“General annihiliation beckons”: Quoted in Goldman, 137.
“How much are we going”: Weinstein, Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, 507.
“The air was so charged”: Block, The Herblock Book, 144.
205 “known communists”: Reeves, Life and Times of Joe McCarthy, 224, 237.
“When this pompous diplomat”: Bernstein and Matusow, eds., The Truman Administration, 407.
“I will not turn my back”: Washington Post, June 25, 1950.
“keep talking and if one case”: Reeves, 263.
“top Russian espionage agent”: Time, April 3, 1950.
“In an age of atomic energy”: Krock, In the Nation: 1932–1966, 145–46.
“One of the happiest sessions”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 635.
“You see everybody”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 351.
“What has made me so jittery”: Ibid.
“a ballyhoo artist”: Donovan, 166.
plunged to 37 percent: Time, April 24, 1950.
Little White House press conference: PP, HST, March 30, 1950, 232–38.
Federal Bar Association speech: Ibid, April 24, 1950, 269.
“I think our friend”: Quoted in Donovan, 170.
Maragaret Chase Smith: Acheson, 365.
the “lure in power”: HST Diary, April 16, 1950, Off the Record, 177.
“I am not a candidate”: Ibid.
NSC-68: Acheson, 374.
“bludgeon the mass mind”: Ibid.
“with us for a long, long time”: PP, HST, May 9, 1950, 335.
“a grand visit”: HST to Stanley Woodward, June 24, 1950, Off the Record, 184.
“We would not build”: PP, HST, June 24, 1950.
nation’s worst air disaster: The New York Times, June 25, 1950.
“There are lots of places”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 25, 1950.
Dean Acheson call: Memoirs, Vol. II, 332.
“My first reaction”: Ibid.
“It would appear”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 334.
“Dad took it”: Truman, Souvenir, 275.
departure so swift: Memoirs, Vol. II, 332.
Bess looking as she had the night FDR died: The New York Times, June 26, 1950.
“By God, I am going to”: Quoted in Donovan, 197.
“I remembered how”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 332–33
Rusk had seen no likelihood of war: Rusk, As I Saw It, 161.
Blair House meeting: Memoirs, Vol. II, 333.
dinner meeting: Smith, “Why We Went to War in Korea,” Saturday Evening Post, November 11, 1950.
a “darkening report”: Acheson, 406.
“a dagger pointed at the heart”: Rusk, 162.
“We must draw the line”: Bradley and Blair, 534–35.
“Underlying these discussions”: Ibid., 535.
“He pulled all the conferees together”: The New York Times, June 28, 1950.
“I thought we were still holding”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 335.
“the complete, almost unspoken”: Ibid., 334.
“so as not to give him too much”: Bradley and Blair, 536.
“It was our idea”: Donovan, 199.
“as Hermann Goering”: Jenkins, Truman, 164.
“Our estimate is that a complete collapse”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 337.
adding “not yet”: Department of State Memorandum for the Secretary, June 30, 1950, HSTL.
“We had no war plan”: Bradley and Blair, 539.
“Everything I have done”: Phillips, The Truman Presidency, 289.
“Too little, too late”: Washington Post, June 27, 1950.
“The attack upon Korea”: PP, HST, June 27, 1950, 492.
“Although the President”: Alsop, “Why Has Washington Gone Crazy?”, Saturday Evening Post, July 29, 1950.
“These are days”: Washington Post, June 28, 1950.
“We’ll have a dozen Koreas”: Eisenhower Diaries, 175.
“You may be a whiskey guzzling poker playing”: Harry Abel to HST, June 27, 1950, HSTL.
“I have lived and worked”: Time, July 10, 1950.
“We are not at war”: PP, HST, June 29, 1950, 504.
“The only assurance for holding”: MacArthur, Reminiscences, 334.
“Must be careful not to cause”: HST Diary, June 30, 1950, Off the Record, 185.
“Now, your job as President”: Sevareid, 74.
“Memo to Dean Acheson”: Acheson, 415.
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“There was nothing passive”: Elsey, “Memoir: Some White House Recollections, 1942–1953,” Diplomatic History, Summer 1988.
“This is the Greece”: Quoted in Phillips, The Truman Presidency, 297.
