Klan rally: Daniels, 126.
“You did what your gang told you”: Henry P. Chiles, Oral History, HSTL.
Kansas City Automobile Club: Autobiography, 59.
“This is almost like campaigning”: HST to EWT, November 9, 1926, Dear Bess, 323.
“If one thing did not work”: Marks, Oral History, HSTL.
called the Citizens Security: Daniels, 134–35.
“kind of a cold bird”: Mary Salisbury Bostian, author’s interview
“Anybody who’s ever been a friend”: Hinde, Oral History, HSTL.
“used me for his own ends”: Pickwick Papers”, HSTL.
“a no-good bastard”: Jonathan Daniels interview notes, September 25, 1949, HSTL.
run for county collector: Memoirs, Vol. I, 139.
Collector’s job: Daniels, 138.
“No criticism or scandals”: Independence Examiner, July 27, 1928.
“Every subject of debate”: New Republic, April 30, 1945.
“We intend to operate”: Independence Examiner, January 3, 1927.
spinning about in Judge Truman’s swivel chair: Robert Pendergast, author’s interview.
nervous breakdown: Ibid.
“You Can’t do it”: Quoted in Daniels, 145.
“I told the voters”: Ibid., 146.
“Here were hundreds of square miles”: Results of County Planning, 7, 9.
Farm on Blue Ridge Boulevard: Ibid., 97.
“Oh! If I were only John D. Rockefeller”: Pickwick Papers, HSTL.
“a loudmouthed, profane, vulgar”: FOIPA No. 297,745, FBI.
“What the hell do you do”: Ibid.
The facts about Canfil: Ibid.
“Fred’s a little rough” Quoted in Steinberg, The Man from Missouri., 257.
“Character excellent”: FOIPA No. 297,745, FBI.
an equestrain bronze of Andrew Jackson: Steinberg,95.
“I wanted a real man”: Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 139.
“that I either had to run away”: HST to EWT, February 12, 1931, Dear Bess, 343.
“and every person I’ve ever had”: “Pickwick Papers”, HSTL.
exceptionally fit: U.S. Army Personnel Records, 1925, 1936, HSTL.
“I haven’t had a headache”: HST to EWT, July 13, 1927, Dear Bess, 329.
“We didn’t have any equipment”: Vaughan, Oral History, HSTL.
“I’ve been around Legion conventions”: Hinde, Oral History, HSTL.
“Three things ruin a man”: Quoted in New York Post December 29, 1972.
“I never wanted power”: Ibid.
Truman buying seat covers: Kansas City Star, November 14, 1990.
attempt to kidnap Margaret: From reporter Champ Clark’s file dated February 1951, Time-Warner archives.
“While it looks good”: HST to EWT, August 27, 1933, Dear Bess, 358.
“Politics should make a thief”: HST to EWT, May 7, 1933, ibid., 353.
“The Boss wanted me”: “Pickwick Papers”, HSTL.
Meeting with Pendergast: Daniels, 146–47.
Harry’s later account: “Pickwick Papers”, HSTL.
“Didn’t I tell you boys”: Daniels, 147.
“And That’s God’s truth”: Miller, Plain Speaking, 137.
“He, in times past”: “Pickwick Papers”, HSTL.
“Loved the ladies”: Ibid.
“Since childhood at my mother’s”: Ibid.
“This sweet associate of mine” Ibid.
Pendergast lecturing: Ibid.
To little Sue Ogden: Sue Ogden Bailey, author’s interview.
“And this was a disaster!”: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.
Sue Ogden’s memories: Bailey, author’s interview.
“I never heard a squabble’: Vietta Garr quoted in Kansas City Star, April 18, 1945.
“I was an only child”: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.
“I could twist him”: Ibid.
“My manners were expected”: Truman, 109.
“Her presence”: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.
“Yes, I spoiled him”; Kansas City Star April 18, 1945.
“She liked Mamma Truman”: Truman, 109.
Once when she offered food: J.C. Truman, author’s interview.
189The Capture of the Clever One: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.
“I want her to do everything”: HST to EWT, July 17, 1929, Dear Bess, 338.
“The car was washed” Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.
“Straight, absolutely straight”: Ibid.
“He read all the weather maps”: Ibid.
“How does Harry put up”: Mary Shaw Branton, author’s interview.
“It was very hard”: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.
picked Number 369: Sue Gentry in Independence Examiner, April 25, 1979.
