Ta koma ga sakin layi na ƙasa sannan kuma ta amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe guda kamar yadda aka wuce: Passage: McClintock ya yi ritaya daga matsayinta a Cibiyar Carnegie a 1967, kuma an sanya shi memba mai daraja na Cibiyar Carnegie ta Washington. Wannan girmamawa ya ba ta damar ci gaba da aiki tare da ɗaliban digiri na biyu da abokan aiki a cikin Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor a matsayin masanin kimiyya mai daraja; ta zauna a garin. Game da shawarar da ta yanke shekaru 20 da suka gabata don dakatar da buga cikakken bayani game da aikinta kan sarrafa abubuwa, ta rubuta a 1973: Tambaya: Yaushe McClintock ya yi ritaya?
Shekara ta 1967