“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, May 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, autho
r’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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Dean Acheson • Eben A. Ayers • Gaylon Babcock • Thomas Hart Benton • Frederick J. Bowman • Welbern Bowman • Oscar L. Chapman • Henry P. Chiles • Tom C. Clark • Lucius D. Clay • Clark M. Clifford • Emilio G. Collado • Matthew J. Connelly • Clifton Daniel • Jonathan Daniels • Donald S. Dawson • Mildred Lee Dryden • Harry Easley • George M. Elsey • Tom L. Evans •
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DISSERTATIONS
Heed, Thomas J. Prelude to Whistlestop: Harry S. Truman the Apprentice Campaigner. Ed. D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1975
Schmidtlein, Eugene F. Truman the Senator. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Missouri, 1962
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Audio Collection • Newsreel, Film and Motion Picture Collection • Photographic Collection
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