Ickes resignation: The New York Times, February 14, 1946.
a chronic “resigner”: Quoted in Miller, 226.
“There would have been no rest”: HST to MET and MJT, February 7, 1946, HSTL.
American Mercury article: Crawford, “Everyman in the White House,” February 1946.
“appears to consider it necessary”: Leahy Diary, February 21, 1946, LC.
Stalin statement on war: Donovan, 187.
Justice Douglas reaction: Ibid.
“I will call you Harry”: Ross Diary, March 7, 1946, HSTL.
“Harry, what does a sequence count?”: Quoted in Daniels, The Man of Independence, 279.
“He took a boy’s delight”: Ross Diary, March 7, 1946, HSTL.
Churchill wish to be born American: Gilbert, Winston Churchill. Never Despair, 146.
“You stop drinking”: Ibid., 147.
“do nothing but good”: Ibid.
HST and Churchill on eagle’s head: Ross Diary, March 9, 1946, HSTL.
“Iron curtain” speech: Quoted in Gilbert, 198.
HST denies knowing what Churchill would say: Wallace, 558.
HST pleads “no comment”: PP, HST, March 8, 1946, 145.
“the Long Telegram”: Donovan, 187–88.
“here and now”: Matt Connelly Papers, HSTL.
“He was in his study”: Ross Diary, March 23, 1946, HSTL.
Mary Jane’s reaction to HST press conference: Mary Jane Truman, Oral History, HSTL.
492Life article: Busch, “A Year of Truman,” April 8, 1946.
“Here is to be seen”: The New York Times Magazine, April 7, 1946.
494Time article: May 6, 1946.
“I can hold a Cabinet meeting”: PP, HST, May 2, 1946, 227.
“Big money has too much”: HST to MET and MJT, January 23, 1946, HSTL.
“I’m going to give you the gun”: Quoted in Daniels, 325.
“We have a society”: The New York Times, May 22, 1946.
“That’s the way he is”: Ibid., May 26, 1946.
a “complicated”: J. C. Truman, author’s interview.
“This was the fifth day”: Ayers Diary, May 23, 1946, HSTL.
HST meeting with veterans: Washington Star, May 24, 1946.
“There were poignant scenes”: Newsweek, June 3, 1946.
Telegrams flooding the White House: White House Correspondence File, HSTL.
“At home those of us”: HST speech draft, undelivered, Clifford Papers, HSTL.
“In the manner of Lincoln”: Phillips, 115.
“I’d never been in the White House”: Clark Clifford, author’s interview.
“Alone of all the Truman entourage”: Quoted in Allen and Shannon, The Truman Merry-Go-Round, 61.
“The President is intelligent”: Clifford, with Holbrooke, Counsel to the President, 274.
“I come before the American people”: PP, HST, May 24, 1946, 274.
“He said they had verbally agreed”: Clifford interview, Daniels notes, HSTL.
“For the past two days”: PP, HST, May 25, 1946, 277.
“Spotlights ablaze”: New Republic, June 3, 1946.
“he could be tough”: The New York Times, May 26, 1946.
“Draft men who strike”: New Republic, June 3, 1946.
“I was the servant”: Film Collection, HSTL.
“Nothing about the Wallace affair”: George Elsey, author’s interview.
“If Mr. Slaughter is right”: PP, HST, July 18, 1946, 350.
HST’s health: Ross Diary, July 20, 1946, HSTL.
“Had the most awful day”: HST to MET and MJT, July 31, 1946, HSTL.
“She’s on the way out”: HST to EWT, August 9, 1946, Dear Bess, 530.
“Be good and be tough”: MT [Margaret Truman] to HST, June 14, 1946, Truman, Letters from Father, 142.
“I still have a number of bills”: HST to EWT, August 10, 1946, Dear Bess, 530.
“It’s just wonderful”: MacDonald, “President Truman’s Yacht,” Naval History, Winter 1990.
“See, he had no airs”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“He always plays a close hand”: Ted Marks, Oral History, HSTL.
“The Williamsburg”: MacDonald, “President Truman’s Yacht.”
“This is a paradise”: HST to MT, August 23, 1946, Truman, Letters from Father, 69.
“did all sorts of antics”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 366.
“The furniture was taking headers”: HST to EWT, September 2, 1946, Dear Bess, 534.
“Night before last”: HST to EWT, September 9, 1946, ibid., 535.
disliked living there: HST to EWT, September 3, 1946, ibid., 534.
“You better lock your door”: Truman, Letters from Father, 144.
“I’m in the middle”: HST to EWT, September 10, 1946, Dear Bess, 536.
HST press conference: PP, HST, September 12, 1946, 426–29.
“If the President”: Ross Diary, September 21, 1946, HSTL.
Wallace account: Wallace, 612–13.
tried to skim through it: HST Diary, September 17, 1946, Off the Record, 94.
Reston column: The New York Times, September 13, 1946.
“The criticism continued to mount”: Ross Diary, September 21, 1946, HSTL.
“I’m still having Henry Wallace trouble”: HST to MET and MJT, September 18, 1946, HSTL.
“Henry told me”: HST to EWT, September 20, 1946, Dear Bess, 539.
“Everything’s lovely”: Quoted in Acheson, 192.
“Henry is the most peculiar fellow”: HST to MET and MJT, September 20, 1946, HSTL.
“He wants to disband”: Quoted in Donovan, 227.
Byrnes telegram: Byrnes, Speaking Frankly, 241–42.
“so nice about it”: HST to EWT, September 21, 1946, Dear Bess, 539.
“I would rather be anything”: HST to MET and MJT, September 20, 1946, HSTL.
“No man in his right mind”: HST to MT, September 9, 1946, Truman, Letters from Father, 71.
“a liar, double-crosser”: HST to MT, September 17, 1946, ibid., 75.
“Sept. 26, 1918”: HST Diary, September 26, 1946, Off the Record, 98.
Ickes called him “stupid”: Time, September 30, 1946.
32 percent poll results: Gallup, The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 1935–1971, 604.
“Nothing on meat”: PP, HST, October 10, 1946, 447.
Truman continues electronic surveillance: Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover, 344.
“The shrill pitch of abuse”: Time, October 28, 1946.
he alone was formally dressed: Ibid.
“Here was a man”: Kilgore quoted in Steinberg, The Man from Missouri, 288.
“never seemed to have a problem”: Fields, My 21 Years in the White House, 187.
“We went to the Waldorf: HST to MT, October 26; 1946, Truman, Letters from Father,81.
Jefferson City stop: Time, November 11, 1946.
“Probably no President”: Phillips, 161.
“This is a serious course”: PP, HST, March 12, 1947, 179.
Lippmann on HST: Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century, 455.
“My dear Harry”: WC to HST, May 12, 1947, quoted in Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill. Never Despair, 326.
Acheson alone…was waiting: Acheson, Present at the Creation, 200.
“The captain with the mighty heart”: Ibid., dedication page.
“so fast they were falling all over”: Clark Clifford, author’s interview.
Lilienthal in rain: Lilienthal Journals, Vol. I, 54.
“the kind of grim gaiety”: Ibid., 118.
“Oh, God, it was the chance”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“now a free man”: Quoted in Time, April 7, 1947.
“I’m doing as I damn please”: HST to EWT, November 18, 1946, Dear Bess, 540.
“How can there be immunity”: Goldman, The Crucial Decade—And After, 29.
“He told me that he would”: HST Diary, January 1, 1947, in Ferrell, ed, Off the Record, 107.
“Bob is not austere”: Time, January 20, 1947.
HST walks to Union Station: Ayers Diary, January 6, 1947, HSTL.
“your appointment as Secretary of State”: Mosley, Marshall: Hero for Our Times, 390.
“I thought that the continuing harping”: Cray, General of the Army, 17.
Marshall did not possess the intellectual brilliance: Halle, The Cold War as History, 113.
“It was a striking and commanding force”: Acheson, 140–41.
exit office backwards: Paul Horgan, author’s interview.
“He never made any speeches”: Miller, Plain Speaking, 251.
“Sometimes he would sit”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 112.
“He was a man you could count on”: Quoted in Miller, 250.
“On the one hand”: Pogue, George C. Marshall. Statesman, 141–42.
“He gave a sense of purpose”: Bohlen, Witness to History, 259.
“Gentlemen, don’t fight”: Quoted in Pogue, 148.
Acheson found working with the general: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 159.
“The more I see and talk”: HST appointment sheet, February 18, 1947, Off the Record, 109.
“Marshall is a tower”: HST Diary, May 7, 1948, ibid., 134.
“I am surely lucky”: HST appointment sheet, February 18, 1947, ibid., 109.
“He no longer moans”: Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War,1941–1947, 347.
“His eye is clear”: Quoted in Time, January 27, 1947.
48 percent poll rating: Time, February 10, 1947.
“They brought back all the pageantry”: West, with Kotz, Upstairs at the White House, 91.
“The papers say today”: HST to MET and MJT, February 9, 1947, Off the Record, 108.
“I was somewhat nervous”: HST to MET and MJT, February 13, 1947, HSTL.
“despite all the denying”: West, 91.
Lilienthal nomination hearings: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 141–42.
“far from anger or temper”: Ibid., 141.
“I believe in”: Ibid., Appendix B, 646–48.
HST supports Lilienthal: Ibid., 144.
Taft opposes nomination: Time, February 24, 1947.
“Courage: What is it?”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 160.
“Now Mary, don’t you work too hard”: HST to MET and MJT, February 27, 1947, HSTL.
Lincoln McVeigh reported rumors: Memoirs, Vol. II, 99.
Greece a “ripe plum”: Ibid.
“little hope of independent survival”: Quoted in Donovan, Conflict and Crisis, 277.
“the only one in Government”: Gaddis, 346, note.
“It is not alarmist”: Quoted in Pogue, 164.
“The Soviet Union was playing”: Acheson, 219.
Vandenberg told the President: Ibid.
“and I expressed my emphatic”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 103.
Mexico City visit: Newsweek, March 17, 1947.
Clifford memo: appears in full in Krock, Memoirs, Appendix, 419–82.
“The impact of having it all”: George Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.
“If we go in”: Matt Connelly Papers, HSTL.
most important of his career: Ayers Diary, March 8, 1947, HSTL.
“I believe it must be”: Clifford, Counsel to the President, 136.
“too much rhetoric”: Bohlen, 261.
“If you take his advice”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 163.
“I want no hedging”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 105.
Truman Doctrine speech: PP, HST, March 12, 1947, 176–80.
“Well, I told my wife”: Time, March 24, 1947.
“A vague global policy”: Quoted in Steel, 438–39.
a “universal pattern”: Hartmann, Truman and the 80th Congress, 61.
would “of course” act: Acheson, 225.
“I guess the do-gooders”: Newsweek, March 24, 1947.
“If Mr. L is a communist”: HST, draft unreleased statement, March 1947, Off the Record, 113.
“no part of a communist”: Vandenberg, ed., The Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg, 355.
“the most important thing”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 166.
“[He is] very strongly anti-FBI”: Clark Clifford Papers, HSTL.
“The long tenure”: Martin, My First Fifty Years in Politics, 163.
“I am not worried”: PP, HST, April 3, 1947, 190.
“It was a political problem”: Bernstein, Loyalties, 195–98.
“The Republicans are now taking”: Frank McNaughton Papers, March 28, 1948, HSTL.
“If I can prevent”: HST to EW, September 27, 1947, Dear Bess, 550.
“Yes, it was terrible”: Joseph Rauh quoted in Bernstein, 196.
“I think it’s one of the proudest”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“There was much to be done”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 104.
“You don’t sit down”: Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.
Kennan leaves the room: Kennan, Memoirs, 328, note.
meeting with newspaper editors: PP, HST, April 7, 1947, 207–10.
“He was…an extremely thoughtful”: Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.
“When he went to lunch”: Quoted in Heller, The Truman White House, 46.
“Lots of times I would be”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“He spent virtually every waking”: Quoted in Heller, 119.
HST would like to have been history teacher: Ayers Diary, April 26, 1947, HSTL.
Clifford insists HST not be FDR: Markel, “Truman As the Crucial Third Year Opens.”
“In many ways President Truman”: Quoted in Heller, 120.
“It just has to be said”: Elsey, author’s interview.
