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by David McCullough

  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.