“take the grips up”: Ray Scherer, author’s interview.
HST set off for Grandview: Tubby Diary, February 5, 1953; Independence Examiner, January 23, 1953.
That was good land: George Elsey, Oral History, HSTL; author’s interview.
“A cold wind whipping”: Tubby Diary, February 5, 1953.
“More than any other single”: Harry S. Truman, Mr. Citizen, 25.
“He was utterly lost”: Osborne, “Happy Days for Harry,” Life, July 7, 1958.
“Diamond Head”: HST Diary, April 1953, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 290.
“This morning at 7 A.M.”: HST Diary, May 20, 1953, Ibid., 292.
“A shovel (automatic)”: Ibid.
“a real tryout”: Truman, 64.
“Everything went well”: HST to Vic H. Housholder, November 29, 1953, Off the Record, 298.
“I admitted the charge”: Ibid.
“There goes our incognito”: Truman, 65.
“You’re a sight for sore eyes”: The New York Times, June 22, 1953.
“like a dream”: Truman, 67.
“If you’d go again”: The New York Times, June 29, 1953.
“He was very nice”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 6, 1953.
“The book is doing fine”: HST to Acheson, November 5, 1953, HSTL.
Paul Douglas observation: Quoted in Manchester, The Glory and the Dream, 663.
“As for the United States”: July 27, 1953.
“The war is over”: Manchester, 663.
“Of course I’m happy”: HST to Bela Kornitzer, August 7, 1953, HSTL.
“I’m not a writer!”: Francis Heller, author’s interview.
Hillman and Noyes: Miller, 20.
Promising to “protect” HST: Heller, author’s interview.
recording machine: Heller, “The Writing of the Truman Memoirs,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Winter 1983.
Royce highly disorganized: Heller, author’s interview.
HST annoyed: Heller, “The Writing of the Truman Memoirs.”
“lively” and “honest”: Elston, The World of Time Inc., 299.
“The cream of the White House”: Williams, “I Was Truman’s Ghost,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Spring 1982.
“His approval or criticism”: Ibid.
HST begins his day: Erskine, “Truman in Retirement,” Collier’s, February 4, 1955.
“She had golden curls”: Memoirs, Vol. 1, 116.
“I always try to be”: HST Diary, July 8, 1953, Off the Record, 293.
“After I’d passed”: Ibid.
“When we moved”: Memoirs, Vol. 1, 115.
“In the fall of 1892”: Ibid., 116.
How could father be called failure: Steinberg, The Man from Missouri, 15.
“I have been working on”: HST to Acheson, January 28, 1954, HSTL.
“Our tribal instinct”: HST to Acheson, St. Patrick’s Day, 1954, HSTL.
“I used to say”: Osborne, “Happy Days for Harry.”
auction at the Armory: Independence Examiner, November 19, 1954.
“I’m worried about our world”: HST to Acheson, May 28, 1954, HSTL.
Truman stricken at Call Me Madam: Kansas City Star, June 19, 1954.
gall bladder operation: The New York Times, June 21, 1954.
“a hell of a time”: HST to Acheson, October 14, 1954, HSTL.
“When the papers tell us”: Acheson to HST, June 21, 1954, HSTL.
“When you get acquainted”: Ibid.
“It is touching”: Acheson to EWT, June 30, 1954, HSTL.
“going great guns”: HST to Acheson, January 11, 1955, HSTL.
“The material is more interesting”: Acheson to HST, June 21, 1955, HSTL.
“Page 114, line 3”: Ibid.
“She was his true”: Ken McCormick, author’s interview.
“We’d left home”: HST Diary, June 24, 1955, Off the Record, 317.
“I never really appreciated”: Elston, 299.
“I expect to use, probably”: HST to Samuel S. Vaughan, October 22, 1955, HSTL.
“when we see him”: Samuel S. Vaughan, author’s interview.
“I had no idea”: Ibid.
“There, that one’s all slicked up”: Paul Horgan, author’s interview.
“I will autograph”: HST to Ken McCormick, July 1, 1955, Off the Record, 319.
only as “my history”: Heller, author’s interview.
“Altogether, it well”: The New York Times Book Review, November 6, 1955.
called Margaret “skinny”: HST to Acheson, January 11, 1955, HSTL.
“When I hear”: HST to Acheson, January 25, 1955, HSTL.
“Margie has put one over”: HST to Acheson, March 26, 1956, HSTL.
“He strikes me as a very nice”: HST to Acheson, March 26, 1956, HSTL.
“Consolation is just what”: Acheson to HST, March 27, 1956, HSTL.
“rain, rain, rain”: HST Diary, June 21 (?), 1956, Off the Record, 336.
“I was so afraid”: HST to Acheson, July 20, 1956, HSTL.
welcome in Rome: Time, May 28, 1956.