“There is nothing in life”: Quoted in Farrar, Reluctant Servant, 195.
“priceless gift of vitality”: Acheson, 730.
the nation “again has leaders”: Hardeman and Bacon, Rayburn: A Biography, 328.
Marshall’s return of April 26, 1947: Memoirs, Vol. II, 112; Bohlen, 262–63; Kennan, 325.
The Soviets, it seemed: Marshall quoted in Pogue, 196.
“The patient is sinking”: Ibid., 200.
“Avoid trivia”: Kennan, 326.
Clayton memo: Pogue, 206.
Marshall speech: Mosley, 404–05.
“We grabbed the lifeline”: Quoted in Pogue, 217.
“play it straight”: Bohlen, 264.
part played by Acheson: Clark Clifford address, American Ditchley Foundation, April 5, 1984.
“anything that is sent up”: Clifford, author’s interview.
Halle’s comments on staff: Halle, 115–16.
“And you and I have both lived”: Quoted in Miller, 264.
“While he was responding”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 383.
“If she wants to be a warbler”: HST to MET and MJT, January 30, 1947, HSTL.
“She’s one nice girl”: HST to MET and MJT, February 19, 1947, HSTL.
Mrs. Thomas J. Strickler: Kansas City Star, April 18, 1946.
“Margaret went to New York”: HST to MET and MJT, January 30, 1947, HSTL. ’
“Here’s a little dough”: HST to MT, February 28, 1947, Truman, Letters from Father, 89.
Margaret Truman’s radio debut: Kansas City Star, March 7, 8, 9, and 17, 1947.
“Perhaps, sheer naivete”: Truman, Souvenir, 162.
“Wish I could go along”: HST to MT, May 14, 1947, Truman, Letters from Father, 92.
“Whenever she wakes up”: Time, June 2, 1947.
“When I say all Americans”: PP, HST, June 29, 1947, 311–13.
“I did not believe”: White, A Man Called White, 348.
“Almost without exception”: White, How Far the Promised Land, 74.
he meant “every word of it”: White, A Man Called White, 348.
“But I believe what I say”: HST to MJT, June 28, 1947, HSTL.
reminiscing to Bess: HST to EWT, July 26, 1947, Dear Bess, 549.
“Goodbye, Harry”: HST Diary, November 24, 1952, Off the Record, 275.
“Well, now she won’t have to suffer”: Steinberg, The Man from Missouri, 295.
“Everything had changed”: Truman, Souvenir, 174.
“I couldn’t hold a press conference”: PP, HST, August 5, 1948, 365.
“Someday you’ll be an orphan”: HST to MT, August 1, 1947, Truman, Letters from Father, 96.
“You should call your mamma”: HST to MT, December 3, 1947, Truman, Harry S. Truman, 404–05.
“I called up Daddy”: Truman, Souvenir, 191.
a hit as a vaudeville team: Daniels, “The Lady from Independence,” McCall’s, April 1949.
She would laugh so hard: Parks and Leighton, My Thirty Years Backstage at the White House, 28.
“She’s the only lady I know”: Randall Jessee quoted in the Dallas Morning News, February 9, 1976.
“Mrs. Truman came with great apologies”: Marquis Childs, author’s interview.
“the white gloves type”: Reathel Odum, author’s interview.
“They both had the gift”: Nixon, In the Arena, 231.
“one of the finest women”: Robert Lovett, Oral History, HSTL.
HST’s reliance on Bess: Quoted in Means, “What Three Presidents Say About Their Wives,” Good Housekeeping, August 1963.
Bess laughs at pretensions: Daniels, “The Lady from Independence.”
“And then…the minute the doors”: Lindy Boggs, author’s interview.
“Propriety was a much stronger influence”: Alice Acheson, author’s interview.
“Just keep on smiling”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 265.
“She didn’t want to discuss”: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.
Bess Truman questionnaire: Time, November 10, 1947.
“She seems to think Harry”: Asbury, “Meet Harry’s Boss, Bess,” Collier’s, February 2, 1949.
Bess interested in Monroe administration: Daniels, “The Lady from Independence.”
“Mrs, Truman was no fussier”: West, 83.
“might as well have been in Independence”: J. B. West, author’s interview.
“And he listened to her”: Ibid.
Bess’s emotional separation: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 272.
“Suppose Miss Lizzie”: HST to EN, June 22, 1949, Off the Record, 157.
“Marshall and Lovett”: HST to EWT, September 23, 1947, Dear Bess, 549–50.
“Yesterday was one of the most hectic”: HST to EW, September 30, 1947, ibid., 550–51.
“Twenty-nine years!”: HST to EWT, June 28, 1948, Dear Bess, 554.
Greta Kempton portrait: Greta Kempton, author’s interview; Kempton letter to the author, June 20, 1984; Kempton, “Painting the Truman Family,” Missouri Historical ’ Review, April 1973; “An Interview with Greta Kempton,” Whistlestop, Vol. 15, no. 2, 1987.
a handwritten note from Churchill: Gilbert, Winston Churchill. Never Despair, 351.
“In all the history of the world”: HST speech draft, undelivered, April 1948, Off the Record, 133.
Eisenhower again declined: Donovan, Conflict and Crisis, 338.
“Mr. Truman was a realist”: Quoted in Phillips, The Truman Presidency, 197, note.
“give everything”: Ayers Diary, January 19, 1948, HSTL.
“Aside from the impossible”: HST to MET and MJT, November 14, 1947, HSTL.
“President Truman did not want to run”: Quoted in Donovan, 338.
“blessed with a tough hide”: Phillips, 140.
“The greatest ambition”: Quoted in Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 9.
“get into the fight”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 171–72.
“What I wanted to do personally”: Ibid., 174.
speech before Congress: PP, HST, January 7, 1948, 1.
message to Congress: Ibid., February 2, 1948, 121.
press conference on civil rights: Ibid., February 5, 1948.
black Democrats at rear table: Time, March 1, 1948.
“But my very stomach turned”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 429.
Privately could speak of “niggers”: Rex Scouten, author’s interview; Miller, Plain Speaking, 195.
“Harry is no more”: Jonathan Daniels interview with Mary Jane Truman, October 2, 1949, HSTL.
“The main difficulty”: HST to Ernest W. Roberts, August 18, 1948, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 146.
murder of four blacks: To Secure These Rights: Report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights, 22.
“The wonderful, wonderful development”: Clark Clifford, author’s interview.
“strike for new high ground”: Quoted in Ross, 19.
Clifford on golf course: David Acheson, author’s interview.
Clifford decided not to tell HST: Clifford, author’s interview.
“This is, as you know”: James Rowe, Jr., to William Sand, July 8, 1971.
“In the Roosevelt and Truman years”: George Elsey, author’s interview.
“The Politics of 1948”: Memorandum by James H. Rowe, Jr., Miscellaneous Historical Documents, HSTL.
“We were telling the President”: James H. Rowe, Jr., author’s interview.
HST kept memo in bottom drawer: Ibid.
“To a politician of Harry Truman’s”: Washington Post, undated, Vertical Files, HSTL.
Hill and Sparkman call for HST’s resignation: Ayers Diary, March 23, 1948, HSTL.
instant disapproval: Washington Star, May 25, 1965.
“Back Porch Harry”: Time, January 26, 1948.
Jefferson himself: PP, HST, April 15, 1948, 217–18.
Washington Star: Donovan, 351.
“The awnings you will remember”: HST to MJT, January 30, 1948, HSTL.
“Had to be renewed”: HST to George Rothwell Brown, January 20, 1948, HSTL.
danger of second floor falling: Ayers Diary, March 6, 1948, HSTL.
Ross “terrifically upset”: Ibid., February 6, 1948, HSTL.
“You can guard yourself: Ibid., December 30, 1947, HSTL.
his most difficult dilemma: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 416.
“humanly possible”: Chicago Tribune, April 15, 1948.
“could not be allowed to continue”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 138.
“definitely and preeminently”: Harrison quoted in Eban, An Autobiography, 59.
“would they be welcomed”: Ibid.
Niles sensed HST’s sympathy with Jews: Steinberg, The Man from Missouri, 304.
“I’m a man of no importance”: Steinberg, “Mr. Truman’s Mystery Man,” Saturday Evening Post, December 24, 1949.
“just politics”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“And his own reading”: Weisberger, interview with Clark Clifford, American Heritage, December 28, 1976.
justice not oil: HST quoted in Wallace, The Price of Vision, 607.
no wish to send American troops: PP, HST, August 6, 1945, 228.
“What I am trying to do”: HST to Joseph H. Ball, November 24, 1945, unsent, HSTL.
“The action of some of our American Zionists”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 420.
he wished more people: Donovan, 319
“I am not a New Yorker”: Quoted in Wallace, 605
“Terror and Silver”: HST Memorandum to David Niles, May 13, 1947, HSTL.
“Jesus Christ couldn’t please them”: Quoted in Wallace, 607.
“I’m so tired”: HST to MJT, February 11, 1948, HSTL.
not a great many Arab constituents: Donovan, 322.
Forrestal thought less of HST: Forrestal Diaries, 309, 363.
“Kaplan sells shirts”: Quoted in Donovan, 317.
“And when the day came”: Washington Star and Daily News, December 31, 1972.
“carelessly pro-Zionist”: Jenkins, Truman, 116.
Kennan on Palestine: Pogue, George C. Marshall: Statesman. 356.
Henderson worried about consequences: The New York Times, March 26, 1986.
“Some White House men”: Daniels, The Man of Independence, 317.
“Look here, Loy”: Loy Henderson, Oral History, HSTL.
“conflicting objectives”: Rusk, As I Saw It, 147–48.
“I know how Marshall feels”: Quoted in Daniels, 318.
“We went for it”: Clark Clifford interview with Jonathan Daniels, October 26, 1949.
Eddie Jacobson account: Washington Post, May 6, 1973.
“he [Truman] and he alone”: Ibid.
Jewish delegation swept up: The New York Times, November 30, 1947.
“There were Jews in tears”: Eban, 99.
“a triumphant vindication”: The New York Times, November 30, 1947.
turning point in history: New York Herald-Tribune, November 30, 1947.
“one of the few great acts”: Ibid., December 1, 1947.
“push the Jews”: Weisberger interview with Clark Clifford, American Heritage, December 28, 1976.
Forrestal report to HST: Forrestal Diaries, March 4, 1948, 386.
“Things look black”: HST to MT, March 3, 1948, Truman, Letters from Father, 108.
“a new tenseness”: Forrestal Diaries, 387.
“lifted me right out”: Smith, Lucius D. Clay, 466–67.
to move atomic bombs: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. I, 302.
“The Jewish pressure”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 160.
Niles grew so emotional: Letter from Joseph Alsop to Martin Sommers, June 1, 1948, LC.
either “give in”: Ibid.
“So I called him ‘Cham’ ”: Film Collection, HSTL.
They had met secretly: Memoirs, Vol. II, 161.
“You can bank on us”: Daniels, The Man of Independence, 318.
“I was extremely happy”: Weizmann, Trial and Error, 459.
Kennan’s paper: Donovan, 370.
“playing with fire”: Forrestal Diaries, 373.
“the political situation”: Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone, 127.
no “bending”: Pogue, 361.
“On five occasions”: Clark Clifford interview with Jonathan Daniels, October 26, 1949.
“pro-Arab”: Loy Henderson, Oral History, HSTL.
“I pointed out that the views”: Ibid.
“Oh, hell, I’m leaving”: Ibid.
Frank Goldman call to Jacobson: Kansas City Times, May 13, 1965.
Connelly warned Jacobson: Adler, Roots in a Moving Stream, 210.
“always had a brother’s interest”: Kansas City Times, May 13, 1965.
HST suddenly tense: Ibid.
“In all the years of our friendship”: “Two Presidents and a Haberdasher—1948,” American Jewish Archives, April 1968.
“disrespectful and mean”: Ibid.
“Harry, all your life”: Ibid.
HST reaction to Jacobson: Ibid.
Jacobson has drink: Kansas City Times, May 13, 1965.
“It is the most serious situation”: HST to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 16, 1948, Off the Record, 126.
“It was better to do that”: Ayers Diary, March 16, 1948, HSTL.
Joint Session speech: PP, HST, March 17, 1948, 182–86.
“And when he left my office”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 161.
