“everything from Teheran”: HST Diary, April 13, 1945, Off the Record, 17.
“What a test”: Kansas City Star, April 15, 1945.
Truman left the White House: Drury, 412.
“Isn’t this nice”: Quoted in ibid., 413.
“Boys, if you ever pray”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 19.
“For just a moment”: Drury, 413.
“executive contempt for Congress”: Vandenberg, April 13, 1945, 167.
Stettinius report: Quoted in Memoirs, Vol. I, 15.
“never did talk”: Truman, Letters from Father, March 3, 1948, 106.
“It is needless”: Washington Post, April 13, 1945.
“I’m President Truman”: Paul Horgan, Oral History, HSTL.
“I still can’t call”: Wallace, The Price of Vision, 448.
“He’s the only one”: HST to Eleanor Roosevelt, September 1, 1945, Off the Record, 63.
“Have confidence”: Barkley, That Reminds Me, 197.
“I have come down here”: Quoted in Hardeman and Bacon, Rayburn: A Biography, 311–12.
“No…He just made it”: HST Diary, April 14, 1945, Off the Record, 18.
not on trial: Bishop, FDR’S Last Year, 646.
“But after all”: Morgenthau, Diaries, Vol. III, 423.
“Terrible”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 31.
“Mr. President”: Ibid, 42.
“With great humility”: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Harry S. Truman…(cited hereafter as PP, HST), April 16, 1945, 2.
“bond of friendship”: Washington Star, April 17, 1945.
“At this moment”: PP, HST, April 16, 1945, 3.
“He’s one of us”: McNaughton Papers, April 14, 1945, HSTL.
“your ability to discharge”: Henry Luce to HST, April 17, 1945, HSTL.
“May I say”: Archibald John Brier to HST, April 17, 1945.
“Good luck, Harry”: Quoted in Donovan, Conflict and Crisis, 19.
“Well, I have had”: HST to MET and MJT, April 16, 1945, HSTL.
First press conference: PP, HST, April 17, 1945, 8–13.
“direct” performance: Leahy, I Was There, 349.
lived five lifetimes: Memoirs, Vol. I, 53.
Three days later: PP, HST, April 20, 1945, 16–19.
“naturally smart boy”: Newsweek, August 15, 1949.
“He made first-class citizens”: George Tames, author’s interview.
“Stick with me”: Quoted in Smith, ed., Merriman Smith’s Book of Presidents: A White House Memoir, 56.
“He was alert”: George Elsey, author’s interview.
“See, with President Roosevelt”: Floyd Boring, author’s interview.
“tragically inadequate”: Daniels, 27.
“To the White House this morning”: Hassett, “The President Was My Boss,” Saturday Evening Post, November 28, 1953.
“Missourians are most in evidence”: Ayers Diary, April 17, 1945, HSTL.
“the lounge of the Lion’s Club”: Quoted in Steinberg, The Man from Missouri, 13.
McKim was “weird”: Jonathan Daniels, Oral History, HSTL.
Prohibition gangster: Ayers Diary, April 17, 1945, HSTL.
“We were all a strange lot”: Rosenman, “Harry S. Truman: Man from Independence,” American Heritage (unpublished), 70.
“Well, he was a sergeant”: Matt Connelly, Oral History, HSTL.
“The fact is”: Ayers Diary, May 14, 1945, HSTL.
“balance and tact”: Ibid.
“Tell them I don’t authorize”: Harry Vaughan, Oral History, HSTL.
“Hoover’s hatred”: Sullivan, The Bureau, 38.
“We want no Gestapo”: HST Memorandum, May 12, 1945, Off the Record, 22.
“honest and friendly”: Quoted in Churchill, The Second World War. Vol. VI: Triumph and Tragedy, 484.
“He’ll make enemies”: Drury, 418.
“I don’t think you know”: Samuel Rosenman, Oral History, HSTL.
“It was a wonderful relief’: Stimson Diary, April 18, 1945.
“Changes in the battle situation”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 51.
Leahy was struck: Leahy, 348.
“to get on the inside”: Rigdon, with Derieux, White House Sailor, 183.
“I pray you believe”: Quoted in Snyder, The War, 520.
“a keen appreciation”: Kennan, Memoirs, 1925–1950, 233.