Henry Luce tour: The New York Times, May 20, 1956.
Paul Schultheiss: Independence Examiner, May 19, 1956.
“He is considered the greatest”: HST Diary, May 27–29, 1956, Off the Record, 329.
“[Harry] Truman and his wife lunched”: Berenson, Sunset and Twilight, 436.
“I found that it was somewhat”: HST Diary, June 4, 1956, Off the Record, 332.
“squeezed” from the people: HST Diary, June 1956, ibid., 333.
“We crossed the Channel”: HST Diary, June 21 (?), 1956, ibid., 336.
“Never, never in my life”: Kansas City Times, June 20, 1956.
“Truest of allies”: The New York Times, June 21, 1956.
“Mr. Truman is very popular”: Kansas City Times, June 20, 1956.
“Every person born”: Ibid., June 21, 1956.
“Give ’em, hell, Harricum!”: Ibid.
“I think we in this room”: The New York Times, June 22, 1956.
“A good many of the difficulties”: The Times (London), June 22, 1956.
“And—not least of all”: Ibid.
visit to London: HST Diary, June 21 (?), 1956, Off the Record, 336.
“England is prosperous”: Ibid., 337.
“It was all over too soon”: HST Diary, June 24, 1956, ibid., 338.
“He told me that he could do”: Ibid.
“Too bad he’s not campaigning”: Kansas City Times, June 29, 1956.
“Never [said the United Press]”: Independence Examiner, June 28, 1956.
“lacks the kind of fighting spirit”: McKeever, Adlai Stevenson, 376.
“Harry S. Truman had the Democratic”: The New York Times, August 12, 1956.
“When I arrived in Chicago”: HST to Acheson, August 29, 1956, HSTL.
“I have never wanted to pose”: HST to LBJ, December 11, 1956, LBJL.
“Dad sat there for a long time”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 621.
“I expect to be knee deep”: HST to Acheson, June 7, 1957, HSTL.
“Mr. Truman, who has abiding”: The New York Times, July 7, 1957.
labor union contributions: “Contributions of Labor Unions to Harry S. Truman Library, Inc.,” HSTL.
“Hey there, farmer!” HST telephone conversation with Sam Rayburn, July 15, 1958, Off the Record, 364.
net profit: Kirkendall, ed., The Harry S. Truman Encyclopedia, 129.
“Had it not been”: HST to John W. McCormack, January 10, 1957, Off the Record, 346.
“As you know, we passed”: Ibid.
“I would be proud”: HST to Acheson, October 15, 1952, HSTL.
“Mr. Truman is deeply”: Acheson to Thomas Bergin, July 12, 1954, HSTL.
HST and Yale librarian: Chester Kerr, author’s interview.
“I have never had a better time”: HST to Acheson, April 16, 1958, HSTL.
“Yale still rings”: HST to Acheson, M
ay 15, 1958, HSTL.
“He’s so damn happy”: Osborne, “Happy Days for Harry.”
getting a bigger kick: Phillips, “Truman at 75,” The New York Times Magazine, May 3, 1959.
“a man overflowing with life”: Ibid.
“She says I am just like”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 10, 1959.
“You know this five day week”: HST to Acheson, April 10, 1968, HSTL.
“where he can sit”: Unidentified article, February 3, 1960, Vertical Files, HSTL.
“Mr. Truman was one of the most thoughtful”: Essay by Phillip C. Brooks, February 16, 1971, HSTL.
HST and Benton’s drinking: Kansas City Star, March 14, 1989.
“Well, what the hell”: Benton, An Artist in America, 351.
“When a good politician”: Kansas City Star, April 27, 1959.
“I like being a nose buster”: HST to Acheson, April 20, 1955, HSTL.
“She and I spent”: HST to Acheson, February 19, 1959, HSTL.
“Do you suppose any President”: HST to Acheson, November 24, 1959, HSTL.
“It’s not the pope”: Miller Tapes, LBJL.
Kennedy’s notes: “Interview with Truman,” Dictated to Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln, 12:00 Noon, January 10, 1959, HSTL.
“Just tell him it was Harry Truman”: John Zentay, author’s interview.
“stub his toe”: Acheson to HST, April 14, 1960, HSTL.
“I hate to say this”: Ibid.
“without doubt”: Kansas City Star, May 13, 1960.
Acheson letter: Acheson to HST, June 27, 1960, HSTL.
“You’ll never know”: HST to Acheson, July 9, 1960, HSTL.
“I am going to Los Angeles”: HST to Agnes E. Meyer, June 25, 1960, Off the Record, 386.
“Your coming here is considered”: Memorandum from Hillman and Noyes to HST, undated, Post-Presidential Files, HSTL.
“rigged—or you will be charged”: Ibid.