HST and Weizmann reached “understanding”: Ibid.
“A land of milk and honey”: The New York Times, March 21, 1948.
“whimsical and cynical action”: Letter from Tucson Jewish Community Council, undated, White House Correspondence File, HSTL.
“vacillating”: Letter from Democratic Council, undated, Whittier, California, White House Correspondence File, HSTL.
“This change can mean”: Judge P. Tinley to HST, March 25, 1948, HSTL.
“Oh, how could you stoop”: Samuel A. Sloan to HST, March 19, 1948, HSTL.
“Black Friday”: “Two Presidents and a Haberdasher—1948.”
“There wasn’t one”: Ibid.
Weizmann certain what HST had meant: Adler, 211.
Jacobson must not forget: “Two Presidents and a Haberdasher—1948.”
“This morning I find”: HST Diary, March 20, 1948, Off the Record, 127.
“the striped pants boys”: HST to MJT, March 21, 1948, HSTL.
“Truman was in his office”: Clark Clifford interview with Jonathan Daniels, October 26, 1949; Daniels interview notes, HSTL.
“The President’s statement”: Ayers Diary, March 20, 1948, HSTL.
“the wisest course”: The News York Times, March 21, 1948.
“This gets us nowhere”: Quoted in Steinberg, The Man from Missouri, 307.
“Send final draft”: Foreign Relations of the United States. Vol. V: The Far East, South Asia and Africa, 645.
“striped pants conspirators”: HST to MJT, March 21, 1948, HSTL.
“prejudice the character”: PP, HST, March 25, 1948, 190, 192.
Eleanor Roosevelt resignation: Lash, 130.
“The choice for our people”: Weizmann, 474.
“very strongly”: “Two Presidents and a Haberdasher—1948.”
“the President looked worn”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 320.
“It is a scream”: HST to MJT, April 8, 1948, HSTL.
Gallup Poll: Gallup, The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 1935–71, 727.
“When he [Truman] vetoed”: The New York Times, April 4, 1948.
“You will be addressing all of us”: Weisberger interview with Clifford.
“I want you to know”: George C. Marshall to HST, May 8, 1948, HSTL.
Marshall speech: As reported in Frank McNaughton Papers, December 18, 1948, HSTL.
May 12, 1948, meeting: Clay, General of the Army, 658, 661.
“As I talked”: Address by Clark Clifford, American Ditchley Foundation, April, 5, 1984; Clark Clifford, author’s interview.
“This is just straight politics”: Ibid.
“General, he is here”: Ibid.
“I had really prepared!”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“everything this country should represent”: Ibid.
“Behold, I have set the land”: Clifford, letter to the author.
“No matter what the State Department”: Clark Clifford interview with Jonathan Daniels, October 26, 1949, HSTL.
“the sharpest rebuke ever”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“the great one of the age”: HST appointment sheet, February 18, 1947, Off the Record, 109.
“That brought the meeting”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“righteous goddamn Baptist”: Clark Clifford interview with Jonathan Daniels, October 26, 1949, HSTL.
“didn’t know his ass”: Ibid.
“That was rough as a cob”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“I will cross that bridge”: PP, HST, May 13, 1948, 253.
“Marshall was the greatest asset”: Clifford, author’s interview.
Lovett would have to persuade: Ibid.
Marshall called HST: Ibid.
“That is all we need”: Ibid.
“This is very unusual”: Ibid.
name of new country left blank: Ibid.
reaction of American delegation: The New York Times, May 16, 1948.
“temporary, unofficial ambassador”: Adler, 212.
“There is a great deal to be said”: Washington Star, May 16, 1948.
“The difficulty with many career”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 165.
“God put you in your mother’s womb”: Quoted in Steinberg, 308.
“In my opinion”: Henderson, Oral History, HSTL.
Marshall never spoke to Clifford again: Pogue, 377.
“I told him that it was”: Isaacson and Thomas, The Wise Men, 433,
Crestline, Ohio: PP, HST, June 4, 1948, 284.
Omaha stop: Ayers Diary, June 7, 1948, HSTL.
“I don’t give a damn”: Edward McKim, Oral History, HSTL.
“President Truman was at his best”: Omaha Morning World-Herald, June 8, 1948.
“walled-in”: Krock, Memoirs, 242.
“It almost overwhelms me”: PP, HST, June 6, 1948, 288.
“My goodness!”: Ibid., June 8, 1948, 303.
Butte, Montana, stop: Idaho Daily Statesman, June 9, 1948.
“I am sorry I had gone to bed”: New York Sun, June 9, 1948.
“down to Berkeley”: Donovan, 400.
“They told me at a little town”: HST to MJT, June 8, 1948, HSTL.
Carey Airport gaffe: Montana Standard, June 9, 1948.
“I have been in politics”: PP, HST, June 8, 1948, 301.
a many-versed song: Kansas City Star, March 23, 1969.
“a spectacle of himself”: Steinberg, 312.
Eugene, Oregon, stop: PP, HST, June 11, 1948, 329.
“about two acres of people”: Ibid., June 14, 1948, 348.
“You know, this Congress”: Ibid., June 10, 1948, 314.
“blackguarding Congress”: Redding, Inside the Democratic Party, 178.
telegrams to mayors: Ibid.
Berkeley-commencement address: PP, HST, June 12, 1948, 336–40,
“Our policy will continue”: Ibid., 340.
“they clung to the roofs”: Los Angeles Times, June 15, 1948.
HST jabbed his forefinger: Donovan, 401.
June 18 return to Washington: Time, June 28, 1948.
a “gone goose”: Ibid.
Dewey acceptance speech: Time, July 5, 1948.
“We stay in Berlin”: Forrestal Diaries, 454–55.
“We stay in Berlin”: Pogue, 301.
“we were nose to nose”: Bradley and Blair, A General’s Life, 481.
“had no direct role whatever”: George Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.
“A ball game or two”: HST Diary, June 18, 1948, Off the Record, 140.
“I am not a quitter”: Krock, 241.
“You have the choice”: Ickes quoted in Donovan, 389.
decided it was time for Eisenhower: Hartmann, Truman and the 80th Congress, 186.
Eisenhower did not want nomination: Steinberg, 309–10.
Jimmy Roosevelt wired: Goulden, The Best Years, 1945–1950, 381.
“a hard and possibly losing fight”: Ross, 113.
“I am simply aghast”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 378–79.
“All right, let him go”: Ayers Diary, July 6, 1948, HSTL.
“double-crossers all”: HST Diary, July 6, 1948, Off the Record, 141.
“I don’t think he would be a candidate”: HST to James W. Gerard, April 27, 1948, HSTL.
Krock story: Krock, Memoirs, 242.
Pepper proposing Eisenhower draft: Newsweek, July 19, 1948.
“I wanted to tell you”: Krock, 243.
“In a telephone conference”: Ibid.
“final and complete”: Newsweek, July 19, 1948.
“Truman, Harry Truman”: Goldman, The Crucial Decade—and After, 83.
“no time for politics as usual”: Ross, 115.
“None of us”: Phillips, 218.
’We got the wrong rigs”: The New York Times, July 12, 1948.
“You could cut the gloom”: Barkley, That Reminds Me, 200.
Douglas wished to stay on Court: HST Diary, July 12, 1948, Off the Record, 141.
“I stuck my neck”: Ayers Diary, July 13, 1948, HSTL.
“But if memory does not betray”: Redding, 188–89.
If Barkley was what convention wanted: Newsweek, July 26, 1948.
Barkley gone to bed: HST Diary, July 13, 1948, Off the Record, 142.
Barkley never told HST he wanted to be VP: Ross, 119.
“I don’t want it passed”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 12.
“Talking about the vice-presidency”: Ayers Diary, July 13, 1948, HSTL.
“A Negro alternate from St. Louis”: HST Diary, July 13, 1948, Off the Record, 142.
“sellout” to states’ rights: Ross, 121.
“We were inherently stronger”: Douglas, In the Fullness of Time, 137.
“Young man, that’s just what”: Goulden, 385.
“There are those who say”: Ross, 125.
southern “walkout” would destroy: Hardeman and Bacon, Rayburn: A Biography,337.
as “crackpots”: HST Diary, July 14, 1948, Off the Record, 143.
“No privacy sure enough”: Ibid.
“Hard to hear”: Ibid.
“a very agreeable visit”: Barkley, 203.
“an interesting and instructive evening”: HST Diary, July 14, 1948, Off the Record, 143.
“hot, horrible night”: Tom Evans, Oral History, HSTL.
“They did what you do”: Elsey, author’s interview.
“Harry Truman’s a goddamn liar”: Hardeman and Bacon, 338.
“Senator Barkley and I”: PP, HST, July 15, 1948, 406.
“Our task is to fill”: Smith, 500,
“Now it is time for us”: PP, HST, July 15, 1948, 406.
“Everybody knows that I recommended”: Ibid., 408.
“He walked out there”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“They sensed”: Lerner, Actions and Passions, 233.
“Of course, it was politics”: Daniels, 356.
“devilishly astute”: Martin, My First Fifty Years in Politics, 178.
“Arrived in Washington”: HST Diary, July 15, 1948, Off the Record, 144.
“to reduce us to the status”: Ross, 131.
“the segregation of the races”: Ibid.
“but Truman really means it”: Steinberg, 315.
“on the basis of interest”: Ross, 158.
“We stand against the kings”: Time, August 2, 1948.
Forrestal and atomic bomb: HST to EWT, July 23, 1948, Dear Bess, 555.
“It is hot and humid”: HST Diary, July 19, 1948, Off the Record, 145.
“We’ll stay in Berlin”: Ibid.
“If we wished to remain”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 124.
a “very big operation”: Davidson, The Berlin Blockade, 105.
“We were proud of our Air Force”: Quoted in Tusa, The Berlin Airlift, 167.
“But every expert knows”: Quoted in Davidson, 125.
“My muttonhead Secretary”: HST to EWT, July 23, 1948, Dear Bess, 555.
“There is considerable political”: Memorandum by James H. Rowe, Jr., Miscellaneous Historical Documents, HSTL.
“I am going through a terrible”: HST to WC, July 10, 1948, Truman, Letters from Father, 110.
“The President greeted us rather solemnly”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 388–89.
“This is no time”: Ibid., 391.
“If what worried the President”: Ibid.
Truman held Forrestal: Forrestal Diaries, 461.
seemed lately unable to “take hold”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 386.
“I went down the river”: HST to MJT, July 26, 1948, HSTL.
“No, we’re not going to give”: Quoted in Donovan, 411.
“They sure are in a stew”: HST to EWT, July 23, 1948, Dear Bess, 66.
“For a number of years”: Phillips, 369.
“a ‘red herring’ “: PP, HST, August 5, 1948, 433.
“Entirely”: Ibid., August 12, 1948, 438.
floor of Margaret’s room: HST to MJT, August 10, 1948, HSTL.
“Can you imagine?”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 329.
“Margaret’s sitting room”: HST to MJT, August 10, 1948, HSTL.
“old Abe’s bed”: Ibid.
“It will be the greatest”: HST to MJT, October 5, 1948, HSTL.
“There were no deep-hid schemes”: Ross, “How Truman Did It,” Collier’s, December 24, 1948.
“It’s going to be tough”: Ibid.
“I have a terrible feeling”: HST Diary, September 13, 1948, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 149.
“Every grade crossing”: The New Yorker, October 9, 1948.
“I’m going to give ’em hell”: Time, September 27, 1948.
Gallup Poll: Gallup, The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 1935–1971, 757.
“My whole inclination”: Time, September 13, 1948.
“Cadillac Square”: Matt Connelly, Oral History, HSTL.
“You remember the big boom”: PP, HST, September 18, 1948, 504.
plow the straightest furrows: Ibid., 506.
“You stayed at home in 1946”: Ibid., 501.
“Understand me, when I speak”: Ibid., September 20, 1948, 518.
“Selfish men have always”: Ibid., September 21, 1948, 531.
“sharp speeches”: Donovan, Conflict and Crisis, 425.
These “little speeches”: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”
“Oh, I wish my grandfather”: PP, HST, September 21, 1948, 531.
“They tell me [he said at Mojave]”: Ibid., September 23, 1948, 554.
“I’m here on a serious mission”: Ibid., September 22, 1948, 544.
