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Hand to mouth?

However, governing people and managing economies are too large a topic to tackle here. Let’s go small and turn our attention to the phrase itself. Here are two media examples of “hand to mouth”, with the first example dating back to 1959:

1. Since U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles took ill and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan stepped forward toward the leadership of the free world, the British press has been bursting with local pride. And in the process of building Macmillan up, even such ordinarily responsible papers as the Daily Telegraph and the weekly Observer have joined the raucous “popular” press in pot-shooting at an old friend. The target: U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, depicted in the British press as a sick, doddering old man who cannot possibly match wits with Russia’s Nikita Khrushchev at a summer summit conference.

Beginning in February, Daily Mirror Columnist Richard Crossman, a Labor M.P., urged Prime Minister Macmillan to step into the Western vacuum of leadership. Said Grossman: “Poor Mr. Eisenhower is far too old and ailing even to try negotiations with the Kremlin.” Asked the Sunday Express: “Will Ike now turn to Macmillan?” Answer: yes. Reason: “Too long has Ike let himself be known as a leader only in title, who in fact, needs someone else to lead him.” Said the Daily Telegraph: “President Eisenhower is, alas, no longer robust, and the West can provide no substitute for an active and authoritative American Secretary of State.” Said the Daily Express: LEADERSHIP LIES LIKE A DISCARDED SCEPTER IN AMERICA TODAY.