there wasn’t a German bullet: HST to EW, February 1, 1918, Dear Bess, 242.
“Galahad after the Grail”: Autobiography, 41.
passes eye exam: U.S. Army Medical Records, August 9, 1917, HSTL.
On July 4, 1917, when Harry turned up: HST to EW, July 4, 1918, HSTL.
“It was sure enough cold”: HST to EW, October 9, 1917, HSTL.
“A tent fifty yards away”: HST to EW, October 18, 1917, Dear Bess, 231–32.
“all the Lillian Russells”: HST to EW, September 30, 1917, ibid., 228.
artillery terms: Lee, The Artillery Man, 326.
“I have been squads east”: HST to EW, February 3, 1918, Dear Bess, 242.
“I learned how to say Verdun”: HST to EW, October 27, 1918, HSTL.
“He made us feel”: HST to EW, January 27, 1918, Dear Bess, 241.
“one of our most effective officers”: Thomson, Virgil Thomson, 35.
“I have a Jew in charge”: HST to EW, October 28, 1917, Dear Bess, 233.
“Each day Harry would write a letter”: Mayerberg, “Edward Jacobson: President Truman’s Buddy,” Liberal Judaism, August 1945.
“I guess I should be very proud”: HST to EW, February 3, 1918, Dear Bess, 242.
“real good conversation”: HST to EW, February 23, 1918, ibid., 245–46.
“Jacobson says he’d go”: HST to EW, November 24, 1917, ibid., 238.
“I didn’t know how crazy”: HST to EW, January 10, 1918, ibid., 240.
Tiernan provides whiskey: HST to EW, October 23, 1917, ibid., 232.
“We elected Klemm”: Truman interview with Jonathan Daniels, November 12, 1949.
“He taught me more about handling men”: Autobiography, 44.
“You speak pretty good English”: Ted Marks, Oral History, HSTL.
“No man can be that good”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 128.
Berry would stalk up and down: Steinberg, 43.
“I suppose you will have to spend”: HST to EW, March 16, 1918, HSTL.
“I’d give anything in the world”: HST to EW, March 20, 1918, Dear Bess, 251.
“The phone’s yours”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 129.
“On leave in New York”: HST to EW, March 24 and March 26, 1918, Dear Bess, 252–53.
a “Kike town”: HST to EW, March 27, 1918, ibid, 254.
“Israelitist extraction”: HST to EN, ca. 1918, HSTL.
“I imagine his vision”: Harry Vaughan, Oral History, HSTL.
“There we were watching”: Autobiography, 45.
He ached for home: HST to EW, April, 1918, Dear Bess, 256.
arrival at Brest: Autobiography, 45.
At the hotel in Brest: HST to EW, April 14, 1918, Dear Bess, 257.
The whole surrounding countryside: HST to EW, April 23, 1918, ibid, 260.
“The people generally treat us fine”: HST to EW, April 12, 1918, ibid, 259.
“I’m for the French more and more”: HST to EW, June 27, 1918, ibid, 264.
They also knew how to build: HST to EW, May 19, 1918, ibid, 262.
“They are the most sentimental people”: HST to EW, June 2, 1918, HSTL.
“Je ne comprends pas”: HST to EW, April 17, 1918, Dear Bess, 259.
determined to drink France dry: HST to EW, April 14, 1918, ibid, 258.
“Wandering through dark streets”: Quoted in Freidel, Over There, p. 80.
“Personally, I think Harry”: Edgar Hinde, Oral History, HSTL.
“Wish I could step in”: HST to EW, April 17, 1918, Dear Bess, 259.
the first-class coach: HST to EN, May 17, 1918, HSTL
account of château: HST to EW, April 28, 1918, Dear Bess, 260.
“You’d never think that a war”: HST to EN, May 1, 1918, HSTL.
“and then the clock on the Hôtel de Ville”: HST to EW, April 28, 1918, HSTL.
“I’ve studied more and worked harder”: HST to EW, May 26, 1918, HSTL.
“We had a maneuver yesterday”: HST to EW, May 26, 1918, HSTL.
Sundays at church: HST to EW, April 28, 1918, Dear Bess, 261.
“and I’m for helping them”: HST to EW, May 5, 1918, ibid.
discovered volumes of music: HST to EW, May 19, 1918, HSTL.
“He had maps”: Arthur Wilson, Oral History, HSTL.
“I just barely slipped through”: HST to EW, June 14, 1918, Dear Bess, 263.