Harpie Club: Daniels, 152.
“He liked his walk”: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.
the town directory: Independence City Directory, 1934.
“Just think of all those wasted years”: HST to EWT, July 22, 1930, Dear Bess, 339.
“Have you practiced your music?”: HST to EWT and MT, July 10, 1932, ibid., 347.
“You may yet be the first lady”: Daniel, 117.
over lunch with…Eric Sevareid: Sevareid, “A Truly Great Man,” McCall’s, March 1973.
“He loved politics”: Marks, Oral History, HSTL.
hadn’t he been a late bloomer: Noland, Oral History, HSTL.
“There, he struck his gait”: Ibid.
6. The Senator from Pendergast
“Friends don’t count”: Autobiography, 74.
Francis M. Wilson: Kansas City Star, February 2, 1982.
“It was my big day”: Autobiography, 71.
Excelsior Springs seclusion: Ibid.
“It will be much better”: HST to Robert Ragland, January 17, 1923, HSTL.
“long as the Big Boss”: HST to EWT, April 14, 1933, Dear Bess, 348.
“understood political situations”: Autobiography, 83.
Big Boss began letting votes go: Dorsett, The Pendergast Machine, 106–07.
“I had a fine talk”: HST to EWT, April 23, 1933, Dear Bess, 350.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”: Kansas City Star, July 4, 1976.
McElroy would later claim: Art Brisbane, “Kansas City Needs an Honest Boss Tom,” Kansas City Star, May 3, 1982.
Pendergast would listen attentively: Kansas City Times, April 21, 1986.
“Why shouldn’t they be?”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 12, 1937.
“The machine did small favors”: Dorothy Davis Johnson, author’s interview.
“the most efficient city government”: Reddig, Tom’s Town, 128.
“kind of gentleness”: Monsignor Arthur Tighe, author’s interview.
“See…there just wasn’t any law”: John Doohan, author’s interview.
“The clubs stayed open all night”: Ibid.
Kidnapping of McElroy’s daughter: Reddig, 255–56.
“Now Jim”: Congressional Record, February 20, 1934.
“Union Station massacre”: Reddig, 257-59.
new county courthouse: Independence Examiner, September 7, 1933.
“During the six and one half years”: Ibid.
“During these years of strenuous service”: Ibid.
“maneuvered out”: Quoted in Memoirs, Vol. I, 141.
Truman meeting with Jim Pendergast and Aylward: James Aylward, Oral History, HSTL; correspondence in the collection of Joe and Catherine Pruett.
Pendergast offer to Joe Shannon: Daniels, The Man of Independence, 167.
“A very pleasant sort of fellow”: Quoted in Helm, Harry Truman, 32–33.
“Tomorrow, today, rather”: “Pickwick Papers,” HSTL.
“It was 104 yesterday”: Letter from Jim Pendergast to Kathleen Pendergast, postmarked July 4, 1934, Pruett Collection.
“a congressman’s congressman”: Quoted in Childs, I Write from Washington, 96–97.
“wheels-with-wheels”: Ibid.
“It will be remembered that”: News-Press, July 6, 1934, Fred Canfil Scrapbooks, HSTL.
Johnny Lazia killing: Kansas City Journal-Post, July 10, 1934.
“tell him I love him”: Ibid.
“There were at least ten thousand”: Jim Pendergast letter to Kathleen Pendergast, undated, Pruett Collection.
“It seems my old friend”: Kansas City Star, July 11, 1934.
a huge picnic in Clay County: News-Press, July 16, 1934, Fred Canfil Scrapbooks, HSTL.
“For this bellhop of Pendergast’s”: Kansas City Star, July 29, 1934.
“Judge Truman is unobtrusive”: St. Louis Globe-Democrat (undated), Fred Canfil Scrapbooks, HSTL.
“mendacity and imbecility”: El Dorado Springs (Missouri) Gazette, July 23, 1934.
“Why, Senator Clark is”: United Press, July 30, 1934, Fred Canfil Scrapbooks, HSTL.
Since 1930, more than eighteen thousand: Missouri Historical Review, Vol. 29, July 1935.
“such as to make any human”: Kansas City Star, July 31, 1934.
“Fact is, I like roads”: Hersey, Aspects of the Presidency, 37.
Canfil would check out room: HST to EWT, October 25, 1942, Dear Bess, 491.
scrapbook of the campaign: Fred Canfil Scrapbooks, HSTL.
