“Cut your speech”: Quoted in Daniels, 202.
“I just wanted to come down”: Ibid.
“I believe in”: HST quoted in Helm, 137.
“When we are honest enough”: Speech before National Colored Democratic Association Convention, July 14, 1940, HSTL.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch cartoon: March 29, 1940.
“enough errors to give me”: Quoted in Daniels, 205
“The decent, honest”: St. Louis Globe-Democrat (undated), Messall Scrapbooks, HSTL.
Truman urged to release letter: Daniels, 205.
Stark’s chauffeur: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 141.
“Lloyd’s ambitions”: Ibid., 132–33.
foreclosure on farm: Kansas City Star, July 17, 1940, Messall Scrapbooks, HSTL.
thought he was having a heart attack: HST to EWT, November 15, 1941, Dear Bess, 468.
the shame she would feel: HST to EWT, August 13, 1940, ibid., 442.
“I’m thinking August 6”: HST to EWT, June 23, 1940, ibid., 440.
“Will call you from Sedalia”: Ibid.
“Anyway we found out”: HST to EWT, August 9, 1940, ibid., 441.
“He finally ended up”: Daniels, 209.
Bob Hannegan: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 24, 1944.
“Well…I guess”: Hinde, Oral History, HSTL.
it was Bess who answered: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 145.
“the machine vote”: Lloyd C. Stark to FDR, August 9, 1940, FDRL.
“I thought Wheeler and Jim Byrnes”: HST to EWT, August 10, 1940, Dear Bess, 441.
“Has my certification of election”: Edwin A. Halsey, telegram to HST, December 13, 1940, HSTL.
7. Patriot
“War has many faces”: Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream, 164.
“Locksley Hall” poem in wallet: Hillman, ed., Mr. President, 206.
“As I watched those white fires”: Quoted in Flower and Reeves, eds., The Taste of Courage, 135.
“We have everything to lose”: Kansas City Times, May 2, 1941.
Clark was destroying himself: HST to EWT, October 3, 1941, Dear Bess, 466.
“My relief of mind”: Pogue, George C. Marshall: Ordeal and Hope, 59.
Marshall told him he was too old: HST “Autobiographical Sketch,” HSTL.
Washington a different city: Green, Washington, 466–73; Brinkley, Washington Goes to War.
“a little investigation”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 165.
automobile odysseys: Ibid.
“getting ruined…And there were men”: Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 175.
“There’s too much that is wrong”: Helm, Harry Truman, 151.
“It is a considerable sin”: Schlesinger and Bruns, Congress Investigates. A Documented History, 1792–1974, 3121.
it “must be assumed that”: Pogue, 108.
Nye Committee: Baruch, Public Years, 269.
“The thing to do”: Time, March 8, 1943.
Byrnes $10,000 committee funding: Memoirs, Vol. I, 166.
“Looks like I’ll get something”: HST to EWT, March 19, 1941, Dear Bess, 456.
“The political situation”: HST to EWT, August 1, 1939, ibid., 416.
Hugh Fulton: Memoirs, Vol. I, 167.
departure of Messall: Tom Evans, Oral History, HSTL.
“What are you fishing for?” Executive Session, June 8, 1942, Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, United States Senate, NA.
“You give a good leader”: Papers of George C. Marshall, Vol. 2, 483.
“There was no attempt”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 171.
saved the government $250 million: Riddle, The Truman Committee, 147.
gallbladder attack: U.S. Army Medical Records, 1941, HSTL; Truman, Bess W. Truman, 200–01.
“My standing in the Senate”: HST to EWT, June 19, 1941, Dear Bess, 457.
“If we see that Germany”: The New York Times, June 24, 1941.
“Last year he ran”: U.S. Army Medical Records, 1941, HSTL.
pressed by Vandenberg: Schlesinger and Bruns, 3127.
“Well I spent yesterday”: HST to EWT, August 21, 1941, Dear Bess, 461–62.
“studious avoidance of dramatics”: Salter, ed., Public Men In and Out of Office, 12.
“’Slightly built, bespectacled”: Tri-County News, Long City, Missouri (undated), Messall Scrapbooks, HSTL.
“Mr. Lewis, you are not seriously”: John L. Lewis testimony, March 26, 1943, Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, United States Senate, NA, 55.
