by A. J. Baime
Hoover, Herbert, 68, 119, 181
Hoover, J. Edgar, 158
Hopkins, Harry, 20, 113
Security Council veto dispute, 240
and USSR, 211–13, 224–25, 231, 243–46
Hornig, Donald, 285
Howe, Clarence Decatur “C. D.,” 348
Hubbard, Jack, 283
Hull, Cordell, 306, 352
Hurley, Patrick, 313, 317, 320, 351
Huston, Luther, 143
I
Independence Examiner, 63
Iraq, 220–22
Irvin, Robert, 86, 89
Israel, 357
Italy
UN admission, 309
Venezia Giulia, treaty with Yugoslavia, 240
Venezia Giulia seizure, 205–6
J
Jackson, Andrew, 49
Jackson, Robert H., 119
and Nuremberg trials, 157, 232–33
Jackson, Samuel, 99, 105
Jackson County politics, 63–69
Pendergast machine violence, 69
Jacobson, Eddie, 55, 61–62, 111, 137, 264
Japan, 269–70. See also Potsdam Declaration
after Pearl Harbor, 216, 250
atomic bomb or invasion, 251–52, 270
emperor, 218, 305–6, 313–14, 347
Hiroshima, military target, 333, 336, 337–39, 341, 343
incendiary strikes, 8, 147–50, 214–17, 275, 332–33
meeting on forcing surrender of, 248–49
Okinawa, 8, 146, 255
peace feelers, 275, 287, 301, 305, 325
Pearl Harbor, 87–88
Rape of Nanking, 216
Soviet entry into war, 306–7
surrenders, 348–49, 350, 352–53, 355
treatment of POWs, 216
Japanese Thirty-Second Army, 8
Jefferson, Thomas, 114
Jodl, Alfred, 186
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 121–22, 217–18, 248–51
K
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 232
“Kansas City massacre,” 69
Kansas City Star, 67, 74, 82, 97, 159
Keitel, Wilhelm, 232
Kennan, George, 17, 162, 207, 289
Keynes, John Maynard, 153–54
King, Ernest, 248
Kiplinger, Willard M., 10
Kleenex company, machine gun mounts, 120
Korea, 351, 356, 357
Ku Klux Klan, 109
L
LaCapra, Michael “Jimmy Needles,” 74
Laurence, William L., 345
Lawrence, Ernest, 235
Lazia, “Brother John,” 74
League of Nations, 176
Leahy, William, 10, 307
atomic bomb, 165–66, 173, 276, 330, 358
chief of staff, 121–23, 127, 139
Germany, 186–87, 281
Japan, war in, 216, 250–51, 306, 347
military briefings to president, 139
Polish situation, 165–66
Potsdam meeting, 275, 295, 303, 325, 329
on Roosevelt, 15, 22, 29, 113
on Truman, 143
on Yalta, 161–62
LeMay, Curtis, “Iron Ass,” 8, 147–49, 214–15, 275, 332–33
Lend-Lease law, 203–5, 224–25
Lewis, J. Hamilton, 76
Lewis, Robert, 336–37
List, Eugene, 307–8
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 52
Long, Dewey, 21
Long, Huey, 77
Los Alamos. See Manhattan Project
Los Angeles Times, 119
Luce, Clare Boothe, 109
M
MacArthur, Douglas, 350–52, 355–56
MacLeish, Archibald, 164
Magnuson, Warren, 347
Manhattan Project, 126, 169–72, 252, 358. See also Japan
and British, 172
deadline for test prior to Big Three meeting, 252
decision to drop the atomic bomb, 314–15
expense of, 173
Fat Man bombing of Nagasaki, 345–46
final recommendations by Stimson, 233–34, 314
Hanford, Washington, plutonium production in, 171
Interim Committee, 190, 236, 286
Little Boy bomb, 326, 333–36, 341, 343
Marshall suggests warning Japanese civilians, 234
morality of, 252–54
plutonium production in Pasco, Washington, 92–93
press briefed, 332–33, 340
scientists’ progress, 235
scientists’ reaction to Roosevelt’s death, 37
Target Committee, 190–91
third bomb prepared, 348
Trinity test, 281–87, 299–300, 311–12