“why, if Harry ever goes”: Kansas City Times, August 1, 1934.
On the day of the primary: Autobiography, 67.
“without significance”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 8, 1934.
a “push-over”: Autobiography, 68.
“skinny and all one color”: Mary Shaw Branton, author’s interview.
Fred Canfil descriptions: FOIPA No. 297,745, FBI.
“green as grass”: Quoted in Helm, 7.
Hatch and Schwellenbach friendly: Ibid., 70.
“He took the trouble”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 144.
“Harry, don’t start out with”: Ibid.
the Senator from Pendergast: Miller, Plain Speaking, 158.
“Here was a guy”: Steinberg, The Man from Missouri. 125.
“doglike devotion”: Quoted in Helm, 13.
“It was quite an event”: Steinberg, 130.
“He came to the Senate”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 15, 1945.
“He was a better man”: Ibid.
his own passkey: Kansas City Journal-Post (undated), Messall Scrapbooks, 1933–41, HSTL.
“By the time his colleagues”: Ibid.
“If you will send us”: HST to L.T. Slayton, February 5, 1935, HSTL.
“political monster”: Congressional Record, February 30, 1935, 2352–59.
Thereafter Long refused to speak: Memoirs, Vol. I, 146.
“He sits in the back row”: Kansas City Journal-Post (undated), Messall Scrapbooks, 1933–41, HSTL.
“He speaks rarely”: Ibid.
“I’m going to be better informed”: HST to EWT, December 11, 1935, Dear Bess, 382.
“I’ll take all the dinners”: HST to EW, December 6, 1937, ibid., 408.
He burned them all: Memoirs, Vol. I, 157.
“I was a New Dealer from the start”: Ibid., 149.
“As the old political saying goes”: Quoted in Barkley, That Reminds Me, 155.
“I liked Harry”: Claude Pepper, author’s interview.
“a hot wave”: HST to EWT, August 15, 1935, Dear Bess, 377.
read Southall Freeman: HST to EWT, July 9, 1955, ibid., 369.
“No one has done more”: HST to EWT, August 19, 1935, ibid., 378.
“a grand big house”: HST to EWT, June 29, 1935, ibid., 366.
“Found a rather nice place”: HST to EWT, July 17, 1935, ibid., 372.
bus fare and bathing suit: HST to EWT, July 3, 1935, ibid., 367.
“big enough for two”: HST to EWT, December 5, 1937, ibid., 407.
“I am hoping to make”: HST to EWT, June 28, 1935, ibid., 365.
“Pendergast was as pleased”: HST to EWT, July 29, 1935, ibid., 374.
“as pleased to see me”: HST to EWT, August 11, 1935, ibid., 376.
“Pendergast and the very blond”: Childs, 111.
“Confidentially, I had a fine visit”: Lloyd C. Stark to HST, March 22, 1935, HSTL.
Pendergast at Wilson’s funeral: Kansas City Star archives.
“He won’t do”: Jonathan Daniels interview notes, November 12, 1949, HSTL; Daniels, The Man of Independence, 181.
“The old man had better judgment”: Quoted in Daniels, 181.
“the most grateful man”: Autobiography, 73.
“Kind of hard on Bennett”: HST to EWT, June 22, 1935, Dear Bess, 365.
“And while I heard”: Quoted in Helm, 10.
“The vast expenditures”: Childs, 110.
Pendergast ill: Kansas City Times, January 27, 1945.
“We all found Truman”: Quoted in Louchheim, ed., The Making of the New Deal, 243.
“But he showed no signs”: Ibid.
“When the Senator from Missouri”: Quoted in Steinberg, 127.
“He was always going out of his way”: Ibid., 126.
“Never in all the years”: Mildred Dryden, Oral History, HSTL.
liked Harry Truman “instinctively”: Barkley, 155.
“H. is worn out”: EWT to EN, undated, HSTL.
“tell” Harry how to vote: Helm, 51.
“Jim Aylward phoned me”: Ibid.
By going to Pendergast: Daniels, 180.
tired of being “pushed around”: Helm, 53.
“The pressure on me”: HST quoted in Barkley, 155–56.
“I always admired him”: Ibid.
“I just can’t stand it”: HST to EWT, January 5, 1935, Dear Bess, 391.
he “played hooky”: HST to EWT, February 11, 1937, ibid., 397.
“This so-called committee work”: HST to EWT, November 7, 1937, ibid., 403.
