“I am going through a terrible”: HST to WC, July 10, 1948, Truman, Letters from Father, 110.
“The President greeted us rather solemnly”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 388–89.
“This is no time”: Ibid., 391.
“If what worried the President”: Ibid.
Truman held Forrestal: Forrestal Diaries, 461.
seemed lately unable to “take hold”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 386.
“I went down the river”: HST to MJT, July 26, 1948, HSTL.
“No, we’re not going to give”: Quoted in Donovan, 411.
“They sure are in a stew”: HST to EWT, July 23, 1948, Dear Bess, 66.
“For a number of years”: Phillips, 369.
“a ‘red herring’ “: PP, HST, August 5, 1948, 433.
“Entirely”: Ibid., August 12, 1948, 438.
floor of Margaret’s room: HST to MJT, August 10, 1948, HSTL.
“Can you imagine?”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 329.
“Margaret’s sitting room”: HST to MJT, August 10, 1948, HSTL.
“old Abe’s bed”: Ibid.
14. Fighting Chance
“It will be the greatest”: HST to MJT, October 5, 1948, HSTL.
“There were no deep-hid schemes”: Ross, “How Truman Did It,” Collier’s, December 24, 1948.
“It’s going to be tough”: Ibid.
“I have a terrible feeling”: HST Diary, September 13, 1948, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 149.
“Every grade crossing”: The New Yorker, October 9, 1948.
“I’m going to give ’em hell”: Time, September 27, 1948.
Gallup Poll: Gallup, The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 1935–1971, 757.
“My whole inclination”: Time, September 13, 1948.
“Cadillac Square”: Matt Connelly, Oral History, HSTL.
“You remember the big boom”: PP, HST, September 18, 1948, 504.
plow the straightest furrows: Ibid., 506.
“You stayed at home in 1946”: Ibid., 501.
“Understand me, when I speak”: Ibid., September 20, 1948, 518.
“Selfish men have always”: Ibid., September 21, 1948, 531.
“sharp speeches”: Donovan, Conflict and Crisis, 425.
These “little speeches”: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”
“Oh, I wish my grandfather”: PP, HST, September 21, 1948, 531.
“They tell me [he said at Mojave]”: Ibid., September 23, 1948, 554.
“I’m here on a serious mission”: Ibid., September 22, 1948, 544.
“In 1946, you know”: Ibid., September 20, 1948, 512, 514.
“Give ’em hell”: Clark Clifford, author’s interview.
“I never gave anybody hell”: The New York Times, December 27, 1972.
“It will be a picture”: The New Yorker, October 9, 1948.
Los Angeles speech: PP, HST, September 24, 1948, 559.
“We are not quite holding our own”: Tusa, The Berlin Airlift, 235.
“That’s good”: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”
a “Research Division”: George Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.
“He gives every appearance”: Clifford, author’s interview.
the “evil forces”: Time, October 11, 1948.
HST never mentioned Dewey: Clifford, author’s interview.
“If you wanted anything”: The New Yorker, October 16, 1948.
“sort of rube reputation”: Daniels, The Man of Independence, 358.
Description of Dewey campaign: The New Yorker, October 16, 1948.
“Tonight we enter upon a campaign”: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 193.
“We cannot win without”: Quoted in Donovan, 420.
“Smile, governor”: Smith, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times, 26.
“You have to know Mr. Dewey well”: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 32.
“like a man who has been”: The New Yorker, October 16, 1948.
“It is written in the stars”: Smith, 17.
carnal relations: Ibid., 34.
“When you’re leading”: Ibid., 30.
“We always asked them”: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 166.
“How long is Dewey”: Life, October 25, 1948.
“get down in the gutter”: Quoted in Smith, 515.
“Isn’t it harder in politics?”: New Republic, November 1, 1948.
“We resurrected the president’s”: Sullivan, The Bureau, 44.
“The tragic fact is”: Time, October 4, 1948.
“We’ll have no thought police”: Quoted in Smith, 508.
“We hit Salt Lake City”: Quoted in Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 207.
“Then we went into Texas”: PP, HST, September 29, 1948, 629.