“old rube” from Missouri: HST to EW, June 27, 1918, ibid, 263.
value of a university education: HST to EW, July 22, 1918, ibid, 267.
“No I haven’t seen any girls”: HST to EW, June 27, 1918, ibid, 264.
“I look like Siam’s King”: HST to EW, June 19, 1918, HSTL.
“That was one of the things”: Cather, One of Ours, 319.
“Dear Harry, May this photograph”: EW inscribed photograph, HSTL.
“They were a pretty wild bunch”: Hinde, Oral History, HSTL.
“a sitting duck”: Eugene Donnelly quoted in Miller, 97.
“a stirring among the fellows”: Ibid, 96.
“a rather short fellow”: Vere Leigh, Oral History, HSTL.
“You could see that he was”: Edward McKim, Oral History, HSTL.
“I could just see my hide”: Autobiography, 46.
“Never on the front”: “Pickwick Papers,” HSTL.
Ridge recollection: Miller, 96.
“He was so badly scared”: “Pickwick Papers,” HSTL.
“And then we gave Captain Truman”: Leigh, Oral History, HSTL.
“He didn’t hesitate at all”: Ibid.
“I didn’t come over here”: Daniels, The Man of Independence, 95.
“Well, I would say”: Wilson, Oral History, HSTL.
“You soldier for me”: Ibid.
“soldier, soldier, all the time”: Lee, 33–34.
“Talk about your infantryman”: HST to EN, August 5, 1918, HSTL.
“You’ve no idea what an immense responsibility”: HST to EW, August 13, 1918, HSTL.
train passing close enough to Paris: War Diary of Captain Keith W. Dancy, Battery A, Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri.
“It was just a quiet sector”: Frederick J. Bowman, Oral History, HSTL.
“It was surely some steep hill”: HST to EW, November 23, 1918, HSTL.
“we were firing away”: Leigh, Oral History, HSTL.
“gasping like a catfish”: Columbus (Kansas) Daily Advocate, August 16, 1950.
“I led the parade!”: Walter Menefee, Oral History, HSTL.
“I got up and called them everything”: Daniels, 96.
“The men think I am not much”: HST to EW, September 8, 1918, HSTL.
“It was literally true”: Lee, 67.
Bennett Clark incident: Steinberg, 47.
“Well, I was scared green”: HST to EW, November 23, 1918, HSTL.
“September 10. Leave Coyviller”: HST War Diary, HSTL.
“Who can ever forget”: Lee, 75.
“So slow was our progress”: Ibid, 72.
“American drive begins”: HST War Diary, HSTL.
“The great adventure”: HST to EW, September 15, 1918, Dear Bess, 271.
“We were doing our best to finish”: HST to EW, September 15, 1918, HSTL.
“And there was an order out”: Floyd Ricketts, Oral History, HSTL.
“like a crazy man”: McKim, Oral History, HSTL.
Tiernan’s coat: Ibid.
“The Colonel insults me shamefully”: HST War Diary, HSTL.
“The weather was bad”: Ricketts, Oral History, HSTL.
“the history of the world”: Miller, 101.
“If all priests were like him: Ibid, 103.
“I stripped the battery for action”: HST to EW, November 23, 1918, HSTL.
“Everything was now in readiness”: Lee, 93.
“Just a word to you”: Toland, No Man’s Land, 403.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who took off: Ibid, 432.
“That gun squad worked”: Harry E. Murphy, Oral History, H
STL.
“My guns were so hot”: HST to EW, November 23, 1918, HSTL.
“confusing in the extreme”: Marshall, Memoirs of My Services in the World War, 160.
At a crossroads near Cheppy: Truman, “The Military Career of a Missourian,” HSTL.
“Truman didn’t panic”: Leigh, Oral History, HSTL.
“Truman sent back the data”: McKim, Oral History, HSTL.
“You know…when you’re in the artillery”: Leigh, Oral History, HSTL.
“The artillery fire has been something”: Minder, This Man’s War, 328.
“Well, men,” Miles said: Lee, 167.
“The coolness, the steady courage”: Ibid., 168.
“It isn’t as bad as I thought”: HST to EW, October 8, 1918, Dear Bess, 274.
“He was the Captain”: Leigh, Oral History, HSTL.
“The most terrific experience”: HST to EW, October 8, 1918, Dear Bess, 274.
“all the comforts of home”: HST to EW, October 30, 1918’, ibid., 276.
consistently clean and dapper: Vaughan, Oral History, HSTL.
“where every time a shell lights”: HST to EW, November 1, 1918, Dear Bess, 277–78.