“In 1946, you know”: Ibid., September 20, 1948, 512, 514.
“Give ’em hell”: Clark Clifford, author’s interview.
“I never gave anybody hell”: The New York Times, December 27, 1972.
“It will be a picture”: The New Yorker, October 9, 1948.
Los Angeles speech: PP, HST, September 24, 1948, 559.
“We are not quite holding our own”: Tusa, The Berlin Airlift, 235.
“That’s good”: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”
a “Research Division”: George Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.
“He gives every appearance”: Clifford, author’s interview.
the “evil forces”: Time, October 11, 1948.
HST never mentioned Dewey: Clifford, author’s interview.
“If you wanted anything”: The New Yorker, October 16, 1948.
“sort of rube reputation”: Daniels, The Man of Independence, 358.
Description of Dewey campaign: The New Yorker, October 16, 1948.
“Tonight we enter upon a campaign”: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 193.
“We cannot win without”: Quoted in Donovan, 420.
“Smile, governor”: Smith, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times, 26.
“You have to know Mr. Dewey well”: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 32.
“like a man who has been”: The New Yorker, October 16, 1948.
“It is written in the stars”: Smith, 17.
carnal relations: Ibid., 34.
“When you’re leading”: Ibid., 30.
“We always asked them”: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 166.
“How long is Dewey”: Life, October 25, 1948.
“get down in the gutter”: Quoted in Smith, 515.
“Isn’t it harder in politics?”: New Republic, November 1, 1948.
“We resurrected the president’s”: Sullivan, The Bureau, 44.
“The tragic fact is”: Time, October 4, 1948.
“We’ll have no thought police”: Quoted in Smith, 508.
“We hit Salt Lake City”: Quoted in Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 207.
“Then we went into Texas”: PP, HST, September 29, 1948, 629.
“He is good on the back”: Quoted in Hardeman and Bacon, Rayburn: A Biography, 340.
“they’d shoot Truman”: Quoted in Steinberg, 325.
“an eloquence close to”: Daniels, 362.
“Our government is made up”: PP, HST, September 26, 1948, 210.
“I am going over to Bonham”: Ibid., September 27, 1948, 591.
“So in making their speeches”: Ibid., 589.
“Some things are worth fighting for”: Ibid., 593, 595.
“They came in droves”: Truman, Souvenir, 231.
“I know every man, woman, and child”: Hardeman and Bacon, 341.
“Shut the door, Beauford”: Quoted in Truman, Harry S. Truman, 37.
“A great many honors”: Baruch, The Public Years, 399.
“one jump ahead of the sheriff’: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”
“There is nothing like that”: PP, HST, September 30, 1948, 650.
“Now, whatever you do”: Ibid., October 1, 1948, 664.
“The early morning haze”: Quoted in Goulden, The Best Years 1945–1950, 399.
“We made about a hundred and forty”: HST to MJT, October 5, 1948, HSTL.
“classic unities of politics”: Redding, Inside the Democratic Party, 202.
“Another hell of a day”: HST Diary, September 14, 1948, Off the Record, 149.
selections from Dewey speeches: Goulden, 400.
HST campaign movie: Redding, 254.
“He paused dramatically”: Barkley, That Reminds Me, 204.
“If we could only get Stalin”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 215.
“every possible precaution”: Ibid., 216.
“There is much confusion”: Ayers Diary, October 6–7, 1948, HSTL.
“He got up and went out”: Daniels, 29.
“If Harry Truman would just”: Goulden, 414.
Dewey with blind drawn: Smith, 536.
“I grew up on a farm”: PP, HST, October 11, 1948, 737.
If HST called Bess the Boss; Truman, Bess W. Truman, 330.
“If you don’t want to go”: PP, HST, October 11, 1948, 736–37.
Willard, Ohio, stop: Willard Times; Joseph Dush, author’s interview; materials supplied by Harlene Staptf Palkuti.
“I have had the most wonderful”: PP, HST, October 11, 1948, 740.
“I have lived a long time”: Ibid., 743, 747.
“And there it was!”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“So I walked in”: Ibid.
“I was with Truman”: Douglas, In the Fullness of Time, 138.
“I just wonder tonight”: PP, HST, October 12, 1948, 760.
“Now, I call on all liberals”: Ibid., October 13, 1948, 774.
“a lot of surprised pollsters”: Time, October 25, 1948.
“I think he’s doing pretty well”: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 215.
“The only way to handle Truman”: Patterson, Mr. Republican. A Biography of Robert A. Taft, 424–25.
“That’s the first lunatic”: Time, October 25, 1948.
Boston Post editorial: October 27, 1948.
“If you’re winning”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“Strain seemed to make him”: Daniels, 361.
“He was not putting on”: Elsey, author’s interview, and Oral History, HSTL.
“For years afterward”: Clifford, Oral History, HSTL.
“We’ve got them on the run”: HST to MJT, October 20, 1948, HSTL.
“The airlift will be continued”: Tusa, 245.
“Say you don’t look so good!”: PP, HST, October 23, 1948, 839.
“The newspapers had convinced them”: Douglas, 138.
attack on Dewey: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 235.
“An element of desperation”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“They have scattered reckless abuse”: Smith, 536.
“The confetti, ticker-tape”: The New York Times, October 29, 1948.
“There is one place”: Quoted in Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 237.
“Such a weak and vacillating”: Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone, 153.
“There never has been a campaign”: The New York Times, November 1, 1948.
“I became President”: PP, HST, October 30, 1948, 934.
“pullet poll”: Life, November 15, 1948.
“Were it not for all”: Ayers Diary, November 1, 1948, HSTL.
“We all, of course, stayed awake”: Gerard McAnn, author’s interview.
Maloney and his men: Smith, 40.
“We waited and waited”: Sue Gentry, author’s interview.
“We couldn’t believe it”: Ibid.
“What a night”: Truman, Souvenir, 242.
“And all of a sudden”: Jim Rowley, author’s interview.
“his first case of nerves”: Letter from Jerome K. Walsh to Morris J. Ernst, undated, HSTL.
“He just seemed the same old”: Lyman Field, author’s interview.
“He displayed neither tension”: Letter from Jerome K. Walsh to Morris J. Ernst, undated, HSTL.
“Thank you, thank you”: Time, November 8, 1948.
Bankhead telegram: Goulden, 421.
“I think the mistake was”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“shook the bones”: Baltimore Sun, November 7, 1948.
“The farm vote switched”: Thomas Dewey to Henry Luce, undated, L. C.
“You’ve got to give the little man”: Vandenberg, Private Papers, 460.
Taft comment: Steinberg, 332.
Republican Policy Committee Report: December 17, 1948, HSTL.
“Labor Did It”: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 255.
“The bear got us”: Smith, 543.
“Far from costing Dewey”: Quoted in Phillips, 250–51.
“I couldn’t have been more wrong”: Life, November 15, 1948.
“What’s the matter with that fellow”: The New York Times, November 28, 1948.
“I kept reading”: Goldman, The Crucial Decade, 87.
“But when voting time came”: Ibid.
“the common man’s man”: Life, November 15, 1948.
“It seemed to have been”: Donovan, 438.
“There was personal humiliation”: New Republic, November 15, 1948.
“There has been a danger”: Ayers Diary, November 4, 1948, HSTL.
Luce memo: November 11, 1948, Time-Warner archives.
“His personality was against him”: Henry Luce memorandum, November 5, 1948, Ibid.
“I think the press”: T. S. Matthews memorandum to Henry Luce, November 4, 1948, Ibid.
“Of course, we did not intentionally”: J. J. Thorndike, Jr., memorandum to Henry Luce, November 5, 1948, Ibid.
90 percent of the credit: Hardeman and Bacon, 342.
“You have put over”: George C. Marshall to HST, November 4, 1948, HSTL.
“I think that Harry Truman grew”: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”
“I think Dewey’s whole campaign”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“no desire to crow”: HST to the Washington Post, November 6, 1948, HSTL.
“Clearly he was conscious”: Washington Evening Star, January 20, 1949.
“his day of days”: Truman, Souvenir, 255.
“It is the President’s desire”: Seale, The President’s House, Vol. II, 1027.
“I have the job”: Washington Post, January 20, 1949; Time, January 31, 1949.
State of the Union message: PP, HST, January 5, 1949, 1.
H. V. Kaltenborn impersonation: Ibid., January 19, 1949, 110.
“I was not in any way elated”: Ibid.
“Wonderful, wonderful”: Washington Post, January 21, 1949.
Battery D reunion: Washington Evening Star, January 20, 1949.
prayer service: Washington Post, January 21, 1949.
inaugural address: PP, HST, January 20, 1949, 112–16.
“How strange”: Washington Evening Star, January 20, 1949.
“The clear sunlight”: The New York Times, January 21, 1949.
“At the reviewing stand”: J. B. West, author’s interview.
“There never was a country”: Payne, Report on America, p. 3.
“The parade was the most fun”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 448.
“the fellow who was having”: Washington Post, January 22, 1949.
“It can almost be stated”: Bohlen, Witness to History, 284.
“fifty percent better”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 527.
“He looks more relaxed”: Ibid., 463–64.
“He was great down in Key West!”: James Rowley, Jr., author’s interview.
“The President is as close to being”: Time, May 16, 1949.
“He won’t take hold”: Lilienthal Journals, Vol. II, 386.
“No commentator”: Time, March 7, 1949.
HST fair with Forrestal: Forrestal Diaries, 551.
“The best boss I have ever known”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 345.
“a man who, while he reflects”: Forrestal Diaries, 529.
“the mess we are in”: Eisenhower Diaries, 152–53.
his “baffled” look: Washington Post, January 21, 1949.
Forrestal was insane: Pearson, Diaries, 1949–1959, 42.
“a very sick man”: Krock, Memoirs, 253–57.
Secret Service Report: March 31, 1949, HSTL.
“out of his mind”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 506.
Bess was “terribly shaken”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 346.
25,000 Pentagon employees: Time, June 6, 1949.
“Unwittingly”: Bradley and Blair, A General’s Life, 503.
“in high good humor”: Time, April 25, 1949.
Cardinal Spellman: Goldman, The Crucial Decade—and After, 130–31.
“Hysteria finally died down”: PP, HST, June 16, 1949, 294.
“The military situation”: Acheson, Present at the Creation, 305.
morning press conference: PP, HST, August 4, 1949, 408.
“The unfortunate but inescapable”: Acheson, 303.
“his general’s stars”: Time, August 22, 1949.
“I do these people a courtesy”: Dunar, The Truman Scandals and the Politics of Morality, 70.
“an expression of friendship”: Time, September 12, 1949.
Was it true, asked McCarthy: Ibid.
“Ross and I”: Ayers Diary, August 12, 1949, HSTL.
“After all I am”: Abel, The Truman Scandals, 42–43.
“I think that Mr. Truman”: Barkley, That Reminds Me, 212.
When Vaughan offered to resign: Dunar, 64.
“a whole box of trouble”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 569.
“as if I frequently found him”: Ibid.
“The President was reading a copy”: Ibid., 570–71.
“I believe the American people”: PP, HST, September 23, 1949, 485.
“We keep saying”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 577.
“this grim thing”: Ibid., 584.
“We can never tell”: HST to EWT, June 29, 1949, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 158.
“Never in my wildest dreams”: HST to EN, September 8, 1949, ibid., 163–64.
rats in the White House: Floyd Boring and Rex Scouten, author’s interviews.
“Very discreet”: West, with Kotz, Upstairs at the White House, 111.
“Had dinner by myself”: HST Diary, November 1, 1949, Off the Record, 168–69.
“a fine man”: HST to Jonathan Daniels, February 26, 1950, unsent, ibid., 174.
“It was a great thing”: Dean Acheson, Oral History, HSTL.
Acheson descriptions: Time, February 28, 1949; The New Yorker, November 12 and 19, 1949; The New York Times, October 13, 1971; Clark Clifford and George Elsey, author’s interviews.
“You owe it to Truman”: Isaacson and Thomas, The Wise Men, 547.
“a peculiar organization”: HST to David H. Morgan, January 28, 1952, Off the Record, 235.
“At lunch at the Capitol”: Acheson, 107.
“You know all of us”: HST to EN, September 24, 1950, Off the Record, 194.
