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  “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.