a “nightmare of a house”: The New York Times, August 3, 1945.
“They erected a couple of”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 50.
“wholly inadequate”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 9.
“He comes from Owensborough”: HST to MET and MJT, January 27, 1947, HSTL.
Bohlen, too, was struck: Bohlen, Witness to History, 226.
“astonishingly well prepared”: Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 485.
“Mr. Russia” and “Mr. Great Britain”: HST Diary, July 7, 1945, Off the Record, 49.
“half so badly”: HST to EWT, February 19, 1916, Dear Bess, 187.
“I’ve studied more”: HST to EWT, May 26, 1918, HSTL.
“Haven’t you ever been”: Woolf, “President Truman Talks About His Job,” The New York Times Magazine, July 15, 1945.
Prime Minister padding down the hall: Wilroy and Prinz, Inside the Blair House, 7–8.
Eleanor Roosevelt had written: Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone, 29.
“I must confess, sir”: See note for page 874, Chap. 17.
“He says he is sure”: Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill. Never Despair, 61.
“We had a most pleasant”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945, Off the Record, 51.
“Very Secret, Urgent”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. I, 876.
Sato responded: Ibid., 883.
“good soldiers and millions”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945, Off the Record, 52.
“It is a terrible thing”: The New York Times, July 17, 1945.
“I never saw such destruction”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 341.
“absolute ruin”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945, Off the Record, 52.
modern war…“brought home”: Leahy, I Was There, 396.
“I thought of Carthage”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945, Off the Record, 52.
He kept thinking: HST to EWT, July 20, 1945, Dear Bess, 520.
“This is what would have happened”: Gilbert, 61.
Anne O’Hare McCormick column: The New York Times, July 18, 1945.
“Operated on this morning”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 1360.
“Promptly a few minutes”: HST Diary, July 17, 1945, Off the Record, 53.
The truth was: Volkogonov, Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy, 499.
As Stalin got out of the car: George Elsey, author’s interview.
“I got to my feet”: HST Diary, July 17, 1945, Off the Record, 53.
“A little bit of a squirt”: Film Collection, HSTL.
Stalin sure Hitler was alive and in hiding: Byrnes, Speaking Frankly, 68.
“as agreed at Yalta”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 1586.
“You could if you wanted to”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 541.
“and I felt hopeful”: Ibid., 342.
“The truth is he is a very likeable person”: Byrnes, 45.
“honest—but smart as hell”: HST Diary, July 17, 1945, Off the Record, 53.
“He’ll be in the Jap War”: Ibid.
Time magazine on Stalin: Time, February 5, 1945.
“There was little in Stalin’s demeanor”: Bohlen, 340.
“When one man dies”: Antonov-Ovseyenko, The Time of Stalin: Portrait of Tyranny, 278.
“I was impressed”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 340–42.
“Since the Yalta Conference”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 643.
“Churchill said he should like”: Ibid, p. 54.
“So tomorrow we will have prepared”: Ibid., 61.
“Let’s divide it”: Ibid, p. 59.
“woolly and verbose”: Gilbert, 65.
HST took as act of disloyalty: HST to MT, July 29, 1945, HSTL.
“The boys say”: HST to EWT, July 18, 1945, Dear Bess, 519.
“Churchill talks all the time”: HST to MET and MJT, July 18, 1945, HSTL.
“Doctor had just returned”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 1360–61.
HST appeared extremely pleased: Churchill, 554.
“at any rate they had something”: Ehrman, Grand Strategy, 302–03.
“lull the Japanese”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 1588.
Stalin’s disclosure: Bohlen, 236.
The Generalissimo must visit: HST Diary, July 18, 1945, Off the Record, 54.
“We cannot get away”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 96.
“I’m not going to stay”: HST Diary, July 18, 1945, Off the Record, 54.
To Bess, earlier in the day: HST to EWT, July 18, 1945, Dear Bess, 519.
“Believe Japs”: HST Diary, July 18, 1945, Off the Record, 54.
“sick of the whole business”: HST to EWT, July 20, 1945, Dear Bess, 520.
“A young Army captain”: The New York Times, August 14, 1945.
“The old man loves music”: HST to EWT, July 20, 1945, Dear Bess, 520.
“He was direct, unpretentious”: Bradley and Blair, A General’s Life, 444.
Eisenhower opposed use of the bomb: Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe, 443.
Eisenhower would concede: Eisenhower, Eisenhower at War, 1943–1945, 692.
truly believed that “Manhattan”: HST Diary, July 18, 1945, Off the Record, 54.
“But all of us wanted”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 316.
“We are here today”: PP, HST, July 20, 1945, 195.
“of lasting inspiration”: Clay, Decision in Germany, 44–45.
“General, there is nothing”: Bradley and Blair, 444–45.
“Uncle Joe looked”: HST Diary, July 20, 1945, Off the Record, 55.
“immensely powerful document”: Stimson Diary, July 21, 1945.
“successful beyond the most optimistic”: Groves Memorandum, Foreign Policy of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 1362.
HST and Byrnes both looked pleased: Stimson Diary, July 21, 1945.