Truman and, 33, 168–69, 173–74, 335, 338–41
and USSR, 174, 300–301, 316, 317, 344–45
Mansfield, Mike, 347
Mao Tse-tung, 208, 351
Marks, Ted, 61, 111
Marshall, George C., 7, 86, 113, 121–22, 170, 222
argues for ground invasion of Japan, 248–50
atomic bomb, opinion on use, 359
report on Nazi death camps, 192
Martin, Joseph, 123
Masaryk, Jan, 183
McCloy, John J., 151, 152, 248, 251–52, 305
McCormack, John W., 123
McDuffie, Lizzie, 14
McIntire, Ross, 15, 23–24
McKellar, Kenneth, 187–88
McKim, Eddie, 6, 12, 25, 57, 108, 119, 132, 158, 200
Mee, Charles L., Jr., 317
Menefee, Walter, 59
Menor, David, 147
Messall, Victor, 79, 81, 83
Milligan, Jacob “Tuck,” 73
Minton, Sherman, 100
Mission to Moscow (Davies), 166
Missouri, 263
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 35, 127, 162, 164, 295, 320
“I have never been talked to like that in my life,” 166
at San Francisco Conference, 182
and Truman, 137, 164–66
Morgenthau, Henry, 15, 30, 144, 155
memorandum on nation’s economy, 152, 154
in Truman’s administration, 132–33, 268–69
Morgenthau Plan, 132–33, 210
Mr. Citizen (Truman), 363
Mundt, Karl, 204
Murphy, Harry, 57
Murrow, Edward R., 150, 189, 332, 351–52
Mussolini, Benito, shot by partisans, 179
Myers, Harry T., 195
N
National Defense Research Committee, 170
Nelson, Donald, 76
New Republic, 107
newspapers and reporters, 125–26, 139, 140–42
New Yorker, 146, 175–76, 223
New York Times, 74, 86, 104, 140, 143, 173, 202, 263–64, 345, 351
Nimitz, Chester, 146
Nixon, Robert, 27, 141, 199–200, 239, 273, 275, 281
Noland, Ethel and Nellie, 44, 48, 49, 60
Norstad, Larry, 147
O
O’Conor, Herbert, 105
Odum, Reathel, 5, 78, 118
Ohrdruf death camp, 7
O’Mahoney, Joseph, 347
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 37, 170–71, 234–36, 252–53, 283–84, 286
Osmeña, Sergio, 158
P
Parsons, William Sterling, 336, 343
Patton, George, 7, 36
Pauley, Edwin, 95–96, 103, 157, 322, 351
Paullin, James, 23–24
Pavlov, Vladimir, 165, 288, 295, 308, 316, 321
Pearson, Drew, 238, 256
Pendergast, “Boss” Tom, 11, 64, 65, 69, 70–72, 74, 78–79, 113
Pendergast, James, 5, 111
Pendergast, Mike, 63–64
Pentagon, 9–10
Perkins, Frances, 29, 155
Perkins, Pansy, 45
Pershing, John J., 56
Peters, Mize, 66
Poland, 193, 309
deal between Russians and Poles, 231
State Departm
ent on international relations, 130–31
Truman’s meetings with Molotov, 163–66
and USSR, 18–19, 127–28, 136–37, 309
Yalta agreements on, 113
Potsdam Declaration, 270, 313, 317, 320, 340, 346–47
Japan’s response, 324
suicide bombings, 324
Potsdam meeting, 211, 226–27, 267, 291–98, 302–3, 304–5, 307–11, 326–29, 331–32, 343
attendees and agenda, 295–96
Churchill at, 268, 295, 302, 304, 319
German warship question, 296–97
preparation and travel, 272–73, 275–78, 286, 328–31
recognition of satellite states, 316
reparations from Germany, 321–23
Stalin at, 302, 304–5, 320
state dinners at, 307, 311
Truman in Berlin, 281, 308–9
Truman meeting with Stalin, 288–90, 301
Truman meets Churchill, 279–80, 299
USSR entry into the war against Japan, 289, 315
Pulitzer, Joseph, Jr., 156
R
Rabi, Isidor, 284
Rankin, Jeannette, 88
Rayburn, Sam, 25, 27, 30, 94–95, 123, 135
Reiff, Henry, 258
Reilly, Mike, 23, 26
Reinsch, Leonard, 118, 237