“He is good on the back”: Quoted in Hardeman and Bacon, Rayburn: A Biography, 340.
“they’d shoot Truman”: Quoted in Steinberg, 325.
“an eloquence close to”: Daniels, 362.
“Our government is made up”: PP, HST, September 26, 1948, 210.
“I am going over to Bonham”: Ibid., September 27, 1948, 591.
“So in making their speeches”: Ibid., 589.
“Some things are worth fighting for”: Ibid., 593, 595.
“They came in droves”: Truman, Souvenir, 231.
“I know every man, woman, and child”: Hardeman and Bacon, 341.
“Shut the door, Beauford”: Quoted in Truman, Harry S. Truman, 37.
“A great many honors”: Baruch, The Public Years, 399.
“one jump ahead of the sheriff’: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”
“There is nothing like that”: PP, HST, September 30, 1948, 650.
“Now, whatever you do”: Ibid., October 1, 1948, 664.
“The early morning haze”: Quoted in Goulden, The Best Years 1945–1950, 399.
“We made about a hundred and forty”: HST to MJT, October 5, 1948, HSTL.
“classic unities of politics”: Redding, Inside the Democratic Party, 202.
“Another hell of a day”: HST Diary, September 14, 1948, Off the Record, 149.
selections from Dewey speeches: Goulden, 400.
HST campaign movie: Redding, 254.
“He paused dramatically”: Barkley, That Reminds Me, 204.
“If we could only get Stalin”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 215.
“every possible precaution”: Ibid., 216.
“There is much confusion”: Ayers Diary, October 6–7, 1948, HSTL.
“He got up and went out”: Daniels, 29.
“If Harry Truman would just”: Goulden, 414.
Dewey with blind drawn: Smith, 536.
“I grew up on a farm”: PP, HST, October 11, 1948, 737.
If HST called Bess the Boss; Truman, Bess W. Truman, 330.
“If you don’t want to go”: PP, HST, October 11, 1948, 736–37.
Willard, Ohio, stop: Willard Times; Joseph Dush, author’s interview; materials supplied by Harlene Staptf Palkuti.
“I have had the most wonderful”: PP, HST, October 11, 1948, 740.
“I have lived a long time”: Ibid., 743, 747.
“And there it was!”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“So I walked in”: Ibid.
“I was with Truman”: Douglas, In the Fullness of Time, 138.
“I just wonder tonight”: PP, HST, October 12, 1948, 760.
“Now, I call on all liberals”: Ibid., October 13, 1948, 774.
“a lot of surprised pollsters”: Time, October 25, 1948.
“I think he’s doing pretty well”: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 215.
“The only way to handle Truman”: Patterson, Mr. Republican. A Biography of Robert A. Taft, 424–25.
“That’s the first lunatic”: Time, October 25, 1948.
Boston Post editorial: October 27, 1948.
“If you’re winning”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“Strain seemed to make him”: Daniels, 361.
“He was not putting on”: Elsey, author
’s interview, and Oral History, HSTL.
“For years afterward”: Clifford, Oral History, HSTL.
“We’ve got them on the run”: HST to MJT, October 20, 1948, HSTL.
“The airlift will be continued”: Tusa, 245.
“Say you don’t look so good!”: PP, HST, October 23, 1948, 839.
“The newspapers had convinced them”: Douglas, 138.
attack on Dewey: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 235.
“An element of desperation”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“They have scattered reckless abuse”: Smith, 536.
“The confetti, ticker-tape”: The New York Times, October 29, 1948.
“There is one place”: Quoted in Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 237.
“Such a weak and vacillating”: Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone, 153.
“There never has been a campaign”: The New York Times, November 1, 1948.
“I became President”: PP, HST, October 30, 1948, 934.
“pullet poll”: Life, November 15, 1948.
“Were it not for all”: Ayers Diary, November 1, 1948, HSTL.
“We all, of course, stayed awake”: Gerard McAnn, author’s interview.
Maloney and his men: Smith, 40.
“We waited and waited”: Sue Gentry, author’s interview.
“We couldn’t believe it”: Ibid.