“Standard Oil” and I. G. Farben: HST Broadcast, “Rubber in America,” Blue Network, June 15, 1942, printed copy, HSTL.
“First of all”: Truman before Senate, October 29. Congressional Record, 77th Congress, 1st Sess., 1941, Vol. XXCVII, 8303.
The record of the OPM: January 15, 1942, Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, United States Senate, 77th Congress, 2nd Sess., 6.
Lilienthal on war with Japan: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. I, 408.
“No matter what happens”: Boardman, From Harding to Hiroshima, 250.
“We have fought to get you”: Schlesinger and Bruns, 3131.
“Well at last I am sitting”: HST to EN, December 14, 1941, HSTL.
“Harry Truman was one of the”: Riedel, Halls of the Mighty, 173–75.
it would “impair our activity”: Gosnell, Truman’s Crises, 161.
unanimous reports: McCune and Beal, “The Job That Made Truman President,” Harper’s, June 1945.
“so close that a chorus girl”: Sevareid, 213.
“the return of Ceres”: HST to EWT, April 26, 1942, Dear Bess, 473.
Still he couldn’t sleep: HST to EWT, April 30, 1942, ibid., 474.
he called for a second front: Miscamble, “Evolution of an Internationalist,” Australian Journal of Politics and History, August 1977.
“If I were the executive”: Closed Hearing on Wright Aeronautical Corporation, May 24, 1943, Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, United States Senate, NA, 13.
Glenn Martin Company: Memoirs, 184.
Carnegie-Illinois Steel hearing: March 23, 1943, Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, United States Senate, NA, 820.
Stewart testimony: Ibid., 817.
“He cheated more than he was supposed”: Ibid., 833.
McGarrity testimony: Ibid., 837.
Irwin Works investigation: Ibid., 843–74.
“I don’t know anything about”: Ibid., 886.
Benjamin Fairless testimony: Ibid., 896–97.
asked by a reporter for his personal comment: Washington Post, March 24, 1943.
Canol Project: Testimony of General Brehon Somervell, December 20, 1943, Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, United States Senate, NA.
“The committee damns it up and down”: Drury, A Senate Journal, 29.
“all the desperate assertions”: Ibid.
reading Shakespeare and Plutarch: HST to EWT, June 18, 1942, Dear Bess, 477.
as if he had just stepped: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.
“One day in a typical”: Riedel, 174.
“I went up to the front desk”: The New Yorker, November 23, 1987.
“I am more surprised every day”: HST to EWT, August 21, 1942, Dear Bess, 487.
“The man from Missouri”: Pepper, with Gorey, Pepper, 129.
never heard him even try: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.
“One time, one Christmas”: Ardis Haukenberry, author’s interview.
“You have a good mind”: HST to MT, March 13, 1942, Truman, Letters from Father, 40.
“Tell my baby”: HST to EWT, July 22, 1942, Dear Bess, 480–81.
to “only just drop in”: HST to EWT, April 30, 1942, ibid., 474.
“Well this is the day”: HST to EWT, June 28, 1942, ibid., 480.
“one of the most useful”: Helm, 228.
Truman and his
committee known nationwide: Washington Star (undated), HSTL.
that “often a threat”: Business Week, June 26, 1943.
The whole country was greatly indebted: The Nation, January 24, 1942.
“objectivity at the total expense”: Krock, Memoirs, 220.
286Look poll: May 16, 1944.
He spoke at a huge rally: Chicago Daily News, April 15, 1943.
“hotels, filling stations”: HST to EWT, December 21, 1939, Dear Bess, 436.
merely talking about the Four Freedoms: Chicago Daily News, April 15, 1943.
Summer 1943 speaking tour: Miscamble, “The Evolution of an Internationalist.”
“History has bestowed”: Ibid.,
“We want aluminum”: Schlesinger and Bruns, 3129.
saved…as much as $15 billion: Memoirs, Vol. I, 186.
“He seems to be a generally”: Drury, 29.
“There are a number of times”: Ibid, 106.
“Now that’s a matter”: Telephone conversation between HST and Stimson, June 17, 1943, HSTL
“I know something about”: HST to Lewis Schwellenbach, July 15, 1943, HSTL.
“In my humble opinion”: Memorandum to Mildred Dryden, December 3, 1943, HST Senate Papers, HSTL.
“I have sent an investigator”: HST to Senator Thomas, November 30, 1943, HST Senate Papers, HSTL.