“When the moon rises”: HST to EW, October 30, 1918, ibid., 276.
sends a poppy: HST to EN, November 1, 1918, HSTL.
“He handed me a piece”: Meisburger quoted in Peoria Journal-Star, May 6, 1970.
“My battery fired the assigned barrages”: Weintraub, A Stillness Heard Round the World, 169.
“When the firing ceased”: Ibid.
“People went so wild”: Ibid, 170.
“You’ve no idea”: HST to EN, December 18, 1918, HSTL.
“We were just—”: Leigh, Oral History, HSTL.
“what you’d expect at the Gaiety”: HST to EN, December 18, 1918, HSTL.
Paris tour: HST to EW, November 29, 1918, Dear Bess, 283.
“as wild as any place”: HST to EN, December 18, 1918, HSTL.
“a dandy place”: HST to EW, November 29, 1918, Dear Bess, 283.
“beautifully sung”: HST to EW, December 18, 1918, ibid., 284.
“To keep from going crazy”: Steinberg, 50.
“Every day nearly someone”: HST to EW, January 12, 1919, Dear Bess, 292.
“Would as leave lost a son”: HST War Diary, HSTL.
“It’s some trick to keep”: HST to EN, January 20, 1919, HSTL.
the possibility of running for political office: HST to EW, November 1, 1918, Dear Bess, 277.
“I can’t see what on earth”: HST to EW, December 19, 1918, ibid., 287.
“thirsted for a West Point education”: HST to EW, December 14, 1918, ibid., 286.
“back to God’s country again”: HST to EW, November 1, 1918, ibid., 277.
“Maybe have a little politics”: HST to EW, December 14, 1918, ibid., 285.
“We’ll be married anywhere”: HST to EW, February 18, 1919, ibid., 296.
“You may invite the entire 35th Division”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 77.
“As far as we’re concerned”: HST to EN, January 20, 1919, HSTL.
he bought a wedding ring: Truman, 78.
violently seasick nearly the whole way: HST to EW, April 24, 1919, Dear Bess, 297–98.
Part Two
5. Try, Try Again
“I’ve had a few setbacks”: Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 70.
nineteenth-century man: Ibid., 43.
“I want you to be happy”: HST to EWT, July 9, 1925, Dear Bess, 319.
“It was characteristic”: Leuchtenburg, Perils of Prosperity, 83.
“I have always wondered”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 127.
answering letters from the mothers and fathers: Miller, 97.
“Well, I remember when he came back”: Ethel Noland, Oral History, HSTL.
last heated argument: HST to EWT, June 29, 1949, Dear Bess, 558.
Truman wedding: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 79–80.
“I hope you have the same success”: Unidentified letter from member of Battery D, Waco, Texas, to HST, July 15, 1919; HSTL.
“Well, Mrs. Truman, you’ve lost Harry”: Ted Marks, Oral History, HSTL.
Mary Jane had cooked noon dinner: Miller, 107.
“You’ve just never seen such a radiant”: Noland, Oral History, HSTL.
“a very, very difficult person”: Miller, 106.
“I didn’t know”: Quoted in Daniels, The Man of Independence, 100.
“Twelfth Street was in its heyday”: Ibid., 105–06.
“We’d all drop in”: Edward McKim, Oral History, HSTL.
“But Harry seemed glad”: Miller, Harry S. Truman, 155.
“You can’t quit them”: Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 92.
“I see no reason”: Unidentified letter to HST, December 14, 1919, HSTL.
“Well, sir, don’t forget me”: Eugene Donnelly to HST, October 4, 1920, HSTL.
“We’d have done anything for him”: Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 97.
husband never worked as hard: Ibid., 112.
Battery D reunion: E. J. Becker to HST, March 22, 1921, HSTL.
“He would get out and go’: Marks, Oral History, HSTL.
Dr. A. Gloom Chaser: HSTL.
war memorial ceremonies: Kansas City Times, October 17, 1921.
“That was when we took”: Quoted in Daniels, 119.
“high jinks”: McKim, Oral History, HSTL.
a sign of anti-Semitism: Miller, Plain Speaking, 106.
Eddie’s frayed suit: Daniels, 109.
“It was a nice store”: Edgar Hinde, Oral History, HSTL.
“There goes Harry”: Gaylon Babcock, Oral History, HSTL.
“a nice boy”: HST to EWT, September 20, 1921, Dear Bess, 312.
“I’ve got friends”: Quoted in Reddig, Tom’s Town, 28.