“It was apparent”: Murphy, Diplomat Among Warriors, 273.
“We will not recognize”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 216.
the Russians had no intention: Leahy, 406.
“Started with caviar”: HST to MET and MJT, July 23, 1945, HSTL.
“He talked to me confidently”: HST to EWT, July 22, 1945, Dear Bess, 521.
“Watch the President”: Moran, Diaries, 303.
“There was no pretense”: Rigdon, with Derieux, White House Sailor, 183–84.
“swagly.” “He never came on”: Floyd Boring, author’s interview.
“I thought it was nice”: Emilio Collado, Oral History, HSTL.
“I’m going to mass”: HST to EWT, July 22, 1945, HSTL.
“Although it was a target”: Stimson and Bundy, On Active Service in Peace and War, 625.
“prosecute the war against Japan”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 391.
“alone with his work”: Stimson Diary, July 24, 1945.
July 23, 1945, cable: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 1374.
“said that was just what he wanted”: Stimson Diary, July 24, 1945.
HST wrote of a consensus: Memoirs, Vol. I, 415.
“I asked General Marshall”: HST to Professor F. Cate, undated letter, HSTL.
battle casualties during HST’s three months in office: Army Battle Casualties and Nonbattle Deaths in World War II, Department of the Army.
“We had only too abundant”: Charlton Ogburn, Jr., author’s interview.
“The basic policy of the present”: Combined Intelligence Committee Report, July 8, 1945, HSTL.
conscription of Japanese people: The New York Times, Augu
st 5, 1985.
“the spirit of mercy”: Bohlen, 231.
“At no time, from 1941 to 1945”: Stimson and Bundy, 613.
“I know FDR”: Daniels, The Man of Independence, 281.
“I’ll say that we’ll end”: HST to EWT, July 18, 1945, Dear Bess, 519.
“It is just the same as artillery”: The New York Times, May 3, 1959.
“We knew the Japanese were determined”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 198.
A petition drawn up: Wyden, Day One, 180.
“Are not the men”: Compton, 242.
“It is hard to imagine”: Evan J. Young of Clinton Laboratories to M.D. Whittaker, undated, HSTL.
“What a question”: Compton, 247.
“The historic fact”: Churchill, 553.
“Truman made no decision”: George Elsey, author’s interview.
“The final decision”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 419.
HST later told Arthur Compton: Compton, 245.
“I casually mentioned to Stalin”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 416.
Stalin’s response offhand: Bohlen, 237.
“If he had had the slightest idea”: Churchill, 580.
“not grasped the importance”: Byrnes, 263.
“No one who played”: Ibid., 265.
“We have discovered”: HST Diary, July 25, 1945, Off the Record, 55.
“The idea of using the bomb”: Harriman and Abel, 490.
“We are asking for the reorganization”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 360.
“If a government”: Ibid.
an iron fence had descended: Ibid., 362.
“I do not want to fight”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 313.
“The question is not ripe”: Ibid., 373.
Churchill full of foreboding: Moran, 306.
“What a pity”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 389.
old order passing: HST Diary, July 30, 1945, Off the Record, 58.
It was too bad about Churchill: HST to MET and MJT, July 28, 1945, HSTL.
“enslaved as a race”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 392–93.
“kill it with silence”: Sherwin, A World Destroyed, 236.
“Mr. Attlee is not so keen”: HST to MET and MJT, July 29, 1945, HSTL.
“We shall see”: HST to EWT, July 29, 1945, Dear Bess, 522.
HST in an optimistic mood: Forrestal Diaries, 79.
“The time schedule on Groves’ ”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 1374.
“Suggestion approved”: Declassified “Urgent—Top Secret Message,” Stimson to HST, July 30, 1945: HST’s handwritten message on back, HSTL.
“Everything seemed momentous”: Elsey, author’s interview.
“We have accomplished a very great deal”: HST to EWT, July 25, 1945, Dear Bess, 521.
“Pray for me”: HST to EWT, July 29, 1945, ibid., 522.
“We are at an impasse”: HST Diary, July 30, 1945, Off the Record, 58.
“It is a question of give and take”: PP, HST, August 9, 1945, 209.
foolishness in the extreme: Kennan, Memoirs, 259, 290.
“Marshal Stalin I have accepted”: Murphy, 278.
Stalin broke in: Ibid., 279.
HST called Russians pigheaded: HST to MET and MJT, July 31, 1945, HSTL.
“police government”: HST Diary, July 26, 1945, Off the Record, 57.
“They went away”: Donovan, 73.
“I like Stalin”: HST to EWT, July 29, 1945, Dear Bess, 522.
“The President seemed to have been”: Ayers Diary, August 7, 1945, HSTL.
Stalin was a fine man: Wallace, The Price of Vision, 490.
“Stalin is as near”: Daniels, The Man of Independence, 23.
“an innocent idealist”: HST to Dean Acheson, March 15, 1957, unsent, Off the Record, 348–49.
“for operational purposes”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 1321.
Discussion of Poland’s frontier: Ibid., 597–601.
Stalin on HST: Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, 221.
“That will save two days”: HST to MET and MJT, July 31, 1945, HSTL.
