David McCullough Library E-book Box Set

by David McCullough

  “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.

  Bibliography

  AUTHOR’S INTERVIEWS

  Alice Acheson, Washington, D.C. • David Acheson, Washington, D.C. • Pat Acheson, Washington, D.C. • Joseph Alsop, Washington, D.C. • James P. Aylward, Jr., Kansas City, Missouri • Lauren Bacall, Washington, D.C. • Sue Bailey, Lincoln, Nebraska • Lindy Boggs, Washington, D.C. • Richard Bolling, Crumpton, Maryland • Floyd Boring, Washington, D.C. • Mary Salisbury Bostian, Independence, Missouri • Bernard Brannon, Kansas City, Missouri • Mary Shaw Branton, Kansas City, Missouri • Ellsworth Bunker, Washington, D.C. • Rufus Burrus, Independence, Missouri • Hilary Bush, Kansas City, Missouri • Jack Capps, West Point, New York • Liz Carpenter, Austin, Texas • Jimmy Carter, Atlanta, Georgia • Marquis Childs, Washington, D.C. • Clark Clifford, Washington, D.C. • Wilbur Cohen, Austin, Texas • John Sherman Cooper, Washington, D.C. • Bill Crotty, Kansas City, Missouri • Clifton Daniel, New York City • Margaret Truman Daniel, New York City • Matt Devoe, Kansas City, Missouri • John Doohan, Kansas C
ity, Missouri • Peggy Dow, Copenhagen, Denmark • Joseph Dush, Willard, Ohio • Alfred Eisenstaedt, Menemsha, Massachusetts • George Elsey, Washington, D.C. • Lyman Field, Kansas City, Missouri • Stanley Fike, Washington, D.C. • Francis Fitzgerald, Kansas City, Missouri • Gerald Ford, New York City • Polly Fowler, Independence, Missouri • Clayton Fritchey, West Tisbury, Massachusetts • Virginia Geier, Kansas City, Missouri • Sue Gentry, Independence, Missouri • Rosalind Gibson, Independence, Missouri • D. W. Gilmore, Kansas City, Missouri • T. Sterling Goddard, Grandview, Missouri • Wallace Graham, Kansas City, Missouri • John Hahn, Washington, D.C. • Elliott Harris, Kansas City, Missouri • Steve Harrison, Independence, Missouri • Ardis Haukenberry, Independence, Missouri • Ken Hechler, Boston, Massachusetts • John Hersey, Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts • Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, Bedford, New York • Bernard Hoffman, Kansas City, Missouri • Robert Hopkins, Washington, D.C. • Paul Horgan, Middletown, Connecticut • Dorothy Davis Johnson, Kansas City, Missouri • Lady Bird Johnson, Austin, Texas • J. Walter J. Jones, Kansas City, Missouri • Greta Kempton, New York City • Chester Kerr, New Haven, Connecticut • Geraldine Ketchum, Kansas City, Missouri • Kathleen Moore Knight, Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts • Philip Lagerquist, Independence, Missouri • Johanna Laughlin, Kansas City, Missouri • Tom Leathers, Kansas City, Missouri • Sol Linowitz, Washington, D.C. • Robert B. Lockwood, Independence, Missouri • Eugene McCarthy, Woodville, Virginia • Gerrard McCann, Norfolk, Virginia • John J. McCloy, New York City • Ken McCormick, New York City • Harry McPherson, Washington, D.C. • David Melton, Independence, Missouri • Thomas Melton, Independence, Missouri • Merle Miller, Brewster, New York • Grace Minor, Independence, Missouri • Gerald Mitchell, Kansas City, Missouri • Paul Nagel, Independence, Missouri • Terence O’Brien, Kansas City, Missouri • Reathel Odum, Charleston, South Carolina • Charlton Ogburn, Beaufort, South Carolina • Gertrude Field Oliver, Kansas City, Missouri • John W. Oliver, Kansas City, Missouri • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Chilmark, Massachusetts • Frank Pace, Jr., Boston, Massachusetts • Beverly Pendergast, Kansas City, Missouri • Robert Pendergast, Kansas City, Missouri • Claude D. Pepper, Washington, D.C. • Catherine Pruett, Kansas City, Missouri • Joseph Pruett, Kansas City, Missouri • Jennings Randolph, Washington, D.C. • Ronald Reagan, Washington, D.C. • James Reston, Washington, D.C. • Richard Rhodes, Kansas City, Missouri • Abe Ribicoff, New York City • Matthew Ridgway, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Chautauqua, New York • James H. Rowe, Jr., Washington, D.C. • James Rowley, Washington, D.C. • Liz Safly, Independence, Missouri • Harrison Salisbury, Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts • Dwight Salmon, Chilmark, Massachusetts • Frank Sayre, Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts • Ray Scherer, Washington, D.C. • Peggy Scott, Chilmark, Massachusetts • Rex Scouten, Washington, D.C. • Eric Sevareid, Washington, D.C. • Robert Sherrod, Washington, D.C. • Stephen Slaughter, Grandview, Missouri • John Snyder, Charleston, South Carolina • John Steele, Washington, D.C. • Byron Stewart, Jr., Independence, Missouri • Charlotte Stewart, Independence, Missouri • Nathan Stinnette, Crescent City, Florida • Chris J. Stolfa, Kansas City, Missouri • David Stowe, Washington, D.C. • Richard L. Strout, Boston, Massachusetts • James Swoyer, Oskaloosa, Kansas • Martha Ann Truman Swoyer, Oskaloosa, Kansas • James Symington, Washington, D.C. • George Tames, Washington, D.C. • Arthur Tighe, Kansas City, Missouri • J. C. Truman, Independence, Missouri • Roger Tubby, Washington, D.C. • Regna Vanatta, Grandview, Missouri • Sam Vaughan, New York City • May Wallace, Independence, Missouri • J. B. West, Falls Church, Virginia • David Wheeler, Kansas City, Missouri • Conn Withers, Liberty, Missouri • John Zentay, Washington, D.C. • Benedict K. Zobrist, Independence, Missouri