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 232
Richards, James, 192
Ricketts, Floyd, 55, 57–58
Rigdon, William, 114, 303
Rise to Globalism (Ambrose & Brinkley), 359
Roach, Neale, 103
Roberts, Roy, 97
Robertson, William, 178
Robinson, H. G., 86
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 23–24, 26–27, 30, 99, 141, 159–60, 247, 343
atomic bomb, opinion on use, 359
on Germany’s surrender, 188
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 70, 198
“Arsenal of Democracy” fireside chat, 84, 120
cable to Truman after election, 111
East Coast establishment, 33, 132, 136, 224
fourth term, and ill health, 10–12, 14–16, 112
secretly in Chicago, 98–99
Senate votes for war after speech, 87–88
and Truman, 21, 114
and USSR, 17–20, 22, 114
Warm Springs, 14, 21
Roosevelt, Franklin D., death of, 23–24, 133. See also Truman, Harry S., on Roosevelt’s death
cabinet meeting called, 27, 30
press alerted, 27–29
reaction of the country, 31–32, 35
state funeral, 121, 133–34
Roosevelt, Theodore, 49–50
Rosenman, Sam, 99, 181, 218, 248, 331
Ross, Charlie, 156–57, 248, 257, 259, 261–62, 272
Rowley, James, 26
Russell, Richard, 348
Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer, 21
S
Sachs, Alexander, 169
Sacred Cow (president’s plane), 195–97, 256–57, 260
Saltonstall, Leverett, 12
San Francisco conference, 33, 121–22, 175, 189
charter signing, 259
disagreements among Allies, 182–83, 189
huge welcome for Truman, 258
and Poland, 183
Security Council veto power, 206–7, 240
Truman radio address, 176
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 198
Schwellenbach, Lewis, 199, 342
Second Armored “Hell on Wheels” Division, 277
Sermon, Roger, 260
Shannon, Joe, 64
Sherman, James, 50
Sherwin, Martin, 235
Sherwood, Robert, 35
Shoop, Duke, 159
Shoumatoff, Elizabeth, 22
Simmons, Bill, 118
Smith, Ira, 184
Smith, Merriman, 139, 188
Snyder, John, 132, 248
Soong, T. V., 208, 271
Spaatz, Carl, 343–44, 355
Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, 84–86, 88–89
Spitzer, Abe, 335
Stalin, Joseph, 16–20, 120, 288–89
heated meeting with Harriman, 136–37
and Japan, 244–46
refuses to announce Germany’s surrender, 186–87
reneges on Yalta agreements, 126–27
and San Francisco conference, 127
secret agreements with Roosevelt, 161–62
Stark, Lloyd, 79, 81–83
State Department, 17, 129–31, 151
Stettinius, Edward, 27, 30–31, 121–22, 126, 144, 155, 259
learns of replacement by Byrnes, 258–59
at San Francisco conference, 175–76, 182, 240, 258
U.S. representative to the United Nations, 262
Stimson, Henry, 30–31, 33, 86, 121, 152, 155, 166, 168, 233–35, 241, 268
atomic bomb, 92–93, 172, 297, 311–12, 314–15, 326, 338, 340, 359
cabinet meetings, Truman’s, 155
Interim Committee, 190–91
on Japan, 215, 250, 269–70
on Potsdam meeting, 271
report on Nazi death camps, 192
ultimatum and warning to Japan drafted, 287
and USSR, 210–11, 287
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 74, 82, 156
stock market crash, 67–68
Stone, Harlan F., 30, 32, 111, 222
Strout, Richard, 107
Suckley, Margaret “Daisy,” 21, 22
Summerlin, George Thomas, 220
Susloparov, Ivan, 180
Suzuki, Kantarō, 324
Sweeney, Charles, 346
T
Taft, William Howard, 49
Teller, Edward, 284–85
Tibbets, Paul, 191, 334, 337