“COLONEL MATHIAS”: Fred Canfil to HST, December 7, 1943, HSTL.
“Whenever he finds out”: HST to EWT, October 25, 1942, Dear Bess, 491.
“The United States was engaged”: Martin, My First Fifty Years in Politics, 100–01.
“He threatened me with dire consequences”: Stimson Diary, Yale University.
8. Numbered Days
being talked of as candidate: HST to EW, May 7, 1943, HSTL.
“Leadership is what we Americans”: Truman, “We Can Lose the War,” American Magazine, November 1942.
key man in the “conspiracy”: Quoted in HST memorandum to Jonathan Daniels, HSTL.
Flynn admires Wallace: The New Yorker, September 8, 1945.
First meeting with FDR: Flynn, You’re the Boss; Allen, Presidents Who Have Known Me.
“I felt that he would never”: Flynn, 179.
Secretly, he was under: Bishop, FDR’s Last Year, 94.
Hannegan on Wallace: Brown, James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, A Remembrance (manuscript), 255–56.
Byrnes influence on FDR: Ibid., 259.
“I did conclude”: Quoted in Byrnes, All in One Lifetime, 221.
“Now, partner”: Quoted in Brown, 258.
somebody else “we have got”: Quoted in Daniels, The Man from Missouri, 243.
Loss of New York: Flynn, 180.
“The Negro has not only”: Quoted in Brown, 264–66.
When they went through the list: Flynn, 181.
“His record as head”: Ibid.
FDR asked a favor: Anna Rosenberg, author’s interview.
smuggle in jars of caviar: Ibid.
“I don’t want to be”: Quoted in Helm, Harry Truman, 220.
the word from “informed sources”: Drury, A Senate Journal, 215–16.
“The Madam doesn’t want”: Max Lowenthal, Oral History, HSTL.
“It is funny”: HST to MT, July 9, 1944, Margaret Truman, Letters from Father, 55.
“opened up on politics”: Wallace, The Price of Vision, 361.
“Mr. President, if you can find”: Ibid., 362.
“Think of the catcalls”: Ibid.
“It was as though”: Drury, 216.
“Jimmy Byrnes”: Quoted in Brown, 269.
the decisive meeting: Allen, 128–29.
“I gathered that he felt”: Ickes Diary, July 16, 1944, LC.
“the only one who had”: Wallace, 366.
a new Gallup Poll: Allen, 130.
“Well, I am looking”: Wallace, 367.
“Look at the expressions”: Quoted in Brown, 276.
“Mr. President, all I have heard”: Ibid.
“You are the best qualified”: Quoted in Byrnes, 222.
“I don’t understand it”: Ibid., 223.
“I told them so”: Ibid, 224–25.
“We have to be”: Ibid.
Byrnes went directly down: Ibid.
Truman accepted at once: Ibid., 226.
Truman to nominate Barkley: Barkley, That Reminds Me, 189.
As Alben Barkley would write: Ibid., 190.
Arthur Krock: The New York Times, July 16, 1944.
“Roosevelt could, of course”: Allen, 130.
“The train stood”: Tully, F.D.R., My Boss, 276.
“Dear Bob”: Robert Hannegan to FDR, July 14, 1944, HSTL.
“By naming Truman”: Tully, 276.
“The President has given”: Quoted in Byrnes, 226.
“Well, you know Jimmy”: Ibid., 226–27.
Hannegan showing note to no one: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 21, 1944.
He was determined to stay out: Salter, ed., Public Men In and Out of Office. 4–5.
“Hell, I don’t want”: Ibid.
“I don’t want that”: Quoted in Truman, Harry S. Truman, 183.
“I’m satisfied”: Tom Evans, Oral History, HSTL.
Writing years later, Margaret: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 227.
they “got Truman”: Edward McKim, Oral History, HSTL.
“I’m sure he wanted”: Quoted in Steinberg, The Man from Missouri, 203.
it wasn’t so much: John Snyder, author’s interview.
“that miserable time”: HST to Mrs. Emmy Southern, May 13, 1945, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 23.
“scared to death”: Childs, “He Didn’t Want the Job,” Liberty, September 23, 1944.
“I have been associated”: Washington Post, July 18, 1944.
“the coolest and cruelest”: Drury, 218.