“Not once did I ever see him”: Quoted in Helm, 11.
“a sense of continually being tired”: U.S. Army Medical Records, September 13, 1937, HSTL.
“They are charming people”: HST to Marvin Mclntyre, October 11, 1936, FDRL.
“That son-of-a-bitch”: Steinberg, 167.
“A couple of kids”: HST to EWT, October 29, 1937, Dear Bess, 402.
“Today is my father’s birthday”: HST to EWT, December 5, 1937, ibid., 407.
Brandeis teas: Daniels, 185–86.
“slightly awesome institution”: Childs, 43.
not accustomed to meeting such people: Daniels, 186.
Brandeis had spent more time: HST to EWT, December 13, 1937, Dear Bess, 409.
“It was a rather exclusive”: HST to EWT, December 13, 1937, ibid., 100.
“certainly in agreement on the dangers”: HST quoted in Miller, 151.
December 20, 1937, speech: Congressional Record, December 20, 1937, 2482–95.
“It probably will catalogue me”: HST to EWT, December 12, 1937, Dear Bess, 409.
The speech was front-page news: The New York Times, December 21, 1937.
Max Lowenthal comments about pressure: Daniels, 185.
“an innate part of his personality”: Gosnell, Truman’s Crises, 129.
“We must not close our eyes”: Messall Scrapbooks, HSTL.
Pendergast betting: Reddig, 278; Kansas City Star, December 27, 1974.
“Don’t ever take any money”: Quoted in Kansas City Star, March 1, 1984.
Truman speech on February 15, 1938: Congressional Record, February 15, 1938, 1962–64.
“The manner in which the juries”: John Oliver, author’s interview.
“in view of my speech”: Kansas City Star, September 15, 1978.
“They figure they’ll need”: HST to EWT, November 17, 1938, Dear Bess, 412.
“If it is true”: Reddig, 303–04.
“Please help Sa
m Finklestein”: T.J. Pendergast to HST, undated, HSTL.
“I am sure he had”: Helm, 47.
“I am very sorry”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, undated, Messall Scrapbooks, HSTL.
“The terrible things”: HST to EWT, October 1, 1939, HSTL.
“He was broke”: Edgar Hinde, Oral History, HSTL.
“Looks like everybody got rich”: HST to EWT, October 27, 1939, Dear Bess, 426.
“I believe if I did know him”: Kansas City Star, May 22, 1939.
“At no time”: Quoted in Daniels, 196.
“He has earned the high estimate”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 12, 1939.
“If Governor Stark runs”: Associated Press (undated), Messall Scrapbooks, HSTL.
“I do not think”: HST to EWT, August 8, 1939, Dear Bess, 418.
“Tell them to go to hell”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 130.
“the wise boys”: Quoted in Drew Pearson column (undated), Messall Scrapbooks, HSTL.
Washington premiere: HST to EWT, October 18, 1939, Dear Bess, 426.
mortgage on the farm: Daniels, 192.
“mighty blue”: HST to EWT, September 22, 1939, Dear Bess, 419.
“I am of the opinion”: Miscamble, “The Evolution of an Internationalist,” Australian Journal of Politics and History, August 1977.
“You know it makes some of us”: HST to EW, November 11, 1939, Dear Bess, 428.
“a pleasure trip”: HST to EWT, November 16, 1939, ibid., 430.
“a regular fellow”: HST to EWT, November 22, 1939, ibid., 431.
“This, you know”: HST to EWT, December 1, 1939, ibid., 432.
“I guess I’m not built”: HST to EWT, December 1, 1939, ibid.
“Harry, I don’t think”: Quoted in Daniels, 198.
“if he gets only two votes”: Quoted in Helm, 126.
reelection announcement: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 5, 1940.
opposed to FDR third term: Ibid.
“There is no indispensable man”: Hassett, “The President Was My Boss,” Saturday Evening Post, November 28, 1953.
“We borrowed clerks”: John Snyder, Oral History, HSTL.
“A United States Senator…sleeping”: Quoted in Miller, 166.
“At sixteen”: Quoted in Truman, Harry S. Truman, 139.
“While the President is unreliable”: HST to EWT, September 24, 1939, Dear Bess, 420.
Bernard Baruch contribution: Byrnes, All in One Lifetime, 101.
America “ought to sell”: Miscamble, “Evolution of an Internationalist.”
Tom Evans, who was twelve years: Evans, Oral History, HSTL.
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