“What a night”: Truman, Souvenir, 242.
“And all of a sudden”: Jim Rowley, author’s interview.
“his first case of nerves”: Letter from Jerome K. Walsh to Morris J. Ernst, undated, HSTL.
“He just seemed the same old”: Lyman Field, author’s interview.
“He displayed neither tension”: Letter from Jerome K. Walsh to Morris J. Ernst, undated, HSTL.
“Thank you, thank you”: Time, November 8, 1948.
Bankhead telegram: Goulden, 421.
“I think the mistake was”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“shook the bones”: Baltimore Sun, November 7, 1948.
“The farm vote switched”: Thomas Dewey to Henry Luce, undated, L. C.
“You’ve got to give the little man”: Vandenberg, Private Papers, 460.
Taft comment: Steinberg, 332.
Republican Policy Committee Report: December 17, 1948, HSTL.
“Labor Did It”: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 255.
“The bear got us”: Smith, 543.
“Far from costing Dewey”: Quoted in Phillips, 250–51.
“I couldn’t have been more wrong”: Life, November 15, 1948.
“What’s the matter with that fellow”: The New York Times, November 28, 1948.
“I kept reading”: Goldman, The Crucial Decade, 87.
“But when voting time came”: Ibid.
“the common man’s man”: Life, November 15, 1948.
“It seemed to have been”: Donovan, 438.
“There was personal humiliation”: New Republic, November 15, 1948.
“There has been a danger”: Ayers Diary, November 4, 1948, HSTL.
Luce memo: November 11, 1948, Time-Warner archives.
“His personality was against him”: Henry Luce memorandum, November 5, 1948, Ibid.
“I think the press”: T. S. Matthews memorandum to Henry Luce, November 4, 1948, Ibid.
“Of course, we did not intentionally”: J. J. Thorndike, Jr., memorandum to Henry Luce, November 5, 1948, Ibid.
90 percent of the credit: Hardeman and Bacon, 342.
“You have put over”: George C. Marshall to HST, November 4, 1948, HSTL.
“I think that Harry Truman grew”: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”
“I think Dewey’s whole campaign”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“no desire to crow”: HST to the Washington Post, November 6, 1948, HSTL.
Part Five
15. Iron Man
“Clearly he was conscious”: Washington Evening Star, January 20, 1949.
“his day of days”: Truman, Souvenir, 255.
“It is the President’s desire”: Seale, The President’s House, Vol. II, 1027.
“I have the job”: Washington Post, January 20, 1949; Time, January 31, 1949.
State of the Union message: PP, HST, January 5, 1949, 1.
H. V. Kaltenborn impersonation: Ibid., January 19, 1949, 110.
“I was not in any way elated”: Ibid.
“Wonderful, wonderful”: Washington Post, January 21, 1949.
Battery D reunion: Washington Evening Star, January 20, 1949.
prayer service: Washington Post, January 21, 1949.
inaugural address: PP, HST, January 20, 1949, 112–16.
“How strange”: Washington Evening Star, January 20, 1949.
“The clear sunlight”: The New York Times, January 21, 1949.
“At the reviewing stand”: J. B. West, author’s interview.
“There never was a country”: Payne, Report on America, p. 3.
“The parade was the most fun”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 448.
“the fellow who was having”: Washington Post, January 22, 1949.
“It can almost be stated”: Bohlen, Witness to History, 284.
“fifty percent better”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 527.
“He looks more relaxed”: Ibid., 463–64.
“He was great down in Key West!”: James Rowley, Jr., author’s interview.
“The President is as close to being”: Time, May 16, 1949.
“He won’t take hold”: Lilienthal Journals, Vol. II, 386.
“No commentator”: Time, March 7, 1949.
HST fair with Forrestal: Forrestal Diaries, 551.
“The best boss I have ever known”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 345.
“a man who, while he reflects”: Forrestal Diaries, 529.
“the mess we are in”: Eisenhower Diaries, 152–53.
his “baffled” look: Washington Post, January 21, 1949.
Forrestal was insane: Pearson, Diaries, 1949–1959, 42.