“walk with the weary man’s”: Time, July 10, 1950.
Bradley meeting with HST: Time, August 21, 1950.
“The size of the attack”: PP, HST, July 19, 1950, 538.
as if a few troops of Boy Scouts: Ridgway, The Korean War, 17.
“Guys, sweat soaked”: Knox, The Korean War, Pusan to Chosin, 71.
“What a place to die”: New York Herald-Tribune, July 6, 1950.
Acheson, however, disagreed: Acheson, Present at the Creation, 414.
“Later when Robert Taft”: Heller, The Truman White House, 13.
HST said he would “back out”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 340.
her father’s anguish: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 357.
telegrams and letters to White House: White House Correspondence File, HSTL.
“The influence of Louis Johnson”: Joseph Alsop, author’s interview.
July 14 meeting: Acheson, 421.
July 19 message to Congress: PP, HST, July 19, 1950, 527–37.
press conference: Ibid., July 27, 1950, 560–64.
“He would have saved himself”: Bradley and Blair, A General’s Life, 542.
“an inordinate egotistical desire”: HST Diary, September 14, 1950, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 192.
a “pathological condition”: Bradley and Blair, 542.
HST confiding Harriman’s story: Ayers Diary, July 3, 1950, HSTL.
“A most interesting morning”: HST Diary, September 14, 1950, Off the Record, 192.
“Mr. Prima Donna”: HST Diary, June 17, 1945, ibid., 47.
“little regard or respect”: Ayers Diary, July 1, 1950, HSTL.
Dulles advised HST: Ibid.
HST’s little regard for generals: HST memorandum, April 24, 1954, Off the Record, 303.
“likes horses with blinders on”: Miller, Plain Speaking, 220.
“fluid but improving”: Ayers Diary, August 12, 1950, HSTL.
HST’s uppermost concern: Memoirs, Vol. II, 351.
“catch him alone”: Quoted in Heller, 14.
MacArthur assured HST: Memoirs, Vol. II, 351.
“with all his dramatic eloquence”: Bradley and Blair, 546.
the riskiest military proposal: Ibid., 544.
“I made it clear to the President”: Quoted in Heller, 14.
“as fast as you can”: Bradley and Blair, 546.
“This means not the usual”: Osborne, Life and Time, August 21, 1950.
“the wildest kind”: Bradley and Blair, 556.
“the gravest misgivings”: Ibid., 547.
“Nothing could be more fallacious”: Manchester, American Caesar, 568.
“his lips white”: Bradley and Blair, 551.
rank insubordination: Ibid.
“the height of arrogance”: Ibid.
HST rejects idea of relieving MacArthur: Memoirs, Vol. II, 355–56.
HST asks Johnson to have MacArthur’s statement withdrawn: Bradley and Blair, 551.
“The JCS inclined toward postponing”: Ibid., 547.
“a failure could be a national”: Ibid., 545.
“It was a daring strategic conception”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 358.
“Hell and high water”: HST to EWT, September 7, 1950, Off the Record, 189.
“I’ll do it”: Ibid.
“Can
you think of anyone?”: Ibid.
Johnson told he must quit: HST Diary, September 14, 1950, ibid., 193.
a “military miracle”: Ridgway, 44.
“I salute you all”: Quoted in Phillips, 313.
“Troops could not be expected”: Acheson, 445.
to “feel unhampered”: Ridgway, 45.
“an almost superstitious awe”: Ibid., 61.
warnings a bluff: Spanier, The Truman-MacArthur Controversy and the Korean War, 87.
“and I did not feel”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 368.
“the perfect answer”: Wiltz, “Truman and MacArthur: The Wake Island Meeting,” Military Affairs, December 1978.
“good election year stuff”: Donovan, Tumultuous Years,284.
“While General MacArthur”: Acheson, 456.
“I’ve a whale of a job”: HST to Nellie Noland, October 13, 1950, Off the Record, 196.
“Two men can sometimes learn”: Time, October 23, 1950.
“I don’t care what they say”: Ibid.
MacArthur had arrived the night before: Ibid.
Harriman exchange with MacArthur: Bradley and Blair, 573.
“grave responsibility”: Ibid.
MacArthur greeting: New York Herald-Tribune, October 15, 1950.
