MICHELE NORRIS, host: President Bush wrapped up a five-day trip to Central and South America      today. NPR's senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says he's returning to a      somewhat hostile political environment at home.</s>DANIEL SCHORR: For a president, normally foreign travel is a way to escape travail at      home and bask in acclaim abroad.  Not much basking this time, though.      The crowds were hostile in the Argentine beach resort of Mar del Plata,      and not much progress was made at the West Hemisphere summit on the trade      deal that the United States is promoting.  News conference questions were      about the shaky status of Karl Rove, and today in Panama the question was      whether Mr. Bush had lived up to a campaign promise to be honest with the      American people.</s>DANIEL SCHORR: A Washington Post/ABC poll reflected a public no longer sure of the      president's personal integrity.  A majority disapproved of his      performance in Iraq, his performance against terrorism, his performance      on the economy.  But what must have been most depressing was that, for      the first time in his five years in office, 58 percent doubted that he      was honest and straightforward.</s>DANIEL SCHORR: Headlines reflect a sense of a presidency in decline.  `The Week Bush Got      Whacked' was the headline in The Times of London over an article that      described the president as growing touchy and lashing out at his junior      staff. In The New Republic, `The Conservative Crackup,' and in the      conservative pro-Bush National Review, `How Bush Can Come Back,'      acknowledging that the president has some coming back to do.</s>DANIEL SCHORR: But the problems to come back from continue to proliferate.  In Panama      today, one question was about secret CIA prisons for terrorism suspects.      The president defended them as necessary to protect the American people.      As they say, `Nothing succeeds like success, and nothing fails like      failure.'  This is Daniel Schorr.</s>MELISSA BLOCK (Host): This is NPR, National Public Radio.
Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that President Bush's mounting troubles at home have followed him throughout his travels in South America.