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  “Mr. President, this man is not”: Roger Tubby Diary, April 5, 1951.

  “I did not know”: Bradley and Blair, 629.

  “The situation could be resolved”: Acheson, Korean War, 104.

  “If you relieve MacArthur”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 447.

  “I don’t express any opinion”: HST Diary, April 5, 1951, Off the Record, 211.

  “at the apex of a situation”: MacArthur, 394.

  “The wind died down”: Martin, 207.

  because they knew the kind of abuse: Bradley and Blair, 633.

  MacArthur firing would provoke: Ibid.

  “There was no question”: Phillips, 346–47.

  He told Bradley to prepare: Memoirs, Vol. II, 448.

  Speculation about MacArthur: Washington Post, April 10, 1951.

  “So you won’t have to read about it”: Tubby Diary, April 12, 1951.

  a supposed “major resignation”: Bradley and Blair, 636.

  “There was a degree of panic”: Elsey, author’s interview.

  “He’s not going to be allowed”: Phillips, 343.

  “Discussed the situation”: HST Diary, April, 9, 1951, Off the Record, 211.

  “Well, the little man”: Rusk, 172.

  would have retired “without difficulty”: Schaller, 239.

  HST’s “mental instability”: Donovan, 360; Goulden, 495.

  “Our only choice”: Washington Post, April 12, 1951.

  Tom Connally reminded: Ibid.

  Chicago Tribune editorial: April 12, 1951.

  “This is the biggest windfall”: Washington Post, April 18 1951.

  “In the days ahead”: Letter from W. O. Douglas to HST, April 11, 1951, HSTL.

  “It makes not the slightest”: The President vs. the General,” Sermon by Dr. Duncan E. Littlefield, April 15, 1951, Fountain Street Baptist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan, HSTL.

  “The most obvious fact”: New York Herald-Tribune, April 13, 1951.

  “bourbon and Benedictine”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 14, 1951.

  Gallup Poll: Goldman, The Crucial Decade, 203.

  HST booed at Griffith Stadium: Washington Post, April 21, 1951.

  April 11, 1951, broadcast: PP, HST, April 11, 1951, 223–27.

  “The only politics I have”: Time, April 30, 1951.

  “I was sorry to have to reach”: HST to Eisenhower, April 13, 1951, HSTL.

  mock “Schedule for Welcoming…”: HSTL.

  “I address you”: New York Herald-Tribune, April 20, 1951.

  “When I joined the Army”: MacArthur, 405.

  “The hopes and dreams”: Quoted in Manchester, 661.

  “We heard God speak”: Ibid.

  “I honestly felt that if the speech”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 563.

  “a bunch of damn bullshit”: Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 337.

  “After I looked at that wreckage”: Time, May 14, 1951.

  “a very distressing necessity”: Ibid.

  “Having made this courageous decision”: Bradley and Blair, 637.

  “Courage didn’t have anything”: Quoted in Phillips, 350.

  “Truman’s conflict with MacArthur”: Rusk, 172.

  MacArthur to Samuel Eliot Morison: Morison, The Oxford History of the American People, 1072.

  May 18 dinner: PP, HST, May 18, 1951, 292–93.

  Tullahoma, Tennessee, speech: Ibid., June 25, 1951, 357–63.

  17. Final Days

  “I have tried to give it”: PP, HST, January 15, 1953, 1202.

  “I walk two miles”: HST Diary, January 3, 1952, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 226.

  “Mr. President, this is my first”: PP, HST, July 12, 1951, 387.

  HST served bowl of milk toast: Tubby Diary, May 21, 1951.

  “You constantly tell me to relax”: Ibid., April 13, 1952.

  a framed verse: Hersey, Aspects of the Presidency, 108.

  it was all worth the effort: Tubby Diary, October 15, 1951.

  “I know what a soldier goes through”: PP, HST, January 15, 1953, 1200.

  Sergeant John Rice: The New York Times, August 29, 1951.

  “mysterious, powerful” conspiracy: Reeves, The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy, 372.

  a “pithy and bitter” summary: Hersey, 137–38.

  “Three pungent comments”: Ibid.

  HST announces Marshall stepping down: PP, HST, September 12, 1951, 516.

  Hassett would bring him funny items: Tubby Diary, June 24, 1951.

  Hassett an alcoholic: Ibid., September 18, 1951.

  the “chiselers” within: Ibid., early June, 1951.

  “He tended to live”: George Elsey, author’s interview.

  “an overeducated S.O.B.”: Douglas, In the Fullness of Time, 222.

  he had “gone too far”: Ibid., 223.