“deeply loving and tender nature”: Sevareid, Conversations with Eric Sevareid, 73.
“Well, this is the kind of person”: Ibid.
“It was good of you to see us off”: HST to Dean Acheson, November 28, 1949, HSTL.
“And then he was so fair”: Sevareid, 74.
“He was not afraid of the competition”: Acheson, 732–33.
“not pretending to be better”: McLellan, Dean Acheson, 19.
“Today you hear much talk”: Ibid., 173–74.
“Acheson is a gentleman”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 565.
“I told Kennan”: McLellan, 176.
“How can you persuade”: Isaacson and Thomas, 487.
“The day will come”: Time, January 23, 1950.
“Today, by the grace of God”: PP, HST, January 4, 1950, 3.
“I should like to make it clear”: Acheson, 360.
“I think anyone who has known”: Ibid.
“This newspaper has felt”: New York Herald-Tribune, January 27, 1950.
“wonderful about it”: Acheson, 360.
“I look at that fellow”: Quoted in Goldman, 125.
“blow them off the face of the earth”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 585.
“Like a patient”: Time, January 30, 1950.
an “atmosphere of excitement”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 628–29.
“eloquently and forcefully”: Acheson, 349.
“We must protect the President”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 630.
he felt he must express: Ibid., 632.
“Can the Russians?”: Quoted in Donovan, Tumultuous Years, 156.
“It is part of my responsibility”: PP, HST, January 31, 1950, 138.
“I hope I was wrong”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 633–34.
“General annihiliation beckons”: Quoted in Goldman, 137.
“How much are we going”: Weinstein, Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, 507.
“The air was so charged”: Block, The Herblock Book, 144.
205 “known communists”: Reeves, Life and Times of Joe McCarthy, 224, 237.
“When this pompous diplomat”: Bernstein and Matusow, eds., The Truman Administration, 407.
“I will not turn my back”: Washington Post, June 25, 1950.
“keep talking and if one case”: Reeves, 263.
“top Russian espionage agent”: Time, April 3, 1950.
“In an age of atomic energy”: Krock, In the Nation: 1932–1966, 145–46.
“One of the happiest sessions”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 635.
“You see everybody”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 351.
“What has made me so jittery”: Ibid.
“a ballyhoo artist”: Donovan, 166.
plunged to 37 percent: Time, April 24, 1950.
Little White House press conference: PP, HST, March 30, 1950, 232–38.
Federal Bar Association speech: Ibid, April 24, 1950, 269.
“I think our friend”: Quoted in Donovan, 170.
Maragaret Chase Smith: Acheson, 365.
the “lure in power”: HST Diary, April 16, 1950, Off the Record, 177.
“I am not a candidate”: Ibid.
NSC-68: Acheson, 374.
“bludgeon the mass mind”: Ibid.
“with us for a long, long time”: PP, HST, May 9, 1950, 335.
“a grand visit”: HST to Stanley Woodward, June 24, 1950, Off the Record, 184.
“We would not build”: PP, HST, June 24, 1950.
nation’s worst air disaster: The New York Times, June 25, 1950.
“There are lots of places”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 25, 1950.
Dean Acheson call: Memoirs, Vol. II, 332.
“My first reaction”: Ibid.
“It would appear”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 334.
“Dad took it”: Truman, Souvenir, 275.
departure so swift: Memoirs, Vol. II, 332.
Bess looking as she had the night FDR died: The New York Times, June 26, 1950.
“By God, I am going to”: Quoted in Donovan, 197.
“I remembered how”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 332–33
Rusk had seen no likelihood of war: Rusk, As I Saw It, 161.
Blair House meeting: Memoirs, Vol. II, 333.
dinner meeting: Smith, “Why We Went to War in Korea,” Saturday Evening Post, November 11, 1950.
a “darkening report”: Acheson, 406.
“a dagger pointed at the heart”: Rusk, 162.
“We must draw the line”: Bradley and Blair, 534–35.
“Underlying these discussions”: Ibid., 535.
“He pulled all the conferees together”: The New York Times, June 28, 1950.
“I thought we were still holding”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 335.
“the complete, almost unspoken”: Ibid., 334.
“so as not to give him too much”: Bradley and Blair, 536.
“It was our idea”: Donovan, 199.
“as Hermann Goering”: Jenkins, Truman, 164.
“Our estimate is that a complete collapse”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 337.
adding “not yet”: Department of State Memorandum for the Secretary, June 30, 1950, HSTL.
“We had no war plan”: Bradley and Blair, 539.
“Everything I have done”: Phillips, The Truman Presidency, 289.
“Too little, too late”: Washington Post, June 27, 1950.
“The attack upon Korea”: PP, HST, June 27, 1950, 492.
“Although the President”: Alsop, “Why Has Washington Gone Crazy?”, Saturday Evening Post, July 29, 1950.
“These are days”: Washington Post, June 28, 1950.
“We’ll have a dozen Koreas”: Eisenhower Diaries, 175.
“You may be a whiskey guzzling poker playing”: Harry Abel to HST, June 27, 1950, HSTL.
“I have lived and worked”: Time, July 10, 1950.
“We are not at war”: PP, HST, June 29, 1950, 504.
“The only assurance for holding”: MacArthur, Reminiscences, 334.
“Must be careful not to cause”: HST Diary, June 30, 1950, Off the Record, 185.
“Now, your job as President”: Sevareid, 74.
“Memo to Dean Acheson”: Acheson, 415.
“There was nothing passive”: Elsey, “Memoir: Some White House Recollections, 1942–1953,” Diplomatic History, Summer 1988.
“This is the Greece”: Quoted in Phillips, The Truman Presidency, 297.
“walk with the weary man’s”: Time, July 10, 1950.
Bradley meeting with HST: Time, August 21, 1950.
“The size of the attack”: PP, HST, July 19, 1950, 538.
as if a few troops of Boy Scouts: Ridgway, The Korean War, 17.
“Guys, sweat soaked”: Knox, The Korean War, Pusan to Chosin, 71.
“What a place to die”: New York Herald-Tribune, July 6, 1950.
Acheson, however, disagreed: Acheson, Present at the Creation, 414.
“Later when Robert Taft”: Heller, The Truman White House, 13.
HST said he would “back out”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 340.
her father’s anguish: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 357.
telegrams and letters to White House: White House Correspondence File, HSTL.
“The influence of Louis Johnson”: Joseph Alsop, author’s interview.
July 14 meeting: Acheson, 421.
July 19 message to Congress: PP, HST, July 19, 1950, 527–37.
press conference: Ibid., July 27, 1950, 560–64.
“He would have saved himself”: Bradley and Blair, A General’s Life, 542.
“an inordinate egotistical desire”: HST Diary, September 14, 1950, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 192.
a “pathological condition”: Bradley and Blair, 542.
HST confiding Harriman’s story: Ayers Diary, July 3, 1950, HSTL.
“A most interesting morning”: HST Diary, September 14, 1950, Off the Record, 192.
“Mr. Prima Donna”: HST Diary, June 17, 1945, ibid., 47.
“little regard or respect”: Ayers Diary, July 1, 1950, HSTL.
Dulles advised HST: Ibid.
HST’s little regard for generals: HST memorandum, April 24, 1954, Off the Record, 303.
“likes horses with blinders on”: Miller, Plain Speaking, 220.
“fluid but improving”: Ayers Diary, August 12, 1950, HSTL.
HST’s uppermost concern: Memoirs, Vol. II, 351.
“catch him alone”: Quoted in Heller, 14.
MacArthur assured HST: Memoirs, Vol. II, 351.
“with all his dramatic eloquence”: Bradley and Blair, 546.
the riskiest military proposal: Ibid., 544.
“I made it clear to the President”: Quoted in Heller, 14.
“as fast as you can”: Bradley and Blair, 546.
“This means not the usual”: Osborne, Life and Time, August 21, 1950.
“the wildest kind”: Bradley and Blair, 556.
“the gravest misgivings”: Ibid., 547.
“Nothing could be more fallacious”: Manchester, American Caesar, 568.
“his lips white”: Bradley and Blair, 551.
rank insubordination: Ibid.
“the height of arrogance”: Ibid.
HST rejects idea of relieving MacArthur: Memoirs, Vol. II, 355–56.
HST asks Johnson to have MacArthur’s statement withdrawn: Bradley and Blair, 551.
“The JCS inclined toward postponing”: Ibid., 547.
“a failure could be a national”: Ibid., 545.
“It was a daring strategic conception”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 358.
“Hell and high water”: HST to EWT, September 7, 1950, Off the Record, 189.
“I’ll do it”: Ibid.
“Can you think of anyone?”: Ibid.
Johnson told he must quit: HST Diary, September 14, 1950, ibid., 193.
a “military miracle”: Ridgway, 44.
“I salute you all”: Quoted in Phillips, 313.
“Troops could not be expected”: Acheson, 445.
to “feel unhampered”: Ridgway, 45.
“an almost superstitious awe”: Ibid., 61.
warnings a bluff: Spanier, The Truman-MacArthur Controversy and the Korean War, 87.
“and I did not feel”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 368.
“the perfect answer”: Wiltz, “Truman and MacArthur: The Wake Island Meeting,” Military Affairs, December 1978.
“good election year stuff”: Donovan, Tumultuous Years,284.
“While General MacArthur”: Acheson, 456.
“I’ve a whale of a job”: HST to Nellie Noland, October 13, 1950, Off the Record, 196.
“Two men can sometimes learn”: Time, October 23, 1950.
“I don’t care what they say”: Ibid.
MacArthur had arrived the night before: Ibid.
Harriman exchange with MacArthur: Bradley and Blair, 573.
“grave responsibility”: Ibid.
MacArthur greeting: New York Herald-Tribune, October 15, 1950.
“I have been worried”: Quoted in Donovan, 285.
MacArthur assured him victory was won: Memoirs, Vol. II, 365.
“seemed genuinely pleased”: Ibid.
“I had been warned”: MacArthur, Reminiscences, 361.
Vernice Anderson incident: Jessup, “Research Note/The Record of Wake Island—A Correction,” The Journal of American History, March 1981.
when MacArthur received transcript: Bradley and Blair, 575.
“He was the most persuasive fellow”: Quoted in Manchester, 592.
“the formal resistance”: Substance of Statements Made at Wake Island Conference on October 15, 1950, compiled by General Omar Bradley, declassified, 1, HSTL.
By January: Ibid.
Dean Rusk concerned: Rusk, As I Saw It, 169.
“Hell no!”: Ibid.
“They are the happiest”: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950. Vol. VII: Korea, 953
the French couldn’t “clean it up”: Substance of Statements Made at Wake Island Conference, 17.
MacArthur declined lunch: Ibid.
“Whether intended or not”: Bradley and Blair, 576.
“The communiqué should be submitted”: Substance of Statements Made at Wake Island Conference, 23.
MacArthur asked the President: MacArthur, Reminiscences, 362.
“Eisenhower doesn’t know the first thing”: Ibid., 363.
“the very complete unanimity of view”: PP, HST, October 15, 1950, 672.
“his vision, his judgment”: Donovan, 288.
a “glorious new page”: PP, HST, October 17, 1950, 674.
“On this one”: Rusk, 169.
“Come up to Pyongyang”: Newsweek, October 23, 1950.
“Goodbye, sir”: Time, October 23, 1950.
“I like them more”: Truman, Letters from Father, 97.
“He would treat us”: Rex Scouten, author’s interview.
Floyd Boring’s wife: Floyd Boring, author’s interview.
“The house was so quiet”: West, with Kotz, Upstairs at the White House, 116.
“I’d come out more or less”: Boring, author’s interview.
mistaken for divinity students: Life: November 13, 1950.
assassination attempt: Boring, author’s interview; Scouten, author’s interview; Life, November 13, 1950; The New York Times, November 2, 1950; Time, November 12, 1950; Whistle Stop, Fall 1979.
“Why, of course”: Time, November 12, 1950.
“It is important”: PP, HST, November 1, 1950, 693.
“But Truman was…just a symbol”: Kansas City Times, September 11, 1979.
“A President has to expect”: The New York Times, November 2, 1950.
HST insisted he was in no danger: PP, HST, November 2, 1950, 696.
so “unnecessary”: HST to Dean Acheson, November 2, 1950, HSTL.