HST found the King “very pleasant”: HST Diary, August 5, 1945, Off the Record, 59.
“Here was the greatest news story”: Smith, Thank You, Mr. President, 256.
“completely rested”: Official log of the Augusta, HSTL.
“Results clear-cut”: Memoirs, Vol. 1, 421.
“This is the greatest thing”: Smith, 257.
“Big bomb dropped”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 421.
“Please keep your seats”: The New York Times, August 7, 1945.
“He was not actually laughing”: Smith, 258.
“We were all excited”: Elsey, author’s interview.
“Sixteen hours ago”: PP, HST, August 6, 1945, 196–200.
“But even if my legs”: Kansas City Star, July 28, 1965.
“Some of our scientists”: Leahy Diary, August 8, 1945, LC.
“ultimatum to end all ultimatums”: The New York Times, August 8, 1945.
Stimson and Marshall worried: Mosley, Marshall. Hero for Our Times, 338.
“Additional bombs”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 420.
“For the second time”: L.A. Times, August 9, 1945.
Russell telegram to HST: Richard B. Russell to HST, undated, HSTL.
HST note to Russell: HST to Richard B. Russell, August 9, 1945, HSTL.
“I realize the tragic significance”: PP, HST, August 9, 1945, 212.
“Would it not be wondrous?”: Washington Times, August 6, 1985.
“Could we continue”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 428.
Stimson said the emperor: Ibid.
“we’d tell ’em how to keep him”: HST Diary, August 10, 1945, Off the Record, 61.
“subject to the Supreme Commander”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 429.
“all those kids”: Wallace, 474.
“Nearly every crisis seems to be”: HST to MET and MJT, August 12, 1945, HSTL.
“it began like the days”: Ayers Diary, August 14, 1945, HSTL.
“might get a story”: Sue Gentry, author’s interview.
“I have received this afternoon”: PP, HST, August 14, 1945, 216.
“I felt deeply moved”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 437.
“This is a great day”: The New York Times, August 15, 1945.
“The only thing new”: Miller, Plain Speaking, 69.
“Everyone had been going”: HST to MET and MJT, August 17, 1945, Off the Record, 62.
Part Four
11. The Buck Stops Here
“Everybody wants something”: HST to MET and MJT, September 22, 1945, HSTL.
more prima donnas per square foot: HST to MET and MJT, October 23, 1945, HSTL.
“You can’t do anything worthwhile”: PP, HST, October 7, 1945, 380.
“cut out the foolishness”: Ibid., October 10, 1945, 394.
“We must go on”: Ibid., September 6, 1945, 291.
Wallace’s estimate of drop in GNP: Wallace, The Price of Vision, 495.
“The Congress are balking”: HST to MET and MJT, October 23, 1945, HSTL.
“Anything else, Mr. President?”: PP, HST, September 18, 1945, 326.
“If anyone in the government”: HST to EWT, June 22, 1945, Dear Bess, 523.
“The pressure here”: HST to MET and MJT, October 13, 1945, HSTL.
“We can’t stand another global war”: PP, HST, October 7, 1945, 381.
“did everything…mouth of a cannon”: Quoted in Phillips, The Truman Presidency, 129.
“in the doldrums”: Ayers Diary, October 19, 1945, HSTL.
call for universal military training: PP, HST, October 23, 1945, 404, 413.
HST shows new presidential flag: Ibid., October 25, 1945, 415–417.
“It was disintegration”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 509.
“Tiny lines had grown”:
Gunther, Procession, 260.
Encounter with Oppenheimer: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 118.
“See what a son-of-a-bitch”: Quoted in Wallace, 519.
Marshall ends call abruptly: Miller, Plain Speaking, 252.
“paid much less attention”: Samuel Rosenman, Oral History, HSTL.
“Mr. President, you should know”: Wallace, 530.
“wild accidents”: Quoted in Lerner, Actions and Passions, 219.
“one of the most hazardous”: Time, December 8, 1947.
“Well I’m here in the White House”: HST to EWT, December 28, 1945, Dear Bess, 523–24.
“able and conniving”: HST Diary, July 7, 1945, in Ferrell, ed, Off the Record, 49.
“I told him I did not like”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 550.
“a horse’s ass”: Clifford quoted in Jonathan Daniels interview notes, HSTL.
Acheson impressions of HST: Acheson, Present at the Creation, 136.
HST longhand letter for Byrnes: HST to James F. Byrnes, January 5, 1946, unsent, Off the Record, 79–80
“1946 is our year of decision”: PP, HST, January 3, 1946, 1.
“This is a disaster”: Quoted in Goulden, The Best Years 1945–1950, 113.
“I personally think there is”: PP, HST, January 24, 1946, 92.
The “blunt truth”: Time, January 14, 1946.
Chicago Tribune cartoon: Reprinted in Time, February 4, 1946.
“at best, undistinguished”: MacKaye, “Things Are Different in the White House,” Saturday Evening Post, April 20, 1946.
People were “befuddled”: HST to MET and MJT, January 23, 1946, HSTL.
“An oil man”: Ayers Diary, January 18, 1946, HSTL.
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.
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