“And anyway the Russians”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 70–71.
“I can testify”: Quoted in Halle, The Cold War as History, 38.
“Averell is right”: Quoted in Truman, Harry S. Truman, 255.
“It would be one”: Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 437.
“We must not permit”: Quoted in Truman, Harry S. Truman, 437.
“Russia will emerge”: OSS File, April 2, 1945, HSTL.
April 6 cable: Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 201.
not a man of his word: Morgan, F.D.R., A Biography, 762.
“minor misunderstandings”: Harriman and Abel, 439–40.
“I would minimize”: Ibid.
“barbarian invasion”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 73.
happy with 85 percent: Gaddis, 203.
“The White House upstairs”: Quoted in Truman, Bess W. Truman, 260.
like a ghost house: West, with Kotz, Upstairs at the White House, 58.
“go to hell”: Quoted in Forrestal Diaries, 50.
“for fear we are rushing”: Stimson Diary, April 23, 1945.
Forrestal strongly disagreed: Forrestal Diaries, 50.
no intention of issuing: Memoirs, Vol. I, 78.
“until we have done”: Ibid., 79.
“I am very sorry”: Stimson Diary, April 23, 1945.
“I have never been talked to”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 82.
Bohlen’s account: Bohlen, Witness to History, 213.
“a little taken aback”: Harriman and Abel, 453.
the best news he had heard: Vandenberg, 176.
“I think it is very important”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 85.
“Mr. President, I don’t like”: Quoted in Morison, Turmoil and Tradition, 609.
“a real man”: HST to Jonathan Daniels, February 26, 1950, unsent, Off the Record, 174.
“Within four months”: Stimson Diary, April 25, 1945.
“The President took”: Ibid.
Truman told him to go ahead: Stimson and Bundy, On Active Service in Peace and War, 616.
“The President did not show”: Quoted in Sherwin, A World Destroyed, 293.
“This is a big project”: Quoted in Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, 625.
“It might perhaps”: Quoted in Sherwin, 284.
Truman measurements: Paul Shinkman to Eben Ayers, May 10, 1945, HSTL.
“It’s a tough job”: Stone, The War Years. 1939–1945, 281–82.
“He ought to surrender it”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 91.
“at a brisk trot”: West, with Kotz, 61.
“We have received so much mail”: MJT to HST, April 24, 1945, HSTL.
“I do hope”: MJT to HST, May 1, 1945, HSTL.
“I arrived home”: MJT to HST, May 7, 1945, HSTL.
“You both have done”: HST to MET and MJT, April 21, 1945, HSTL.
“This is a solemn”: PP, HST, May 8, 1945, 44.
“straight one-two to the jaw”: Sherwin, 172.
“like people from across”: Wallace, 450–51.
“His sincerity”: Ayers Diary, May 26, 1945, HSTL.
“show them how much”: Churchill, 437.
“it is my present intention”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 216.
“Mr. President, in these next two months”: Churchill, 497.
May 12 Churchill telegram: Gilbert, Winston Churchill. Never Despair, 6.
“It is a very, very hard position”: HST to Mrs. Emmy Southern, May 13, 1945, Off the Record, 23.
“air of quiet confidence”: Eden, Memoirs, 621.
“To have a reasonably”: HST Diary, May 22,
1945, Off the Record, 35.
Martha Ellen Truman’s visit: The New York Times, May 12, 1945.
prefer to sleep on the floor: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 266.
“Oh, you couldn’t help but”: Floyd Boring, author’s interview.
“My bedroom is pink”: Truman, Souvenir, 98.
story of the old-fashioneds: West, with Kotz, 75.
“stand no fakers”: Fields, My 21 Years at the White House, 122.
“correct but not formal”: West, 58.
“He knew when a stenographer’s”: Smith, 60.
“this was the first time”: Fields, 120.
“Not built right”: HST to EW, March 19, 1941, Dear Bess, 455.
“The President seemed relieved”: Quoted in Donovan, 28.
“And that was about all”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. I, 698.
“Saw Herbert Hoover”: HST Diary, June 1, 1945, Off the Record, 40.
“I can’t understand it”: HST Diary, May 27, 1945, ibid., 38.
“push ahead as fast”: Quoted in Rhodes, 646.