“a very sick man”: Krock, Memoirs, 253–57.
Secret Service Report: March 31, 1949, HSTL.
“out of his mind”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 506.
Bess was “terribly shaken”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 346.
25,000 Pentagon employees: Time, June 6, 1949.
“Unwittingly”: Bradley and Blair, A General’s Life, 503.
“in high good humor”: Time, April 25, 1949.
Cardinal Spellman: Goldman, The Crucial Decade—and After, 130–31.
“Hysteria finally died down”: PP, HST, June 16, 1949, 294.
“The military situation”: Acheson, Present at the Creation, 305.
morning press conference: PP, HST, August 4, 1949, 408.
“The unfortunate but inescapable”: Acheson, 303.
“his general’s stars”: Time, August 22, 1949.
“I do these people a courtesy”: Dunar, The Truman Scandals and the Politics of Morality, 70.
“an expression of friendship”: Time, September 12, 1949.
Was it true, asked McCarthy: Ibid.
“Ross and I”: Ayers Diary, August 12, 1949, HSTL.
“After all I am”: Abel, The Truman Scandals, 42–43.
“I think that Mr. Truman”: Barkley, That Reminds Me, 212.
When Vaughan offered to resign: Dunar, 64.
“a whole box of trouble”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 569.
“as if I frequently found him”: Ibid.
“The President was reading a copy”: Ibid., 570–71.
“I believe the American people”: PP, HST, September 23, 1949, 485.
“We keep saying”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 577.
“this grim thing”: Ibid., 584.
“We can never tell”: HST to EWT, June 29, 1949, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 158.
“Never in my wildest dreams”: HST to EN, September 8, 1949, ibid., 163–64.
rats in the White House: Floyd Borin
g and Rex Scouten, author’s interviews.
“Very discreet”: West, with Kotz, Upstairs at the White House, 111.
“Had dinner by myself”: HST Diary, November 1, 1949, Off the Record, 168–69.
“a fine man”: HST to Jonathan Daniels, February 26, 1950, unsent, ibid., 174.
“It was a great thing”: Dean Acheson, Oral History, HSTL.
Acheson descriptions: Time, February 28, 1949; The New Yorker, November 12 and 19, 1949; The New York Times, October 13, 1971; Clark Clifford and George Elsey, author’s interviews.
“You owe it to Truman”: Isaacson and Thomas, The Wise Men, 547.
“a peculiar organization”: HST to David H. Morgan, January 28, 1952, Off the Record, 235.
“At lunch at the Capitol”: Acheson, 107.
“You know all of us”: HST to EN, September 24, 1950, Off the Record, 194.
“deeply loving and tender nature”: Sevareid, Conversations with Eric Sevareid, 73.
“Well, this is the kind of person”: Ibid.
“It was good of you to see us off”: HST to Dean Acheson, November 28, 1949, HSTL.
“And then he was so fair”: Sevareid, 74.
“He was not afraid of the competition”: Acheson, 732–33.
“not pretending to be better”: McLellan, Dean Acheson, 19.
“Today you hear much talk”: Ibid., 173–74.
“Acheson is a gentleman”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 565.
“I told Kennan”: McLellan, 176.
“How can you persuade”: Isaacson and Thomas, 487.
“The day will come”: Time, January 23, 1950.
“Today, by the grace of God”: PP, HST, January 4, 1950, 3.
“I should like to make it clear”: Acheson, 360.
“I think anyone who has known”: Ibid.
“This newspaper has felt”: New York Herald-Tribune, January 27, 1950.
“wonderful about it”: Acheson, 360.
“I look at that fellow”: Quoted in Goldman, 125.
“blow them off the face of the earth”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 585.
“Like a patient”: Time, January 30, 1950.
an “atmosphere of excitement”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 628–29.
“eloquently and forcefully”: Acheson, 349.
“We must protect the President”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 630.
he felt he must express: Ibid., 632.
“Can the Russians?”: Quoted in Donovan, Tumultuous Years, 156.
“It is part of my responsibility”: PP, HST, January 31, 1950, 138.
“I hope I was wrong”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 633–34.
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