“I have been worried”: Quoted in Donovan, 285.
MacArthur assured him victory was won: Memoirs, Vol. II, 365.
“seemed genuinely pleased”: Ibid.
“I had been warned”: MacArthur, Reminiscences, 361.
Vernice Anderson incident: Jessup, “Research Note/The Record of Wake Island—A Correction,” The Journal of American History, March 1981.
when MacArthur received transcript: Bradley and Blair, 575.
“He was the most persuasive fellow”: Quoted in Manchester, 592.
“the formal resistance”: Substance of Statements Made at Wake Island Conference on October 15, 1950, compiled by General Omar Bradley, declassified, 1, HSTL.
By January: Ibid.
Dean Rusk concerned: Rusk, As I Saw It, 169.
“Hell no!”: Ibid.
“They are the happiest”: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950. Vol. VII: Korea, 953
the French couldn’t “clean it up”: Substance of Statements Made at Wake Island Conference, 17.
MacArthur declined lunch: Ibid.
“Whether intended or not”: Bradley and Blair, 576.
“The communiqué should be submitted”: Substance of Statements Made at Wake Island Conference, 23.
MacArthur asked the President: MacArthur, Reminiscences, 362.
“Eisenhower doesn’t know the first thing”: Ibid., 363.
“the very complete unanimity of view”: PP, HST, October 15, 1950, 672.
“his vision, his judgment”: Donovan, 288.
a “glorious new page”: PP, HST, October 17, 1950, 674.
“On this one”: Rusk, 169.
“Come up to Pyongyang”: Newsweek, October 23, 1950.
“Goodbye, sir”: Time, October 23, 1950.
“I like them more”: Truman, Letters from Father, 97.
“He would treat us”: Rex Scouten, author’s interview.
Floyd Boring’s wife: Floyd Boring, author’s interview.
“The house was so quiet”: West, with Kotz, Upstairs at the White House, 116.
“I’d come out more or less”: Boring, author’s interview.
mistaken for divinity students: Life: November 13, 1950.
assassination attempt: Boring, author’s interview; Scouten, author’s interview; Life, November 13, 1950; The New York Times, November 2, 1950; Time, November 12, 1950; Whistle Stop, Fall 1979.
“Why, of course”: Time, November 12, 1950.
“It is important”: PP, HST, November 1, 1950, 693.
“But Truman was…just a symbol”: Kansas City Times, September 11, 1979.
“A President has to expect”: The New York Times, November 2, 1950.
HST insisted he was in no danger: PP, HST, November 2, 1950, 696.
so “unnecessary”: HST to Dean Acheson, November 2, 1950, HSTL.
“[Leaving the airport)”: HST Diary, November 5, 1950, Off the Record, 198.
“really a prisoner now”: HST to EN, November 17, 1950, ibid.
“The Korean death trap”: Donovan, 295.
“All the piety”: Ibid., 297.
Bess had seldom seen HST so downhearted: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 363–64.
“Some Republicans interpret”: PP, HST, November 16, 1950, 714.
“Then there were those”: Ridgway, 61.
“If this operation is successful”: Manchester, 606.
“a terrible message”: Ibid., 608.
“We’ve got a terrific”: Hersey, Aspects of the Presidency, 27.
“The Chinese have come in”: Ibid.
“alone and inescapably”: Ibid., 28.
seven thousand letters: Heller, 47.
“We can blame the liars”: Ibid., 30.
“His mouth drew tight”: Ibid., 28.
“We have got to meet this thing”: Ibid., 30;
“We face an entirely new war”: Quoted in Acheson, 469.
November 28, 1950, meeting: Ibid., 469, 471.
“There was no doubt”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 378.
“We can’t defeat the Chinese”: Acheson, 471.
the “imperative step”: Ibid.
“The threat of a larger war”: Bradley and Blair, 599.
“hordes of Chinese Reds”: Washington Star, November 28, 1950.
“A lot of hard work”: Memoirs Vol. II, 388.
“Remember, photographers are”: Truman, Letters from Father, 99.
“He ‘used’ the press”: Phillips, The New York Times, December 31, 1972.
“a fat no good can of lard”: HST to MJT, July 25, 1947, Off the Record, 115.