“already soaring campaign stock”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 18, 1944.
“It was generally regarded”: Claude Pepper, author’s interview.
Hannegan’s corner suite: Life, July 31, 1944.
“Do you want to see it?”: Washington Post, July 28, 1944.
“Clear it with Sidney”: Quoted in Byrnes, 227.
Sidney Hillman: Time, July 24, 1944.
Hillman’s support: HST “Autobiographical Sketch,” HSTL.
“It’s Byrnes!”: Quoted in Flynn, 182.
“I browbeat the committee”: Ibid.
200,000 Negro votes: Byrnes, 228.
“Bob, it’s Truman”: Steinberg, 213.
An hour or so later: Byrnes, 229.
Turner Catledge account: The New York Times, July 19, 1944.
“If I were you”: Quoted in Barkley, 190.
“Feel sorry for me”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 19, 1944.
secret caucus: Time, July 31, 1944.
“the stage manager”: Barkley, 191.
“Whenever Roosevelt”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 192.
“Oh, shit”: George Elsey, Notes, Ayers Papers, HSTL.
“Well, if that’s the situation”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 193.
“Ye gods!”: Truman, Souvenir, 66.
“In a political”: Wallace, 368; Time, July 31, 1944.
“What is the job”: Quoted in Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 507.
“I sat there”: Claude Pepper, author’s interview.
“And then when I got”: Ibid.
“So I called Bob”: Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 194.
Martha Ellen Truman: Ibid., 149.
Interviewed by reporters: Washington Star, July 20, 1944.
Bennett Clark…pulled himself together: Miller, 194.
“a good deal of pressure”: The New York Times, July 22, 1944.
Truman and hot dog: Truman, Souvenir, 67.
“Christ Almighty”: Time, July 31, 1944.
he accepted “with all humility”: The New York Times, July 22, 1944.
“Now, give me a chance”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 22, 1944.
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p; “the Missouri Compromise”: Life, July 31, 1944.
“the Common Denominator”: Kansas City Star, July 22, 1944.
“I don’t object to Truman”: Baruch, The Public Years, 339.
one of the weakest candidates: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 23, 1944,
“the mousy little man”: Time, July 31, 1944.
“Poor Harry Truman”: New Republic, July 31, 1944.
“unusual capacity”: Kansas City Star, July 22, 1944.
“He has known the dust”: The New York Times, July 22, 1944.
an excellent choice: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 22, 1944.
Even Richard Strout: New Republic, July 31, 1944.
“On the credit side”: Drury, 220.
“Are we going to have to”: Quoted in Truman, Bess W. Truman, 231.
“Dad tried to be cheerful”: Ibid., 233.
Margaret learns of grandfather’s suicide: Ibid., 234.
“He seized my arm”: Ibid.
“I wish I could tell you”: Ibid., 235.
looking over the old gray Victorian house: Life, August 21, 1944.
“I had hoped”: Walton, Henry Wallace, Harry Truman and the Cold War, 20–21.
the critical part played by Ed Flynn: The New Yorker, September 8, 1945.
“People seemed to think”: Daniels, 259.
his father’s “irritability”: Roosevelt and Shalett, Affectionately, F.D.R., 351–52.
FDR seizure: Ibid.
FDR lunch with Truman: There has been speculation that at this lunch Roosevelt told Truman about the atomic bomb. The source is an interview with Truman’s friend Tom Evans made many years later as part of the Truman Library’s oral history program. There is no possibility that it is correct, since the President’s daughter, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, was also present at the lunch, as were a half dozen or so photographers, cameramen, and servants. Nor would Roosevelt have brought up the matter on such an occasion in any event.
“I wonder why we are made”: HST to EWT, December 28, 1945, Off the Record, 75.
“I am not a deep thinker”: Wallace, The Price of Vision, 373.
“smarter by far”: Martin, My First Fifty Years in Politics, 176.
FDR told Truman not to travel: Memoirs, Vol. I, 5.
FDR’s hand shook: Truman, Harry S. Truman, p. 203.
“You should have seen”: Ibid., 201.
He was greatly concerned: Harry Vaughan, Oral History, HSTL.
Ed McKim and Truman: McKim, Oral History, HSTL.
“Harry is a fine man”: Hatch, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 376.
“There never was a greater”: HST to EWT, June 15, 1946, Dear Bess, 526.
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