking (Simile)
When Bill Knowland entered through the Cloakrooms doors, he was noticed by everyone. The Majority Leader was “puffing in on us like an old World War I armored car”. This simile might refer to Knowland’s stout figure and smoking habits.
A bunch of fools (Simile)
The Rosenbergs were fated to die. Everyone, the President, the Congress and many other important political figures, had been talking about the Red threat for so long that they couldn’t release them without making the entire U.S. prosecuting team look “like a bunch of clowns” who didn’t know what they were doing.