  “real crooks and influence peddlers”: Ibid.

  “You have been loyal to friends”: Ibid., 224.

  “You bastards”: Quoted in Goldman, The Crucial Decade—and After, 196.

  “With staggering impact”: Ibid., 198–99.

  HST and Army football scandal: Tubby Diary, August 3 and 8, 1951.

  “I did nothing improper”: Douglas, 224.

  He liked people: Tubby Diary, August 3, 1951.

  “He was dressed in flashy”: Ibid., September 13, 1951.

  “Ah, me. I wonder”: Ibid., early June, 1951,

  like Warren G. Harding: Ibid., September 13, 1951.

  “Poker, poker”: Ibid., April 2, 1951.

  “Truman has to take strong action”: Ibid., early June, 1951.

  “He does not like to dwell”: Ibid., October 15, 1951.

  Boyle background: Kansas City Star, August 31, 1951.

  “I like people who can”: HST to MT, December 3, 1944, Truman, Letters from Father, 60.

  Charles Binnagio: The New York Times, April 7, 1950; Life, April 17, 1950.

  “So Boyle is not only stupid”: Tubby Diary, early June, 1951.

  “It’s all right”: Ibid.

  “I have the utmost confidence”: PP, HST, August 9, 1951, 454.

  Murphy memorandum: Charles S. Murphy to HST, August 9, 1951, HSTL.

  Gabrielson revelations: Time, October 15, 1951.

  Elsey report: Dunar, The Truman Scandals, 128.

  “Let’s say continue”: PP, HST, December 13, 1951, 641.

  “Boss, you’re going to have to run”: Tubby Diary, October 15, 1951.

  “Once I’m outa the White House”: Ibid.

  Gallup Poll: The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 1935–71, 1032.

  “From that day forward”: Tubby Diary, January 16, 1952.

  “Dealing with Communist Governments”: HST, private longhand note, January 27, 1952, HSTL.

  Churchill trip to Washington: Gilbert, Winston Churchill, Never Despair, 675.

  “What Churchill did was great”: Acheson, Present at the Creation, 595.

  Churchill acknowledged American nuclear power: Tubby Diary, January 16, 1952.

  HST’s “great decision”: Gilbert, 676.

  “The last time you and I sat”: This often repeated tribute appears to have been recorded by Joe Short, who was on board the Williamsburg. It is paraphrased in Roger Tubby’s diary and would later appear in Margaret Truman Daniel’s book about her father and in several obituaries at the time of Truman’s death.

  “the great white jail”: HST to EWT, September 13, 1946, Dear Bess, 536.

  Hersey tour of White House: Hersey, 88.

  “It is the President’s desire”: Winslow Diary, January 14 1949, OCWH (Office of the Curator, White House).

  Congressional Commission established: Scale, The President’s House, Vol. II, 1029.

  “The character and extent”: The White House Report of the Commission of Public Buildings, 91.

  “The decision between these plans”: Ibid., 48.

  Rabaut argued for dismantling: Renovation Commission Hearing Minutes, July 19, 1949, HSTL.

  “They took
the insides all out”: HST Diary, March 2, 1952, Off the Record, 243.

  for proper underpinning: Seale, Vol. II, 1034.

  “faithful reproductions”: The White House Report of the Commission of Public Buildings, 93.

  “The President has authorized”: Seale, Vol. II, 1039.

  description of bomb shelter: Tubby Diary, July 26, 1951.

  for “morale reasons”: Ibid.

  False radar report: Ibid.

  “He considered it his project”: Rex Scouten, author’s interview.

  “It is absolutely essential”: HST to Les Larson, June 12, 1951, HSTL.

  HST forced into politics: Hersey, 88.

  communing with White House spirits: Seale, Vol. II, 1047.

  Winslow memo to HST: H. G. Grim to Lorenze S. Winslow, September 13, 1951, HSTL.

  “I want it distinctly”: HST to William Adams Delano, August 25, 1950, HSTL.

  “moving at the double quick”: The New York Times, March 15, 1952.

  “Bess and I looked over”: HST Diary, March 27, 1952, Off the Record, 246.

  “The President was an inexhaustible”: The New York Times, May 4, 1952.

  “the most logical and qualified”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 489.

  Eisenhower lunch with HST: Krock, Memoirs, 267-68.

  “You can’t join a party”: Ambrose, Eisenhower, Soldier and President, 259-60.

  “He told me Arthur Krock’s story”: Sulzberger, A Long Row of Candles, 693.