“visual effect of an atomic bombing”: Quoted in Sherwin, 208.
“with reluctance”: Quoted in Wyden, Day One, 163.
“a remarkable document”: Ibid., 154.
“The idea of”: Yale University Atomic Bomb File, HSTL.
“Have been going through”: HST Diary, June 1, 1945, Off the Record, 39.
“as a new weapon”: Stimson Diary, May 31, 1945.
June 6 Stimson meeting: Stimson Diary, June 1 and 6, 1945.
“What a puny effort”: C. L. Sulzberger, World War II, 114.
“outdoing Hitler”: Stimson Diary, June 6, 1945.
“the earliest possible date”: Quoted in Morison, 621.
“The ultimate responsibility”: Stimson and Bundy, On Active Service in Peace and War, 617.
“straight military objective”: Cray, General of the Army, 538.
“We must offset”: Quoted in Pogue, George C. Marshall: Statesman 1945–1959, 17.
“The opinions of our scientific”: Quoted in Bundy, Danger and Survival, 71.
“shock value”: Stimson, On Active Service, 617.
“We regarded the matter”: Quoted in Mosley, Marshall, 337–38.
“only by men”: Quoted in Rhodes, 637.
“His general demeanor”: Quoted in Wyden, 143.
“render the Russians”: Ibid., 142.
“Oppenheimer didn’t share”: Ibid., 143.
“the damn thing”: Quoted in Phillips, The Truman Presidency, 54.
“We are on our way”: Quoted in Truman, Souvenir, 109.
“I hope—sincerely hope”: HST Diary, June 1, 1945, Off the Record, 40.
“Don’t think over six”: Ibid.
“Just two months ago”: HST to EWT, June 12, 1945, Dear Bess, 515–16.
“He’s a nice fellow”: HST to EWT, June 19, 1945, Ibid., 516.
“I’m always so lonesome”: HST Diary, June 1, 1945, Off the Record, 40.
A Gallup Poll: Donovan, 21.
“And as usual”: Ayers Diary, June 18, 1945, HSTL.
“Nothing really important”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. I, 92.
“always been our friends”: HST Diary, June 7, 1945, Off the Record, 44.
First time Hopkins thanked: Miller, 225.
“Mr. Prima Donna”: HST Diary, June 17, 1945, Off the Record, 47.
“He wants an estimate”: Quoted in Sherwin, 336.
“I have to decide”: HST Diary, June 17, 1945, Off the Record, 47.
June 18, 1945, meeting: Feis, The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II, 10.
“We were beginning”: John J. McCloy, author’s interview.
June 26, 1945, speech: PP, HST, June 26, 1945.
“Dad loved”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 266.
“I shall attempt”: HST, Speech Files, June 27, 1945, HSTL.
“I am anxious”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 279–280.
July 2, 1945, speech: PP, HST, July 2, 1945, 153–55.
no buzzer: Woolf, “President Truman Talks About His Job,” The New York Times Magazine, July 15, 1945.
he would “soon go under”: Ibid.
“Punish her war criminals”: Stimson Diary, May 16, 1945.
Morgenthau meeting: Morgenthau, 466.
Morgenthau didn’t know: Jonathan Daniels interview with HST, November 12, 1949, HSTL.
“I am getting ready”: HST to MET and MJT, July 3, 1945, HSTL.
“How I hate”: HST Diary, July 7, 1945, Off the Record, 49.
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“Today’s prime fact”: Stimson quoted in Compton, Atomic Quest, 219.
“like a moving circus”: HST to MET and MJT, January 27, 1947, HSTL.
“It seems to take two warships”: HST to MT, July 14, 1945, HSTL.
“You who have not seen”: Film Collection, HSTL.
Truman on Fred Canfil: Hersey, Aspects of the Presidency, 39.
“At the end of the war”: O. Müller Grote to HST, February 10, 1956, HSTL.
a “nightmare of a house”: The New York Times, August 3, 1945.
“They erected a couple of”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 50.
“wholly inadequate”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 9.
“He comes from Owensborough”: HST to MET and MJT, January 27, 1947, HSTL.
Bohlen, too, was struck: Bohlen, Witness to History, 226.
“astonishingly well prepared”: Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 485.