“There is no kinder hearted”: Kansas City Times, March 26, 1892.
“No deserving man”: Quoted in Dorsett, The Pendergast Machine, 21.
reputation of saloon keepers: Kansas City Star files, undated.
“I never needed a crooked”: Quoted in Reddig, 32.
“His support of any man”: Ibid., 72.
“Brother Tom will make”: Ibid.
Thomas Joseph Pendergast: Ibid., 33.
“Yes. Why not?”: O. K. Armstrong, “Crusade in Kansas City,” This Week, March 13, 1938.
“He was a master!”: Matt Devoe, author’s interview.
“that fellow could probably talk”: Conn Withers, author’s interview.
“Oh, he was a wonderful man”: Geraldine Ketchum, author’s interview.
“No, I never had a sense of evil”: Monsignor Arthur Tighe, author’s interview.
Tom kept to himself: Mason, Truman and the Pendergasts, 33.
“You can’t make a man good”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 12, 1937.
“We have the theory”: Ibid.
“Let the river take its course”: Mason, 25.
“Politics is a business”: Kansas City Star, March 31, 1966.
“When a man’s in need”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 12, 1937.
happy to be “repeaters”: Ketchum, author’s interview.
woman in the hospital laundry: Ibid.
“Oh, I knew it was illegal”: Ibid.
“When we come over the hill”: Reddig, 34.
“Stealing elections”: Quoted in Mason, 46.
Fifty-Fifty Agreement: Dorsett, 62–63.
“enforcer of loyalty”: Reddig, 97.
“tenacious fighting type”: Unidentified obituary of Pendergast, September 2, 1929.
Mike passed over because of temper: Robert Pendergast, author’s interview.
idea of running Harry: Joseph and Catherine Pruett, author’s interview.
If Captain Truman was all Jim said: Ibid., and Robert Pendergast, author’s interview.
“They are trying to run me” HST to Ernest Schmidt, February 4, 1922, HSTL.
“Now, I’m going to t
ell you” Quoted in Daniels, 114.
“Old Tom Pendergast wanted”: Harry Vaughan, Oral History, HSTL.
“Went into business all enthusiastic”: “Pickwick Papers”, HSTL.
“I loved him as I did my own daddy”: Ibid.
“feeling fairly blue”: Daniels, 109.
“Well, I’ve got to eat”: Ibid., 110–.
“mess up” his life with politics: Ibid., 110–.
“They always like to pick winners”: Noland, Oral History, HSTL.
auditorium at Lee’s Summit: Lee’s Summit Journal, March 9, 1922.
“thoroughly rattled”: Quoted in Truman, Mr. Citizen, 156.
“I was scared worse”: HST Diary, September 23, 1952, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record 271.
“I knew Harry Truman”: Stephen Slaughter, author’s interview.
“the poorest effort of a speech”: Hinde Oral History, HSTL.
“If you’re going to be in politics”: Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 128.
“We’d do whatever was necessary”: Ibid.
sacks of cement: Memoirs, Vol. I, 137.
to arrive by airplane: McKim, Oral History, HSTL.
“I am now going to tell you”: Independence Examiner, July 18, 1922.
“I want men for road overseers”: Quoted in Daniels, 142.
“You have heard it said”: Ibid., 118.
Edgar Hinde urged Harry: Hinde, Oral History, HSTL.
“They didn’t just hate Catholics”: Quoted in Reddig, 113.
“The smell of old ‘alky’ ” Independence Examiner, August 1, 1922.
Shannon henchmen: Ibid., August 2, 1922.
Gibson’s 45-caliber: Ibid.
Fifty-fifty was finished: Kansas City Times, September 2, 1929.
“We ran the county”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 137.
“When a road project” Independence Examiner, July 9, 1919.
suffered a second miscarriage: Truman, 88.
“I wish you would send me”: HST to Ralph Truman, February 23, 1923, HSTL.
“It is now 10:20”: Quoted in Truman, 90.
She would wait for hours: Ibid.
“You be a good girl”: HST to EWT, July 21, 1923, Dear Bess, 314.
Nurse Kinnaman’s account of baby’s birth: From reporter Champ Clark’s files dated February 1951, Time-Warner archives.
“He has the most magnetic personality”: Quoted in Schlesinger, The Crisis of the Old Order, 376–77.
“He kept his feelings to himself” Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 127.
“The record of the county court”: Kansas City Star, July 17, 1924.
“To even talk about throwing” Independence Sentinel, undated, General Family Files, HSTL.
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