  “Dear Ike: The Columnists”: HST to Dwight D. Eisenhower, December 18, 1951, Off the Record, 220.

  “a grand man”: PP, HST, January 10, 1952, 21, 22.

  “I’m sorry to see these fellows”: Tubby Diary, April 13, 1952.

  “Can we elect?”: HST Diary, July 6, 1952, Off the Record, 261.

  “He proved in that contest”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 491.

  “He comes of a political family”: Ibid.

  Stevenson talked his way past the guards: Martin, Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, 523.

  “I told him I would not run”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 491.

  “He was overcome”: HST Diary, March 4, 1952, Off the Record, 245.

  “He apparently was flabbergasted”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 492.

  “full of admiration”: Quoted in Martin, 523.

  “Stevenson was impressed”: Ibid., 524.

  “Adlai, if a knucklehead like me”: McKeever, Adlai Stevenson, His Life and Legacy, 179.

  “If Eisenhower were the Republican”: Ibid., 178.

  “[He] came to tell me”: HST Diary, March 4, 1952, Off the Record, 245.

  Clifford advice to HST: Clifford, with Holbrooke, Counsel to the President, 283.

  “Anybody who works closely”: Quoted in Martin, 544-45.

  “Not at all”: Acheson, 632.

  “I shall not be a candidate”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 492.

  “I found myself shouting”: Quoted in Martin, 547.

  “When you made your announcement”: Tubby Diary, April 3, 1952.

  Did he plan to run: PP, HST, April 3, 1952, 233-34.

  “I was stunned by”: Quoted in Martin, 553.

  HST response to Stevenson: Ibid.

  his amazing stamina: Tubby Diary, April 13, 1952.

  “inability to get on top”: Dunar, 119.

  with this farcical denouement: Phillips, The Truman Presidency, 413.

  “I want you to know”: Dunar, 119.

  “when I’m not so shaky”: Tubby Diary, April 13, 1952.

  “McGrath, Korean truce talks”: Ibid.

  HST appointment schedule: HSTL.

  “These are not normal times”: PP, HST, April 8, 1952, 246.

  “The President has the power”: Tubby Diary, April 6, 1952.

  “Secretary of Defense Lovett”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 469.

  “The attitude of the companies”: Ibid., 468.

  “The plain fact of the matter”: PP, HST, April 8, 1952, 249.

  HST looked so exhausted: Tubby Diary, April 13, 1952.

  “very desirable”: PP, HST, April 9, 1952, 251.

  one of the most high-handed acts: Washington Post, April 10, 1952.

  “Nothing in the Constitution”: Ibid.

  “Under similar circumstances”: PP, HST, April 17, 1952, 273.

  “I believe that the contemplated strike”: Time, May 12, 1952.

  “read it, read it”: Tubby Diary, May 3, 1952.

  “[I] had never seen him”: Ibid.

  an “outstanding” lawyer: Memoirs, Vol. II, 475.

  “We cannot with faithfulness”: Donovan, “Truman Seizes Steel,” Constitution, Fall 1990.

  “Today a kindly President”: Ibid.

  “damn fool from Texas”: Miller, Plain Speaking, 242.

  “a bit testy”: Donovan, “Truman Seizes Steel.”

  “No enemy nation could”: Newsweek, August 4, 1952.

  “The Court and Congress got us”: Tubby Diary, May 30–June 1, 1952.

  “If the doctor had come in”: Ibid, July 21, 1952.

  “It’s a lockout”: Ibid.

  “This should lead to”: PP, HST, July 24, 1952, 501.

  any red-blooded Democrat: Time, July 7, 1952.

  “You never know what’s in you”: Tubby Diary, July 2, 1952.

  “We followed you before”: Time, July 21, 1952.

  “If Harry Truman turns out”: Ibid., July 7, 1952.

  “I have been trying”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 496.

  “I am going to take my coat off: Ibid., 497.

  “The people are wise”: Time, August 4, 1952.

  “Sacrifice, patience”: Quoted in McKeever, 201.

  “Stevenson made his decision”: Time, August 4, 1952.

  “Dear Governor: Last night”: HST to Adlai Stevenson, July 26, 1952, Off the Recora 263.

  “He was affronted by”: Quoted in McKeever, 198.

  “I have come to the conclusion”: HST to Adlai Stevenson, early August 1951, Off the Record, 266.

  “Can Stevenson really clean up”: Martin, 644.

  “rather ridiculous”: HST to Adlai Stevenson late August 1952, unsent, Off the Record, 268.