Time, 89, 114, 145, 215, 218–19
Tinian, 333–34
Tito, Josip Broz, 205–6, 243
Togo, Shigenori, 313
Tolman, Richard, 170
Tomiko Morimoto, 337
Truman, Elizabeth “Bess,” 4, 104–6, 120, 225
attends oath of office, 28, 31–32
as First Lady, 106, 118, 141, 201, 264
“Payroll Bess,” 97–98, 109
in Washington DC, 75
Truman, Harry (nephew), 299
Truman, Harry S., 159
early life, 11, 41–43, 45–46
early politics, 50
health and overwork, 90–91
Truman, Harry S., and Bess Wallace, 48–49, 51, 60–61, 65, 92, 145, 360
loneliness for Bess, 239, 247, 323
meet as a six year olds, 43–44
moves, 129, 137, 360
unhappy family, 225–26
Truman, Harry S., business and finance
early jobs and farm, 47–48
financial difficulties, 51–53
Grandview farm, 84, 261
Truman & Jacobson, 61–62, 65–66
Truman, Harry S., diary and letters
on Berlin, 279, 281
to Bess, 56, 60, 238, 273
to family from Senate, 13
on the FBI, 158
to his mother, 157, 187, 189–90
on Jackson County politics, 69–70
letters from Missouri friends, 137–38
memoirs, on being president, 139
reaction to Roosevelt’s death, 33–34
on reporters, 196
on running for the Senate, 72–73
Truman, Harry S., education
extensive reading, 44–45
high school graduation, 46
Kansas City Law School, 65
Truman, Harry S., in politics. See also Democratic convention 1944
Jackson County judge (commissioner), 63–69
Kansas City courthouse, 67
paved roads in rural Kansas, 66–67
Truman, Harry S., on Roosevelt’s death, 30–32, 33–34, 133–34
Truman, Harry S., president, 142, 199, 356
app
ointments, 132
assassination attempt, 198 n
comparison to Roosevelt, 141, 143–44, 198, 301–2
and Congress, 124, 232
considers resigning, 318
domestic issues, 247–48
first day as president, 117–28
first message to Congress, 122, 135–36
flies to Tacoma, Washington, 256
Independence speech, 262
intimate knowledge of the home front, 120
loneliness of, 226
poker games, 199–200, 205, 239, 275
recreation and escape from stress, 239
reelection, 357
relationship with staff, 198–99
relationship with the press, 125
trip home to Missouri, 260–61
Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan, 357
war cabinet and joint chiefs initial meeting, 121–22
Truman, Harry S., senator, 76–78
Pendergast and, 70–71, 75–76, 77–79
Senate campaign, 73–74, 80–84, 107
Truman committee importance, 89–90
Truman, Harry S., vice president, 3–6, 11–13, 25–26, 38
presides over Senate, 112
Truman, Harry S., VP campaign, 107–12
Truman, Harry S., World War I, 55–60
129th Field Artillery Regiment, 53–54, 58–59
Truman, John Anderson, 41–42, 47, 49, 51
Truman, John C. (nephew), 356
Truman, John Vivian (brother), 159
Truman, Margaret, 4, 28, 31–32, 78, 143, 185, 201, 222, 238
Truman, Martha Ellen (Mamma), 41–42, 45, 49, 52, 61, 107, 110, 144, 343
flies on the Sacred Cow, 195–97
primary campaign of 1940, 82
reporters in Missouri, 37
Truman, Mary Jane, 36–37, 43–44, 54, 84, 187, 195, 196, 197, 200
Truman-Wheeler bill, 78–79
Tully, Grace, 27, 99
Turkey, Soviet Union and, 309
Twain, Mark, 198
Twenty-First Bomber Command, 8, 147–48, 332
Twining, Nathan Farragut, 257
Tyler, John “His Accidency,” 119
U
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 298–99
deteriorated relations with US after Yalta, 126, 136