“[Leaving the airport)”: HST Diary, November 5, 1950, Off the Record, 198.
“really a prisoner now”: HST to EN, November 17, 1950, ibid.
“The Korean death trap”: Donovan, 295.
“All the piety”: Ibid., 297.
Bess had seldom seen HST so downhearted: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 363–64.
“Some Republicans interpret”: PP, HST, November 16, 1950, 714.
“Then there were those”: Ridgway, 61.
“If this operation is successful”: Manchester, 606.
“a terrible message”: Ibid., 608.
“We’ve got a terrific”: Hersey, Aspects of the Presidency, 27.
“The Chinese have come in”: Ibid.
“alone and inescapably”: Ibid., 28.
seven thousand letters: Heller, 47.
“We can blame the liars”: Ibid., 30.
“His mouth drew tight”: Ibid., 28.
“We have got to meet this thing”: Ibid., 30;
“We face an entirely new war”: Quoted in Acheson, 469.
November 28, 1950, meeting: Ibid., 469, 471.
“There was no doubt”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 378.
“We can’t defeat the Chinese”: Acheson, 471.
the “imperative step”: Ibid.
“The threat of a larger war”: Bradley and Blair, 599.
“hordes of Chinese Reds”: Washington Star, November 28, 1950.
“A lot of hard work”: Memoirs Vol. II, 388.
“Remember, photographers are”: Truman, Letters from Father, 99.
“He ‘used’ the press”: Phillips, The New York Times, December 31, 1972.
“a fat no good can of lard”: HST to MJT, July 25, 1947, Off the Record, 115.
“the Sop Sisters”: HST to EWT, June 11, 1950, Ibid., 179 and 41, note.
“The prostitutes of the mind”: Poen, Strictly Personal and Confidential, 24.
“You might tell the gentleman”: HST to Joseph J. McGee, November 22, 1950, Off the Record, 199.
November 30, 1950, press conference: PP, HST, 724–728.
“No, it doesn’t mean”: Ibid., 727.
the “wildest days” ever: Ayers Diary, November 30, 1950, HSTL.
“the use of any weapon”: PP, HST, November 30, 1950, 727.
HST ill-advised: Bradley and Blair, 604.
in a crucial few days: Acheson, 466.
“I have the unhappy conviction”: Ibid.
“well remember”: Ridgway, 61.
“someone expressed what everyone”: Acheson, 475.
“You can relieve any commander”: Ridgway, 62.
Rusk proposes relieving MacArthur: Acheson, 476.
“I should have relieved”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 384.
“We must get him out”: HST Diary, December 2, 1950, Off the Record, 202.
“It looks very bad”: Ibid.
“Mr. President, the Chinese”: Rusk, 170.
“I’ve had conference after conference”: HST Diary, December 9, 1950, Off the Record, 204.
“[The President] thought that if”: Quoted in Donovan, 317.
He would not use the bomb: Ibid., 318.
“Charlie seemed in good form”: Ayers Diary, December 5, 1950, HSTL.
Death of Charlie Ross: Washington Post, December 6, 1950.
“The friend of my youth”: PP, HST, December 5, 1950, 737.
“Ah, hell”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 545–46.
previous Ross heart attacks: Washington Post, December 6, 1950.
HST keeps Ross death from Margaret: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 546.
“Afterward, Dad was effusive”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 366.
“really pretty bad that night”: John Hersey, author’s interview.
Hume review: Washington Post, December 6, 1950.
“That’s exactly what I want”: Traubel, St. Louis Woman, 211.
“longhand spasm”: HST to Dean Acheson, April 8, 1957, HSTL.
“Charlie Ross would never have”: Elsey, author’s interview.
“Mr. Hume: I’ve just read”: HST to Paul Hume, December 7, 1950.
“In the first place”: Time, December 18, 1950.
To Margaret he said: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 547.
“When he would write”: Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.
“a propaganda machine”: Time, September 18, 1950.
“I can only say”: Time, December 18, 1950.
letters and telegrams to White House: General Correspondence File, HSTL.
letter from the Bannings: HSTL.
“The Eighth Army is yours”: Ridgway, 83.
“never uttered wiser words”: Acheson, 512.
“brilliant, driving”: Bradley and Blair, 608.
“The troops are tired”: Ibid., 619.
“Under the extraordinary”: Quoted in Donovan, 346.
to recognize the “state of war”: Manchester, The Glory and the Dream, 550.
atomic bombs: Schaller, Douglas MacArthur, 225.
“go down that trail”: Rusk, 170.
“infinite patience”: Acheson, 515.
“steps which might in themselves”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 438, 436.
“We were at our lowest”: Bradley and Blair, 620.
“Eighth Army in good shape”: Ibid., 623.
“rolling forward”: Ridgway, The Korean War, 106.
to look “beyond MacArthur”: Bradley and Blair, 623.
Ridgway thought HST a great and courageous man: Ridgway, author’s interview.
“mainly a prima donna”: Bradley and Blair, 623.
“While General MacArthur was fighting”: Acheson, 517.
“the really terrifying strength”: Ridgway, 111.
“tired and depressed: Goulden, Korea, 453.
“just ordered a resumption”: Ridgway, 109.
“not only his nerves”: MacArthur, Reminiscences, 393.
“snapped his brilliant”: Bradley and Blair, 626.
“The enemy, therefore”: MacArthur, 388.
his “pronunciamento”: Acheson, The Korean War, 101.
“unforgiveable and irretrievable act”: Bradley and Blair, 627.
“Whom the gods would destroy”: Acheson, Korean War, 100.
“I couldn’t send a message”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 559.
“This was a most extraordinary”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 441–42.
“disbelief with controlled fury”: Acheson, Korean War, 102.
“Gallup Poll: The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 1935–1971, 970.
“If you are going to get on”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 443–45.
“What are we in Korea for”: Martin, My First Fifty Years in Politics, 203.
“Mr. President, this man is not”: Roger Tubby Diary, April 5, 1951.
“I did not know”: Bradley and Blair, 629.
“The situation could be resolved”: Acheson, Korean War, 104.
“If you relieve MacArthur”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 447.
“I don’t express any opinion”: HST Diary, April 5, 1951, Off the Record, 211.
“at the apex of a situation”: MacArthur, 394.
“The wind died down”: Martin, 207.
because they knew the kind of abuse: Bradley and Blair, 633.
MacArthur firing would provoke: Ibid.
“There was no question”: Phillips, 346–47.
He told Bradley to prepare: Memoirs, Vol. II, 448.
Speculation about MacArthur: Washington Post, April 10, 1951.
“So you won’t have to read about it”: Tubby Diary, April 12, 1951.
a supposed “major resignation”: Bradley and Blair, 636.
“There was a degree of panic”: Elsey, author’s interview.
“He’s not going to be allowed”: Phillips, 343.
“Discussed the situation”: HST Diary, April, 9, 1951, Off the Record, 211.
“Well, the little man”: Rusk, 172.
would have retired “without difficulty”: Schaller, 239.
HST’s “mental instability”: Donovan, 360; Goulden, 495.
“Our only choice”: Washington Post, April 12, 1951.
Tom Connally reminded: Ibid.
Chicago Tribune editorial: April 12, 1951.
“This is the biggest windfall”: Washington Post, April 18 1951.
“In the days ahead”: Letter from W. O. Douglas to HST, April 11, 1951, HSTL.
“It makes not the slightest”: The President vs. the General,” Sermon by Dr. Duncan E. Littlefield, April 15, 1951, Fountain Street Baptist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan, HSTL.
“The most obvious fact”: New York Herald-Tribune, April 13, 1951.
“bourbon and Benedictine”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 14, 1951.
Gallup Poll: Goldman, The Crucial Decade, 203.
HST booed at Griffith Stadium: Washington Post, April 21, 1951.
April 11, 1951, broadcast: PP, HST, April 11, 1951, 223–27.
“The only politics I have”: Time, April 30, 1951.
“I was sorry to have to reach”: HST to Eisenhower, April 13, 1951, HSTL.
mock “Schedule for Welcoming…”: HSTL.
“I address you”: New York Herald-Tribune, April 20, 1951.
“When I joined the Army”: MacArthur, 405.
“The hopes and dreams”: Quoted in Manchester, 661.
“We heard God speak”: Ibid.
“I honestly felt that if the speech”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 563.
“a bunch of damn bullshit”: Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 337.
“After I looked at that wreckage”: Time, May 14, 1951.
“a very distressing necessity”: Ibid.
“Having made this courageous decision”: Bradley and Blair, 637.
“Courage didn’t have anything”: Quoted in Phillips, 350.
“Truman’s conflict with MacArthur”: Rusk, 172.
MacArthur to Samuel Eliot Morison: Morison, The Oxford History of the American People, 1072.
May 18 dinner: PP, HST, May 18, 1951, 292–93.
Tullahoma, Tennessee, speech: Ibid., June 25, 1951, 357–63.
“I have tried to give it”: PP, HST, January 15, 1953, 1202.
“I walk two miles”: HST Diary, January 3, 1952, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 226.
“Mr. President, this is my first”: PP, HST, July 12, 1951, 387.
HST served bowl of milk toast: Tubby Diary, May 21, 1951.
“You constantly tell me to relax”: Ibid., April 13, 1952.
a framed verse: Hersey, Aspects of the Presidency, 108.
it was all worth the effort: Tubby Diary, October 15, 1951.
“I know what a soldier goes through”: PP, HST, January 15, 1953, 1200.
Sergeant John Rice: The New York Times, August 29, 1951.
“mysterious, powerful” conspiracy: Reeves, The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy, 372.
a “pithy and bitter” summary: Hersey, 137–38.
“Three pungent comments”: Ibid.
HST announces Marshall stepping down: PP, HST, September 12, 1951, 516.
Hassett would bring him funny items: Tubby Diary, June 24, 1951.
Hassett an alcoholic: Ibid., September 18, 1951.
the “chiselers” within: Ibid., early June, 1951.
“He tended to live”: George Elsey, author’s interview.
“an overeducated S.O.B.”: Douglas, In the Fullness of Time, 222.
he had “gone too far”: Ibid., 223.
“real crooks and influence peddlers”: Ibid.
“You have been loyal to friends”: Ibid., 224.
“You bastards”: Quoted in Goldman, The Crucial Decade—and After, 196.
“With staggering impact”: Ibid., 198–99.
HST and Army football scandal: Tubby Diary, August 3 and 8, 1951.
“I did nothing improper”: Douglas, 224.
He liked people: Tubby Diary, August 3, 1951.
“He was dressed in flashy”: Ibid., September 13, 1951.
“Ah, me. I wonder”: Ibid., early June, 1951,
like Warren G. Harding: Ibid., September 13, 1951.
“Poker, poker”: Ibid., April 2, 1951.
“Truman has to take strong action”: Ibid., early June, 1951.
“He does not like to dwell”: Ibid., October 15, 1951.
Boyle background: Kansas City Star, August 31, 1951.
“I like people who can”: HST to MT, December 3, 1944, Truman, Letters from Father, 60.
Charles Binnagio: The New York Times, April 7, 1950; Life, April 17, 1950.
“So Boyle is not only stupid”: Tubby Diary, early June, 1951.
“It’s all right”: Ibid.
“I have the utmost confidence”: PP, HST, August 9, 1951, 454.
Murphy memorandum: Charles S. Murphy to HST, August 9, 1951, HSTL.
Gabrielson revelations: Time, October 15, 1951.
Elsey report: Dunar, The Truman Scandals, 128.
“Let’s say continue”: PP, HST, December 13, 1951, 641.
“Boss, you’re going to have to run”: Tubby Diary, October 15, 1951.
“Once I’m outa the White House”: Ibid.
Gallup Poll: The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 1935–71, 1032.
“From that day forward”: Tubby Diary, January 16, 1952.
“Dealing with Communist Governments”: HST, private longhand note, January 27, 1952, HSTL.
Churchill trip to Washington: Gilbert, Winston Churchill, Never Despair, 675.
“What Churchill did was great”: Acheson, Present at the Creation, 595.
Churchill acknowledged American nuclear power: Tubby Diary, January 16, 1952.
HST’s “great decision”: Gilbert, 676.