“Mr. Russia” and “Mr. Great Britain”: HST Diary, July 7, 1945, Off the Record, 49.
“half so badly”: HST to EWT, February 19, 1916, Dear Bess, 187.
“I’ve studied more”: HST to EWT, May 26, 1918, HSTL.
“Haven’t you ever been”: Woolf, “President Truman Talks About His Job,” The New York Times Magazine, July 15, 1945.
Prime Minister padding down the hall: Wilroy and Prinz, Inside the Blair House, 7–8.
Eleanor Roosevelt had written: Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone, 29.
“I must confess, sir”: See note for page 874, Chap. 17.
“He says he is sure”: Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill. Never Despair, 61.
“We had a most pleasant”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945, Off the Record, 51.
“Very Secret, Urgent”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. I, 876.
Sato responded: Ibid., 883.
“good soldiers and millions”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945, Off the Record, 52.
“It is a terrible thing”: The New York Times, July 17, 1945.
“I never saw such destruction”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 341.
“absolute ruin”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945, Off the Record, 52.
modern war…“brought home”: Leahy, I Was There, 396.
“I thought of Carthage”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945, Off the Record, 52.
He kept thinking: HST to EWT, July 20, 1945, Dear Bess, 520.
“This is what would have happened”: Gilbert, 61.
Anne O’Hare McCormick column: The New York Times, July 18, 1945.
“Operated on this morning”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 1360.
“Promptly a few minutes”: HST Diary, July 17, 1945, Off the Record, 53.
The truth was: Volkogonov, Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy, 499.
As Stalin got out of the car: George Elsey, author’s interview.
“I got to my feet”: HST Diary, July 17, 1945, Off the Record, 53.
“A little bit of a squirt”: Film Collection, HSTL.
Stalin sure Hitler was alive and in hiding: Byrnes, Speaking Frankly, 68.
“as agreed at Yalta”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 1586.
“You could if y
ou wanted to”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 541.
“and I felt hopeful”: Ibid., 342.
“The truth is he is a very likeable person”: Byrnes, 45.
“honest—but smart as hell”: HST Diary, July 17, 1945, Off the Record, 53.
“He’ll be in the Jap War”: Ibid.
Time magazine on Stalin: Time, February 5, 1945.
“There was little in Stalin’s demeanor”: Bohlen, 340.
“When one man dies”: Antonov-Ovseyenko, The Time of Stalin: Portrait of Tyranny, 278.
“I was impressed”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 340–42.
“Since the Yalta Conference”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 643.
“Churchill said he should like”: Ibid, p. 54.
“So tomorrow we will have prepared”: Ibid., 61.
“Let’s divide it”: Ibid, p. 59.
“woolly and verbose”: Gilbert, 65.
HST took as act of disloyalty: HST to MT, July 29, 1945, HSTL.
“The boys say”: HST to EWT, July 18, 1945, Dear Bess, 519.
“Churchill talks all the time”: HST to MET and MJT, July 18, 1945, HSTL.
“Doctor had just returned”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 1360–61.
HST appeared extremely pleased: Churchill, 554.
“at any rate they had something”: Ehrman, Grand Strategy, 302–03.
“lull the Japanese”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 1588.
Stalin’s disclosure: Bohlen, 236.
The Generalissimo must visit: HST Diary, July 18, 1945, Off the Record, 54.
“We cannot get away”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945, Vol. II, 96.
“I’m not going to stay”: HST Diary, July 18, 1945, Off the Record, 54.
To Bess, earlier in the day: HST to EWT, July 18, 1945, Dear Bess, 519.
“Believe Japs”: HST Diary, July 18, 1945, Off the Record, 54.
“sick of the whole business”: HST to EWT, July 20, 1945, Dear Bess, 520.
“A young Army captain”: The New York Times, August 14, 1945.
“The old man loves music”: HST to EWT, July 20, 1945, Dear Bess, 520.
“He was direct, unpretentious”: Bradley and Blair, A General’s Life, 444.
Eisenhower opposed use of the bomb: Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe, 443.
Eisenhower would concede: Eisenhower, Eisenhower at War, 1943–1945, 692.
truly believed that “Manhattan”: HST Diary, July 18, 1945, Off the Record, 54.
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