“the Sop Sisters”: HST to EWT, June 11, 1950, Ibid., 179 and 41, note.
“The prostitutes of the mind”: Poen, Strictly Personal and Confidential, 24.
“You might tell the gentleman”: HST to Joseph J. McGee, November 22, 1950, Off the Record, 199.
November 30, 1950, press conference: PP, HST, 724–728.
“No, it doesn’t mean”: Ibid., 727.
the “wildest days” ever: Ayers Diary, November 30, 1950, HSTL.
“the use of any weapon”: PP, HST, November 30, 1950, 727.
HST ill-advised: Bradley and Blair, 604.
in a crucial few days: Acheson, 466.
“I have the unhappy conviction”: Ibid.
“well remember”: Ridgway, 61.
“someone expressed what everyone”: Acheson, 475.
“You can relieve any commander”: Ridgway, 62.
Rusk proposes relieving MacArthur: Acheson, 476.
“I should have relieved”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 384.
“We must get him out”: HST Diary, December 2, 1950, Off the Record, 202.
“It looks very bad”: Ibid.
“Mr. President, the Chinese”: Rusk, 170.
“I’ve had conference after conference”: HST Diary, December 9, 1950, Off the Record, 204.
“[The President] thought that if”: Quoted in Donovan, 317.
He would not use the bomb: Ibid., 318.
“Charlie seemed in good form”: Ayers Diary, December 5, 1950, HSTL.
Death of Charlie Ross: Washington Post, December 6, 1950.
“The friend of my youth”: PP, HST, December 5, 1950, 737.
“Ah, hell”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 545–46.
previous Ross heart attacks: Washington Post, December 6, 1950.
HST keeps Ross death from Margaret: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 546.
“Afterward, Dad was effusive”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 366.
“really pretty bad that night”: John Hersey, author’s interview.
Hume review: Washington Post, December 6, 1950.
“That’s exactly what I want”: Traubel, St. Louis Woman, 211.
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“Charlie Ross would never have”: Elsey, author’s interview.
“Mr. Hume: I’ve just read”: HST to Paul Hume, December 7, 1950.
“In the first place”: Time, December 18, 1950.
To Margaret he said: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 547.
“When he would write”: Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.
“a propaganda machine”: Time, September 18, 1950.
“I can only say”: Time, December 18, 1950.
letters and telegrams to White House: General Correspondence File, HSTL.
letter from the Bannings: HSTL.
“The Eighth Army is yours”: Ridgway, 83.
“never uttered wiser words”: Acheson, 512.
“brilliant, driving”: Bradley and Blair, 608.
“The troops are tired”: Ibid., 619.
“Under the extraordinary”: Quoted in Donovan, 346.
to recognize the “state of war”: Manchester, The Glory and the Dream, 550.
atomic bombs: Schaller, Douglas MacArthur, 225.
“go down that trail”: Rusk, 170.
“infinite patience”: Acheson, 515.
“steps which might in themselves”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 438, 436.
“We were at our lowest”: Bradley and Blair, 620.
“Eighth Army in good shape”: Ibid., 623.
“rolling forward”: Ridgway, The Korean War, 106.
to look “beyond MacArthur”: Bradley and Blair, 623.
Ridgway thought HST a great and courageous man: Ridgway, author’s interview.
“mainly a prima donna”: Bradley and Blair, 623.
“While General MacArthur was fighting”: Acheson, 517.
“the really terrifying strength”: Ridgway, 111.
“tired and depressed: Goulden, Korea, 453.
“just ordered a resumption”: Ridgway, 109.
“not only his nerves”: MacArthur, Reminiscences, 393.
“snapped his brilliant”: Bradley and Blair, 626.
“The enemy, therefore”: MacArthur, 388.
his “pronunciamento”: Acheson, The Korean War, 101.
“unforgiveable and irretrievable act”: Bradley and Blair, 627.
“Whom the gods would destroy”: Acheson, Korean War, 100.
“I couldn’t send a message”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 559.
“This was a most extraordinary”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 441–42.
“disbelief with controlled fury”: Acheson, Korean War, 102.
“Gallup Poll: The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 1935–1971, 970.
“If you are going to get on”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 443–45.
“What are we in Korea for”: Martin, My First Fifty Years in Politics, 203.
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