“The last time you and I sat”: This often repeated tribute appears to have been recorded by Joe Short, who was on board the Williamsburg. It is paraphrased in Roger Tubby’s diary and would later appear in Margaret Truman Daniel’s book about her father and in several obituaries at the time of Truman’s death.
“the great white jail”: HST to EWT, September 13, 1946, Dear Bess, 536.
Hersey tour of White House: Hersey, 88.
“It is the President’s desire”: Winslow Diary, January 14 1949, OCWH (Office of the Curator, White House).
Congressional Commission established: Scale, The President’s House, Vol. II, 1029.
“The character and extent”: The White House Report of the Commission of Public Buildings, 91.
“The decision between these plans”: Ibid., 48.
Rabaut argued for dismantling: Renovation Commission Hearing Minutes, July 19, 1949, HSTL.
“They took the insides all out”: HST Diary, March 2, 1952, Off the Record, 243.
for proper underpinning: Seale, Vol. II, 1034.
“faithful reproductions”: The White House Report of the Commission of Public Buildings, 93.
“The President has authorized”: Seale, Vol. II, 1039.
description of bomb shelter: Tubby Diary, July 26, 1951.
for “morale reasons”: Ibid.
False radar report: Ibid.
“He considered it his project”: Rex Scouten, author’s interview.
“It is absolutely essential”: HST to Les Larson, June 12, 1951, HSTL.
HST forced into politics: Hersey, 88.
communing with White House spirits: Seale, Vol. II, 1047.
Winslow memo to HST: H. G. Grim to Lorenze S. Winslow, September 13, 1951, HSTL.
“I want it distinctly”: HST to William Adams Delano, August 25, 1950, HSTL.
“moving at the double quick”: The New York Times, March 15, 1952.
“Bess and I looked over”: HST Diary, March 27, 1952, Off the Record, 246.
“The President was an inexhaustible”: The New York Times, May 4, 1952.
“the most logical and qualified”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 489.
Eisenhower lunch with HST: Krock, Memoirs, 267-68.
“You can’t join a party”: Ambrose, Eisenhower, Soldier and President, 259-60.
“He told me Arthur Krock’s story”: Sulzberger, A Long Row of Candles, 693.
“Dear Ike: The Columnists”: HST to Dwight D. Eisenhower, December 18, 1951, Off the Record, 220.
“a grand man”: PP, HST, January 10, 1952, 21, 22.
“I’m sorry to see these fellows”: Tubby Diary, April 13, 1952.
“Can we elect?”: HST Diary, July 6, 1952, Off the Record, 261.
“He proved in that contest”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 491.
“He comes of a political family”: Ibid.
Stevenson talked his way past the guards: Martin, Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, 523.
“I told him I would not run”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 491.
“He was overcome”: HST Diary, March 4, 1952, Off the Record, 245.
“He apparently was flabbergasted”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 492.
“full of admiration”: Quoted in Martin, 523.
“Stevenson was impressed”: Ibid., 524.
“Adlai, if a knucklehead like me”: McKeever, Adlai Stevenson, His Life and Legacy, 179.
“If Eisenhower were the Republican”: Ibid., 178.
“[He] came to tell me”: HST Diary, March 4, 1952, Off the Record, 245.
Clifford advice to HST: Clifford, with Holbrooke, Counsel to the President, 283.
“Anybody who works closely”: Quoted in Martin, 544-45.
“Not at all”: Acheson, 632.
“I shall not be a candidate”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 492.
“I found myself shouting”: Quoted in Martin, 547.
“When you made your announcement”: Tubby Diary, April 3, 1952.
Did he plan to run: PP, HST, April 3, 1952, 233-34.
“I was stunned by”: Quoted in Martin, 553.
HST response to Stevenson: Ibid.
his amazing stamina: Tubby Diary, April 13, 1952.
“inability to get on top”: Dunar, 119.
with this farcical denouement: Phillips, The Truman Presidency, 413.
“I want you to know”: Dunar, 119.
“when I’m not so shaky”: Tubby Diary, April 13, 1952.
“McGrath, Korean truce talks”: Ibid.
HST appointment schedule: HSTL.
“These are not normal times”: PP, HST, April 8, 1952, 246.
“The President has the power”: Tubby Diary, April 6, 1952.
“Secretary of Defense Lovett”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 469.
“The attitude of the companies”: Ibid., 468.
“The plain fact of the matter”: PP, HST, April 8, 1952, 249.
HST looked so exhausted: Tubby Diary, April 13, 1952.
“very desirable”: PP, HST, April 9, 1952, 251.
one of the most high-handed acts: Washington Post, April 10, 1952.
“Nothing in the Constitution”: Ibid.
“Under similar circumstances”: PP, HST, April 17, 1952, 273.
“I believe that the contemplated strike”: Time, May 12, 1952.
“read it, read it”: Tubby Diary, May 3, 1952.
“[I] had never seen him”: Ibid.
an “outstanding” lawyer: Memoirs, Vol. II, 475.
“We cannot with faithfulness”: Donovan, “Truman Seizes Steel,” Constitution, Fall 1990.
“Today a kindly President”: Ibid.
“damn fool from Texas”: Miller, Plain Speaking, 242.
“a bit testy”: Donovan, “Truman Seizes Steel.”
“No enemy nation could”: Newsweek, August 4, 1952.
“The Court and Congress got us”: Tubby Diary, May 30–June 1, 1952.
“If the doctor had come in”: Ibid, July 21, 1952.
“It’s a lockout”: Ibid.
“This should lead to”: PP, HST, July 24, 1952, 501.
any red-blooded Democrat: Time, July 7, 1952.
“You never know what’s in you”: Tubby Diary, July 2, 1952.
“We followed you before”: Time, July 21, 1952.
“If Harry Truman turns out”: Ibid., July 7, 1952.
“I have been trying”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 496.
“I am going to take my coat off: Ibid., 497.
“The people are wise”: Time, August 4, 1952.
“Sacrifice, patience”: Quoted in McKeever, 201.
“Stevenson made his decision”: Time, August 4, 1952.
“Dear Governor: Last night”: HST to Adlai Stevenson, July 26, 1952, Off the Recora 263.
“He was affronted by”: Quoted in McKeever, 198.
“I have come to the conclusion”: HST to Adlai Stevenson, early August 1951, Off the Record, 266.
“Can Stevenson really clean up”: Martin, 644.
“rather ridiculous”: HST to Adlai Stevenson late August 1952, unsent, Off the Record, 268.
“Oh, Stevenson will get”: Tubby Diary, August 21, 1952.
“His eloquence was real”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 497.
HST would do everything possible: Tubby Diary, August 13, 1952.
“There’s a man of granite”: Ibid.
“When you vote the Democratic ticket”: PP, HST, September 29, 1952, 621.
“What I’ve always had in mind”: HST to Dwight Eisenhower, August 16, 1952, Off the Record, 263-64.
“a modern Cromwell”: Tubby Diary, September 17, 1952.
“This will help us”: Ibid., September 22, 1952.
“I nearly choked to hear him”: Ibid., September 14, 1952.
“I feel as if I killed them”: Ibid., September 22, 1952.
“red-hot anger”: Reeves, 439.
“Do I need to tell you”: Ibid., 440.
“very sad and pathetic”: PP, HST, October 4, 1952, 711.
“lay off Ike for a while”: Tubby Diary, early October, 1952.
“The general whose words”: PP, HST, October 7, 1952, 738.
“betrayed his principles”: Ibid., October 10, 1952, 784.
“Why, General Marshall was responsible”: Quoted in Miller, 370.
“Just how low”: Quoted in Donovan, 401.
“Ike was well informed”: Bradley and Blair, A General’s Life, 650.
no one could have beaten Eisenhower: HST memorandum, December 22, 1952, Off the Record, 282.
“if you still desire”: Donovan, 402.
“I sincerely wish”: HST Diary, November 15, 1952, Off the Record, 273.
“an orderly transfer”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 505.
he wished someone had done: Tubby Diary, November 24, 1952.
“not very graciously”: HST Diary, November 20, 1952, Off the Record, 274.
“He’ll sit right here”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 603.
“The White House is quiet”: HST Diary, November 24, 1952, Off the Record, 275.
“Since last September Mother Wallace”: Ibid.
“She was a grand lady”: HST Diary, December 6, 1952, ibid., 279.
32 percent: Gallup, 1102.
43 percent: Ibid.
“I wonder how far Moses”: HST Memorandum, 1954(?), Off the Record, 310.
“It bears down on a country boy”: HST to EN, January 2, 1952, Off the Record, 287.
felt “repudiated”: Tubby Diary, February 1, 1953.
reminiscences with staff: Ibid, February 2, 1953.
916Look magazine article: Commager, “A Few Kind Words for Harry Truman,” Look, August 1951.
“Flying back over the flatlands”: Tubby Diary, February 3, 1953.
“Certainly no man”: PP, HST, January 16, 1953, 1203.
“In personality, conversation”: Brown, Through These Men, 41.
farewell address: PP, HST, January 15, 1953, 1197-1202.
“in the manner of his going”: New York Herald-Tribune, January 19, 1953.
Inauguration day: HST Diary, January 20, 1953, Off the Record, 287.
“I was glad I wasn’t”: West, with Kotz, Upstairs at the White House, 126.
“I ride with Ike”: HST Diary, January 20, 1953, Off the Record, 257.
“the very many courtesies”: Ambrose, 296.
“It was a shocking moment”: Eric Sevareid, author’s interview.
“The street in front of Dean’s house”: HST Diary, January 20, 1953, Off the Record, 288.
“an absolutely wonderful affair”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 610.
“There’s the best friend”: Washington Post, January 21, 1953.
“I’m just Mr. Truman”: The New York Times, January 21, 1953.
“Crowd at Harper’s Ferry”: HST Diary, January 20, 1953, Off the Record, 288.
“Been going over”: HST to Dean Acheson, April 18, 1953, HSTL.
“Who knows”: HST to EW, May 23, 1911, Dear Bess, 36.
“I tried never to forget”: Miller, Plain Speaking, 10.
“Rumors have it”: Independence Examiner, January 22, 1953.
Burrus had picked out house: Rufus Burrus, author’s interview.
exploit or “commercialize”: Associated Press, January 23, 1953.
a Miami real estate developer: Samuel Q. Goldman to HST, October 7, 1952, HSTL.
Toyota offer: HST to Paul Butler, March 3, 1959, HSTL.
“I still don’t feel”: Quoted in Ferrell, Harry S. Truman and the Modern American Presidency, 153.
“where everybody seemed”: HST to Dean Acheson, February 7, 1953, HSTL.
“take the grips up”: Ray Scherer, author’s interview.
HST set off for Grandview: Tubby Diary, February 5, 1953; Independence Examiner, January 23, 1953.
That was good land: George Elsey, Oral History, HSTL; author’s interview.
“A cold wind whipping”: Tubby Diary, February 5, 1953.
“More than any other single”: Harry S. Truman, Mr. Citizen, 25.
“He was utterly lost”: Osborne, “Happy Days for Harry,” Life, July 7, 1958.
“Diamond Head”: HST Diary, April 1953, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 290.
“This morning at 7 A.M.”: HST Diary, May 20, 1953, Ibid., 292.
“A shovel (automatic)”: Ibid.
“a real tryout”: Truman, 64.
“Everything went well”: HST to Vic H. Housholder, November 29, 1953, Off the Record, 298.
“I admitted the charge”: Ibid.
“There goes our incognito”: Truman, 65.
“You’re a sight for sore eyes”: The New York Times, June 22, 1953.
“like a dream”: Truman, 67.
“If you’d go again”: The New York Times, June 29, 1953.
“He was very nice”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 6, 1953.
“The book is doing fine”: HST to Acheson, November 5, 1953, HSTL.
Paul Douglas observation: Quoted in Manchester, The Glory and the Dream, 663.
“As for the United States”: July 27, 1953.
“The war is over”: Manchester, 663.
“Of course I’m happy”: HST to Bela Kornitzer, August 7, 1953, HSTL.
“I’m not a writer!”: Francis Heller, author’s interview.
Hillman and Noyes: Miller, 20.
Promising to “protect” HST: Heller, author’s interview.
recording machine: Heller, “The Writing of the Truman Memoirs,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Winter 1983.
Royce highly disorganized: Heller, author’s interview.