HST press conference: The New York Times, July 3, 1961.
“I listened to your press”: Acheson to HST, July 17, 1960, HSTL.
“He could not have been”: Notes from Conversation of United Press Newsman with JFK, undated, HSTL.
“blue as indigo”: HST to Acheson, August 26, 1960, unsent, Off the Record, 390.
“Don’t get discouraged”: HST to Samuel Rosenman, August 22, 1960, HSTL.
“Now you are in for it”: Acheson to HST, August 12, 1960, HSTL.
“A nap after lunch”: “Memo on Mr. Truman’s Trips,” David Stowe Papers, HSTL.
“Although he moves into and through”: “Notes on Truman Trips During 1960 Presidential Campaign,” David Stowe Papers, HSTL.
“The campaign is ended”: HST to Acheson, November 21, 1960, HSTL.
“I’ve had a lot of fun”: HSTL research staff phone conversation with Paul Hume, December 21, 1979, HSTL.
“See, I told you”: Ibid.
“You know, she remembered”: Peggy Scott, author’s interview.
“You are making a contribution”: HST to Acheson, July 7, 1961, Off the Record, 395.
“Needless to say”: Ibid.
“I had thought he was not”: Merle Miller, author’s interview.
“Don’t try to make a play actor”: Aurthur, “The Wit and Sass of Harry S. Truman,” Esquire, August 1971.
“I think there were people”: Miller, author’s interview.
inclined to exaggerate: Miller, 13.
“Goddamn an eyewitness”: Miller Tapes, LBJL.
“He had something like Bryan”: Ibid.
“I haven’t seen him”: Ibid.
“He was a good man”: Ibid.
“came back rich with detail”: Aurthur, “Harry Truman Chuckles Dryly,” Esquire, September 1971.
“Because if while I’m talking”: Ibid.
“My God, he’s not old”: Miller, author’s interview.
hated long hair: Byron Stewart, Jr., author’s interview; Miller, 456.
“People in Independence”: Miller Tapes, LBJL.
“There were times”: Miller, author’s interview.
HST appalled by Bay of Pigs: HST to Acheson, May 3, 1961, HSTL.
“This is a terrible weakness”: Acheson to HST, July 14, 1961, HSTL.
“Keep writing”: HST to Acheson, July 18, 1961, HSTL.
“You must remember”: HST to Acheson, September 25, 1961, Off the Record, 397.
“If and when that happens”: HST to Acheson, December 20, 1962, HSTL.
“I just don’t like”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, 230.
“Matt Connelly has been”: HST to RFK, January 24, 1962, HSTL.
HST sends letter of gratitude: HST to JFK, December 3, 1962, HSTL.
“That old lady”: HST to Acheson, May 14, 1963, Off the Record, 407.
“Having come so close”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 418.
HST put to bed at Blair House: Wilroy and Prinz, Inside Blair House, 117.
Secret Service protection: Robert Lockwood, author’s interview.
“Thank you very much”: Remarks by Former President Harry S. Truman, Being the Occasion of Mr. Truman’s 80th Birthday, May 8, 1964, 88th Congress, 2nd Sess., Sen. Doc. No. 88.
HST falls: HST to Acheson, January 12, 1965.
“He doesn’t look a thing”: Ferrell, Harry S. Truman and the Modern American Presidency, 159.
“He would say ‘You’re doing…’ “: Thomas Melton, author’s interview.
“sad amazement” at HST’s appearance: Merriman Smith, UPI, July 31, 1965.
“Quite often we have”: Melton, author’s interview.
Nixon visit: Independence Examiner, March 21, 1969.
asked what he had played: Elizabeth Safly, author’s interview.
HST with grandchildren in baseball cap: Photo Archives, HSTL.
“Oh, to have a good comfortable”: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.
“No, young man”: Ken McCormick, author’s interview.
December 5 illness: Research Hospital and Medical Center, press release, December 5, 1972, HSTL.
December 6 “critical”: Ibid., December 6, 1972, 10:23 P.M. CST, HSTL.
“very serious”: Ibid, December 14, 1972, 9:00 A.M., CST, HSTL.
he answered, “Better”: Ibid., December 10, 1972, 2:00 P.M., HSTL.
“warm, sweet and most appreciative”: Quoted in Belton (Missouri) Star-Herald, December 28, 1972.
“He squeezed my hand”: Ibid.
“very, very small”: The New York Times, December 26, 1972.
Bess almost exhausted: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 421.
“Keep it simple”: Ibid., 422.
“This whole town”: Time, January 8, 1973.
staff watching grave filled in: Safly, author’s interview.
“He was not a hero”: Washington Star, December 29, 1972.
Alden Whitman interview: Whitman, Come to Judgment, xvii.
“I’m not sure”: Eric Sevareid, author’s interview.
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