Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941

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by Lynne Olson


  26 “The war came”: Perret, Days of Sadness, p. 203.

  27 “We are now”: Burns, Soldier of Freedom, p. 172.

  28 “were filled”: David Brinkley, Washington Goes to War, p. 91.

  29 “most of the men”: Perret, Days of Sadness, p. 255.

  30 “Ordinary people”: Ibid., p. 213.

  31 “the worst single”: Biddle, In Brief Authority, p. 213.

  32 “The test of”: Perret, Days of Sadness, p. 367.

  33 “No war”: Olson, Citizens of London, p. 229.

  34 “If the war”: Perret, Days of Sadness, p. 213.

  35 “It was a”: Ibid., p. 215.

  36 “when the Japanese”: “U.S. at War,” Army and Navy Journal, Nov. 2, 1945.

  CHAPTER 28: AFTERMATH

  1 “of more value”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 437.

  2 “I think he”: Murray Green interview with Wedemeyer, Green papers, AFA.

  3 “indicates a”: Davis, Hero, p. 416.

  4 “There cannot be”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 434.

  5 “Our son is”: Cole, Lindbergh, p. 213.

  6 “I am strongly”: Ickes to James Henle, Aug. 28, 1944, Ickes papers, LC.

  7 “this loyal friend”: Ickes to FDR, Stephen Early papers, FDRPL.

  8 “It would be”: Ibid.

  9 “wholeheartedly”: Ibid.

  10 “who has shown”: Murray Green unpublished manuscript, Green papers, AFA.

  11 “obstacles had been”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 437.

  12 “was angry”: Ibid.

  13 “purposely entered”: Cole, Lindbergh, p. 222.

  14 “Among most”: Roger Butterfield, “Lindbergh,” Life, Aug. 11, 1941.

  15 “absolutely certain”: Davis, Hero, p. 414.

  16 “I do not”: Sarles, Story of America First, p. 118.

  17 “Personally”: Charles Lindbergh, Wartime Journals, p. 452.

  18 “I don’t think”: Alden Whitman, “Life with Lindy,” New York Times Magazine, May 8, 1977.

  19 “Why does the”: Mosley, Lindbergh, p. 320.

  20 “Lindbergh!”: Lauren D. Lyman, “The Lindbergh I Knew,” Saturday Evening Post, April 4, 1953.

  21 “Everything was”: Herrmann, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, p. 284.

  22 “rendered valuable”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 155.

  23 “a letter to him”: Anne Lindbergh, War Within and Without, p. 447.

  24 “I am sad”: Ibid., pp. 449–50.

  25 “sun”: Joyce Milton, Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 474.

  26 “earth”: Ibid., p. 447.

  27 “a sun”: Ibid.

  28 “I do not”: Cole, Roosevelt and the Isolationists, p. 509.

  29 “his contribution”: Truman Smith, Berlin Alert, p. 42.

  30 “burst into roars”: Katharine Smith unpublished autobiography, Truman Smith papers, HI.

  31 “equal in influence”: Mark A. Stoler, “From Continentalism to Globalism: Gen. Stanley D. Embick, the Joint Strategic Survey Committee and the Military View of American National Policy During the Second World War,” Diplomatic History, July 1982.

  32 “suspicion of British”: Olson, Citizens of London, p. 152.

  33 “too much”: Ibid.

  34 “one of the most”: Wedemeyer obituary, New York Times, Dec. 20, 1989.

  35 “a vocal”: Life, Aug. 11, 1941.

  36 “stooge for Roosevelt”: Life, Nov. 3, 1941.

  37 “the Negro question”: Neal, Dark Horse, p. 275.

  38 “the desire to”: Ibid.

  39 “responsible participation”: Cole, Roosevelt and the Isolationists, p. 522.

  40 “If I could”: Peters, Five Days in Philadelphia, p. 195.

  41 “into deep mourning”: New York Times, Oct. 9, 1941.

  42 “His party”: Ibid.

  43 “tremendous courage”: Ibid.

  44 “As a Negro”: Ibid.

  45 “Wendell Willkie”: Ibid.

  46 “American Century”: Henry Luce, “American Century,” Life, Feb. 17, 1941.

  47 “the reshaping”: Isaacson and Thomas, Wise Men, p. 407.

  48 “Collectively, they”: Perret, Days of Sadness, p. 160.

  49 “Yes, I did”: Scott Stossel, Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2004), p. 58.

  50 “I wanted”: Ibid.

  51 “No”: Sarles, Story of America First, p. 219.

  52 “did not affect”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 463.

  53 “the vindictiveness”: Ibid.

  54 “President Kennedy”: Herrmann, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, p. 299.

  55 “We left with”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 517.

  56 “very constrained”: Mosley, Lindbergh, p. xii.

  57 “Even after”: Ibid.

  58 “we were both”: Anne Morrow Lindbergh obituary, New York Times, Feb. 8, 2001.

  59 “Like many”: Mosley, Lindbergh, pp. 378–79.

  60 “break up”: Anne Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn, pp. 204–5.

  61 “they have more”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 520.

  62 “I have seen”: “Lindbergh: The Way of a Hero,” Time, May 26, 1967.

  63 “If I had”: Alden Whitman, “Lindbergh Speaks Out,” New York Times Magazine, May 8, 1977.

  64 “give my true”: Anne Lindbergh, War Within and Without, p. 427.

  65 “artists, writers”: Reeve Lindbergh, Under a Wing, p. 57.

  66 “He liked to”: Ross, Last Hero, p. 335.

  67 “Charles only touches”: Mosley, Lindbergh, p. xvii.

  68 “terrible”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 480.

  69 “He must control”: Ibid.

  70 “a sense of”: Reeve Lindbergh, Under a Wing, p. 61.

  71 “I was very”: Eisenhower, Special People, p. 140.

  72 “how to remain”: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea (New York: Pantheon, 2005), p. 23.

  73 “the circus act”: Ibid., p. 20.

  74 “We work easily”: Ibid., p. 92.

  75 “makes it very”: Anne Lindbergh, Against Wind and Tide, p. 144.

  76 “outgrown”: Ibid.

  77 “rather sad”: Ibid, p. 155.

  78 “Where are you?”: Ibid., p. 173.

  79 “agonies of mind”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 497.

  80 “the Lindbergh marriage”: Ibid., pp. 547–48.

  81 “Since I know”: Anne Lindbergh, Against Wind and Tide, pp. 54–55.

  82 “Dana pulled me”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 497.

  83 “badly mated”: Ibid., p. 509.

  84 “abandoned and put upon”: Anne Lindbergh, Against Wind and Tide, p. 169.

  85 “was running”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 510.

  86 “She knew”: Reeve Lindbergh, Forward from Here, p. 210.

  87 “We were always”: “Lindbergh’s Double Life,” Deutsche Welle, June 20, 2005.

  88 “the stern arbiter”: Reeve Lindbergh, Forward from Here, p. 201.

  89 “One of my”: Ibid., p. 204.

  90 “These children”: Ibid., p. 203.

  91 “Being in my”: Ibid., p. 217.

  92 “He just didn’t”: Ibid., pp. 217–18.

  93 “every intimate”: Ibid., p. 218.

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