HST annoyed: Heller, “The Writing of the Truman Memoirs.”
“lively” and “honest”: Elston, The World of Time Inc., 299.
“The cream of the White House”: Williams, “I Was Truman’s Ghost,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Spring 1982.
“His approval or criticism”: Ibid.
HST begins his day: Erskine, “Truman in Retirement,” Collier’s, February 4, 1955.
“She had golden curls”: Memoirs, Vol. 1, 116.
“I always try to be”: HST Diary, July 8, 1953, Off the Record, 293.
“After I’d passed”: Ibid.
“When we moved”: Memoirs, Vol. 1, 115.
“In the fall of 1892”: Ibid., 116.
How could father be called failure: Steinberg, The Man from Missouri, 15.
“I have been working on”: HST to Acheson, January 28, 1954, HSTL.
“Our tribal instinct”: HST to Acheson, St. Patrick’s Day, 1954, HSTL.
“I used to say”: Osborne, “Happy Days for Harry.”
auction at the Armory: Independence Examiner, November 19, 1954.
“I’m worried about our world”: HST to Acheson, May 28, 1954, HSTL.
Truman stricken at Call Me Madam: Kansas City Star, June 19, 1954.
gall bladder operation: The New York Times, June 21, 1954.
“a hell of a time”: HST to Acheson, October 14, 1954, HSTL.
“When the papers tell us”: Acheson to HST, June 21, 1954, HSTL.
“When you get acquainted”: Ibid.
“It is touching”: Acheson to EWT, June 30, 1954, HSTL.
“going great guns”: HST to Acheson, January 11, 1955, HSTL.
“The material is more interesting”: Acheson to HST, June 21, 1955, HSTL.
“Page 114, line 3”: Ibid.
“She was his true”: Ken McCormick, author’s interview.
“We’d left home”: HST Diary, June 24, 1955, Off the Record, 317.
“I never really appreciated”: Elston, 299.
“I expect to use, probably”: HST to Samuel S. Vaughan, October 22, 1955, HSTL.
“when we see him”: Samuel S. Vaughan, author’s interview.
“I had no idea”: Ibid.
“There, that one’s all slicked up”: Paul Horgan, author’s interview.
“I will autograph”: HST to Ken McCormick, July 1, 1955, Off the Record, 319.
only as “my history”: Heller, author’s interview.
“Altogether, it well”: The New York Times Book Review, November 6, 1955.
called Margaret “skinny”: HST to Acheson, January 11, 1955, HSTL.
“When I hear”: HST to Acheson, January 25, 1955, HSTL.
“Margie has put one over”: HST to Acheson, March 26, 1956, HSTL.
“He strikes me as a very nice”: HST to Acheson, March 26, 1956, HSTL.
“Consolation is just what”: Acheson to HST, March 27, 1956, HSTL.
“rain, rain, rain”: HST Diary, June 21 (?), 1956, Off the Record, 336.
“I was so afraid”: HST to Acheson, July 20, 1956, HSTL.
welcome in Rome: Time, May 28, 1956.
Henry Luce tour: The New York Times, May 20, 1956.
Paul Schultheiss: Independence Examiner, May 19, 1956.
“He is considered the greatest”: HST Diary, May 27–29, 1956, Off the Record, 329.
“[Harry] Truman and his wife lunched”: Berenson, Sunset and Twilight, 436.
“I found that it was somewhat”: HST Diary, June 4, 1956, Off the Record, 332.
“squeezed” from the people: HST Diary, June 1956, ibid., 333.
“We crossed the Channel”: HST Diary, June 21 (?), 1956, ibid., 336.
“Never, never in my life”: Kansas City Times, June 20, 1956.
“Truest of allies”: The New York Times, June 21, 1956.
“Mr. Truman is very popular”: Kansas City Times, June 20, 1956.
“Every person born”: Ibid., June 21, 1956.
“Give ’em, hell, Harricum!”: Ibid.
“I think we in this room”: The New York Times, June 22, 1956.
“A good many of the difficulties”: The Times (London), June 22, 1956.
“And—not least of all”: Ibid.
visit to London: HST Diary, June 21 (?), 1956, Off the Record, 336.
“England is prosperous”: Ibid., 337.
“It was all over too soon”: HST Diary, June 24, 1956, ibid., 338.
“He told me that he could do”: Ibid.
“Too bad he’s not campaigning”: Kansas City Times, June 29, 1956.
“Never [said the United Press]”: Independence Examiner, June 28, 1956.
“lacks the kind of fighting spirit”: McKeever, Adlai Stevenson, 376.
“Harry S. Truman had the Democratic”: The New York Times, August 12, 1956.
“When I arrived in Chicago”: HST to Acheson, August 29, 1956, HSTL.
“I have never wanted to pose”: HST to LBJ, December 11, 1956, LBJL.
“Dad sat there for a long time”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 621.
“I expect to be knee deep”: HST to Acheson, June 7, 1957, HSTL.
“Mr. Truman, who has abiding”: The New York Times, July 7, 1957.
labor union contributions: “Contributions of Labor Unions to Harry S. Truman Library, Inc.,” HSTL.
“Hey there, farmer!” HST telephone conversation with Sam Rayburn, July 15, 1958, Off the Record, 364.
net profit: Kirkendall, ed., The Harry S. Truman Encyclopedia, 129.
“Had it not been”: HST to John W. McCormack, January 10, 1957, Off the Record, 346.
“As you know, we passed”: Ibid.
“I would be proud”: HST to Acheson, October 15, 1952, HSTL.
“Mr. Truman is deeply”: Acheson to Thomas Bergin, July 12, 1954, HSTL.
HST and Yale librarian: Chester Kerr, author’s interview.
“I have never had a better time”: HST to Acheson, April 16, 1958, HSTL.
“Yale still rings”: HST to Acheson, May 15, 1958, HSTL.
“He’s so damn happy”: Osborne, “Happy Days for Harry.”
getting a bigger kick: Phillips, “Truman at 75,” The New York Times Magazine, May 3, 1959.
“a man overflowing with life”: Ibid.
“She says I am just like”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 10, 1959.
“You know this five day week”: HST to Acheson, April 10, 1968, HSTL.
“where he can sit”: Unidentified article, February 3, 1960, Vertical Files, HSTL.
“Mr. Truman was one of the most thoughtful”: Essay by Phillip C. Brooks, February 16, 1971, HSTL.
HST and Benton’s drinking: Kansas City Star, March 14, 1989.
“Well, what the hell”: Benton, An Artist in America, 351.
“When a good politician”: Kansas City Star, April 27, 1959.
“I like being a nose buster”: HST to Acheson, April 20, 1955, HSTL.
“She and I spent”: HST to Acheson, February 19, 1959, HSTL.
“Do you suppose any President”: HST to Acheson, November 24, 1959, HSTL.
“It’s not the pope”: Miller Tapes, LBJL.
Kennedy’s notes: “Interview with Truman,” Dictated to Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln, 12:00 Noon, January 10, 1959, HSTL.
“Just tell him it was Harry Truman”: John Zentay, author’s interview.
“stub his toe”: Acheson to HST, April 14, 1960, HSTL.
“I hate to say this”: Ibid.
“without doubt”: Kansas City Star, May 13, 1960.
Acheson letter: Acheson to HST, June 27, 1960, HSTL.
“You’ll never know”: HST to Acheson, July 9, 1960, HSTL.
“I am going to Los Angeles”: HST to Agnes E. Meyer, June 25, 1960, Off the Record, 386.
“Your coming here is considered”: Memorandum from Hillman and Noyes to HST, undated, Post-Presidential Files, HSTL.
“rigged—or you will be charged”: Ibid.
HST press conference: The New York Times, July 3, 1961.
“I listened to your press”: Acheson to HST, July 17, 1960, HSTL.
“He could not have been”: Notes from Conversation of United Press Newsman with JFK, undated, HSTL.
“blue as indigo”: HST to Acheson, August 26, 1960, unsent, Off the Record, 390.
“Don’t get discouraged”: HST to Samuel Rosenman, August 22, 1960, HSTL.
“Now you are in for it”: Acheson to HST, August 12, 1960, HSTL.
“A nap after lunch”: “Memo on Mr. Truman’s Trips,” David Stowe Papers, HSTL.
“Although he moves into and through”: “Notes on Truman Trips During 1960 Presidential Campaign,” David Stowe Papers, HSTL.
“The campaign is ended”: HST to Acheson, November 21, 1960, HSTL.
“I’ve had a lot of fun”: HSTL research staff phone conversation with Paul Hume, December 21, 1979, HSTL.
“See, I told you”: Ibid.
“You know, she remembered”: Peggy Scott, author’s interview.
“You are making a contribution”: HST to Acheson, July 7, 1961, Off the Record, 395.
“Needless to say”: Ibid.
“I had thought he was not”: Merle Miller, author’s interview.
“Don’t try to make a play actor”: Aurthur, “The Wit and Sass of Harry S. Truman,” Esquire, August 1971.
“I think there were people”: Miller, author’s interview.
inclined to exaggerate: Miller, 13.
“Goddamn an eyewitness”: Miller Tapes, LBJL.
“He had something like Bryan”: Ibid.
“I haven’t seen him”: Ibid.
“He was a good man”: Ibid.
“came back rich with detail”: Aurthur, “Harry Truman Chuckles Dryly,” Esquire, September 1971.
“Because if while I’m talking”: Ibid.
“My God, he’s not old”: Miller, author’s interview.
hated long hair: Byron Stewart, Jr., author’s interview; Miller, 456.
“People in Independence”: Miller Tapes, LBJL.
“There were times”: Miller, author’s interview.
HST appalled by Bay of Pigs: HST to Acheson, May 3, 1961, HSTL.
“This is a terrible weakness”: Acheson to HST, July 14, 1961, HSTL.
“Keep writing”: HST to Acheson, July 18, 1961, HSTL.
“You must remember”: HST to Acheson, September 25, 1961, Off the Record, 397.
“If and when that happens”: HST to Acheson, December 20, 1962, HSTL.
“I just don’t like”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, 230.
“Matt Connelly has been”: HST to RFK, January 24, 1962, HSTL.
HST sends letter of gratitude: HST to JFK, December 3, 1962, HSTL.
“That old lady”: HST to Acheson, May 14, 1963, Off the Record, 407.
“Having come so close”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 418.
HST put to bed at Blair House: Wilroy and Prinz, Inside Blair House, 117.
Secret Service protection: Robert Lockwood, author’s interview.
“Thank you very much”: Remarks by Former President Harry S. Truman, Being the Occasion of Mr. Truman’s 80th Birthday, May 8, 1964, 88th Congress, 2nd Sess., Sen. Doc. No. 88.
HST falls: HST to Acheson, January 12, 1965.
“He doesn’t look a thing”: Ferrell, Harry S. Truman and the Modern American Presidency, 159.
“He would say ‘You’re doing…’ “: Thomas Melton, author’s interview.
“sad amazement” at HST’s appearance: Merriman Smith, UPI, July 31, 1965.
“Quite often we have”: Melton, author’s interview.
Nixon visit: Independence Examiner, March 21, 1969.
asked what he had played: Elizabeth Safly, author’s interview.
HST with grandchildren in baseball cap: Photo Archives, HSTL.
“Oh, to have a good comfortable”: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.
“No, young man”: Ken McCormick, author’s interview.
December 5 illness: Research Hospital and Medical Center, press release, December 5, 1972, HSTL.
December 6 “critical”: Ibid., December 6, 1972, 10:23 P.M. CST, HSTL.
“very serious”: Ibid, December 14, 1972, 9:00 A.M., CST, HSTL.
he answered, “Better”: Ibid., December 10, 1972, 2:00 P.M., HSTL.
“warm, sweet and most appreciative”: Quoted in Belton (Missouri) Star-Herald, December 28, 1972.
“He squeezed my hand”: Ibid.
“very, very small”: The New York Times, December 26, 1972.
Bess almost exhausted: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 421.
“Keep it simple”: Ibid., 422.
“This whole town”: Time, January 8, 1973.
staff watching grave filled in: Safly, author’s interview.
“He was not a hero”: Washington Star, December 29, 1972.
Alden Whitman interview: Whitman, Come to Judgment, xvii.
“I’m not sure”: Eric Sevareid, author’s interview.