  “Oh, Stevenson will get”: Tubby Diary, August 21, 1952.

  “His eloquence was real”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 497.

  HST would do everything possible: Tubby Diary, August 13, 1952.

  “There’s a man of granite”: Ibid.

  “When you vote the Democratic ticket”: PP, HST, September 29, 1952, 621.

  “What I’ve always had in mind”: HST to Dwight Eisenhower, August 16, 1952, Off the Record, 263-64.

  “a modern Cromwell”: Tubby Diary, September 17, 1952.

  “This will help us”: Ibid., September 22, 1952.

  “I nearly choked to hear him”: Ibid., September 14, 1952.

  “I feel as if I killed them”: Ibid., September 22, 1952.

  “red-hot anger”: Reeves, 439.

  “Do I need to tell you”: Ibid., 440.

  “very sad and pathetic”: PP, HST, October 4, 1952, 711.

  “lay off Ike for a while”: Tubby Diary, early October, 1952.

  “The general whose words”: PP, HST, October 7, 1952, 738.

  “betrayed his principles”: Ibid., October 10, 1952, 784.

  “Why, General Marshall was responsible”: Quoted in Miller, 370.

  “Just how low”: Quoted in Donovan, 401.

  “Ike was well informed”: Bradley and Blair, A General’s Life, 650.

  no one could have beaten Eisenhower: HST memorandum, December 22, 1952, Off the Record, 282.

  “if you still desire”: Donovan, 402.

  “I sincerely wish”: HST Diary, November 15, 1952, Off the Record, 273.

  “an orderly transfer”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 505.

  he wished someone had done: Tubby Diary, November 24, 1952.

  “not very graciously”: HST Diary, November 20, 1952, Off the Record, 274.

  “He’ll sit right here”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 603.

  “
The White House is quiet”: HST Diary, November 24, 1952, Off the Record, 275.

  “Since last September Mother Wallace”: Ibid.

  “She was a grand lady”: HST Diary, December 6, 1952, ibid., 279.

  32 percent: Gallup, 1102.

  43 percent: Ibid.

  “I wonder how far Moses”: HST Memorandum, 1954(?), Off the Record, 310.

  “It bears down on a country boy”: HST to EN, January 2, 1952, Off the Record, 287.

  felt “repudiated”: Tubby Diary, February 1, 1953.

  reminiscences with staff: Ibid, February 2, 1953.

  916Look magazine article: Commager, “A Few Kind Words for Harry Truman,” Look, August 1951.

  “Flying back over the flatlands”: Tubby Diary, February 3, 1953.

  “Certainly no man”: PP, HST, January 16, 1953, 1203.

  “In personality, conversation”: Brown, Through These Men, 41.

  farewell address: PP, HST, January 15, 1953, 1197-1202.

  “in the manner of his going”: New York Herald-Tribune, January 19, 1953.

  Inauguration day: HST Diary, January 20, 1953, Off the Record, 287.

  “I was glad I wasn’t”: West, with Kotz, Upstairs at the White House, 126.

  “I ride with Ike”: HST Diary, January 20, 1953, Off the Record, 257.

  “the very many courtesies”: Ambrose, 296.

  “It was a shocking moment”: Eric Sevareid, author’s interview.

  “The street in front of Dean’s house”: HST Diary, January 20, 1953, Off the Record, 288.

  “an absolutely wonderful affair”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 610.

  “There’s the best friend”: Washington Post, January 21, 1953.

  “I’m just Mr. Truman”: The New York Times, January 21, 1953.

  “Crowd at Harper’s Ferry”: HST Diary, January 20, 1953, Off the Record, 288.

  Part Six

  18. Citizen Truman

  “Been going over”: HST to Dean Acheson, April 18, 1953, HSTL.

  “Who knows”: HST to EW, May 23, 1911, Dear Bess, 36.

  “I tried never to forget”: Miller, Plain Speaking, 10.

  “Rumors have it”: Independence Examiner, January 22, 1953.

  Burrus had picked out house: Rufus Burrus, author’s interview.

  exploit or “commercialize”: Associated Press, January 23, 1953.

  a Miami real estate developer: Samuel Q. Goldman to HST, October 7, 1952, HSTL.

  Toyota offer: HST to Paul Butler, March 3, 1959, HSTL.

  “I still don’t feel”: Quoted in Ferrell, Harry S. Truman and the Modern American Presidency, 153.

  “where everybody seemed”: HST to Dean Acheson, February 7, 1953, HSTL.