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“We cannot go back”:
New York Times,
March 1, 1936.

“one of the most aggressive campaigns”: Ibid., June 12, 1936.

“economic royalists”: Acceptance speech, June 27, 1936.

“Of course we spent money”: Address, Oct. 12, 1936.

“Nine crazy years”: Address, Oct. 31, 1936.

“Betting commissioners recalled yesterday”:
New York Times,
Nov. 1, 1936.

“I am sending you”: Farley, 1:324–25.

“As Maine goes”: Ibid., 1:326.

CHAPTER
33

“The President seemed very happy”: Ickes, 1:703–05.

“If they can take it, I can”:
New York Times,
Jan. 21, 1937.

“We have always known”: Inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1937.

“Sometimes I say things…I have ever known”: Lash, 363, 378, 424.

“The cost of the thing is shocking”: Ickes, 1:152.

“Mr. Baruch has given me ‘carte blanche’”: Cook, 2:141.

“Over in the school shop”:
New York Times,
May 5, 1935.

“No hope beyond twenty-four hours…on his own now”: Rollins,
Roosevelt and Howe,
443–48.

“By assuring the employees”: Statement, July 5, 1935.

“I’m not going down in history as Bloody Murphy!”: Sidney Fine,
Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936–1937
(1969), 294.

“What law are they breaking?”: Perkins, 321–22.

“Have you anything to say”: Press conference, Jan. 22, 1937.

“I shall order the men”: D. Kennedy, 313.

“I know you have been through a lot”: Perkins, 323–34.

“another milestone…make automobiles”:
New York Times,
Feb. 12, 1937.

“I think I can put it this way”: Press conference, June 29, 1937.

“Though not as yet”:
Nation,
July 31, 1937.

“It ill behooves one who has supped”:
New York Times,
Sept. 4, 1937.

“All in…no discussion”: Press conference, Feb. 5, 1937.

“disguise of sophistry…he will get it”: Excerpts of editorial opinion in
New York Times,
Feb. 6, 1937.

“shortcut to dictatorship…of the country”: Ibid., Feb. 6, 11, and 15, 1937; D. Kennedy, 331–32.

“frightful…of the government”:
New York Times,
Feb. 14, 1937.

“I am reminded”: Fireside Chat, March 9, 1937.

51 percent…45 percent:
Washington Post,
May 24 and June 20, 1937.

“the greatest constitutional somersault”: William E. Leuchtenburg,
The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt
(1995), 176.

CHAPTER
34

“Up with your spears!”:
New York Times,
Oct. 4, 1935.

“I have seen war”: Address, Aug. 14, 1936.

“At 2
A.M.
today”:
New York Times,
April 28, 1937.

“the unspeakable crime of war”: Ibid., May 10, 1937.

“Here fascism presents to the world”: Ibid., May 7, 1937.

“The present reign of terror”: Address, Oct. 5, 1937.

“Japan will not easily be beaten…will be redoubled”: Editorial summary in
New York Times,
Oct. 6, 1937.

“Do you care to amplify”: Press conference, Oct. 6, 1937.

“It is a terrible thing”: Rosenman, 167.

CHAPTER
35

“You have made yourself the trustee”: From Keynes, Dec. 30, 1933, printed in
New York Times,
Dec. 31, 1933.

“Right in the midst of good business”:
New York Times,
Oct. 19, 1937.

Uncertainty rules the tax situation”: Robert Higgs, “Regime Uncertainty: Why the Great Depression Lasted So Long and Why Prosperity Resumed after the War,”
Independent Review,
Spring 1997, 576.

“Practically no business group”: Berle, 171.

“We are headed right”: Morgenthau, 1:391–96.

“Businessmen have a different set of delusions”: D. E. Moggridge,
Maynard Keynes: An Economist’s Biography
(1992), 607.

“Most business men”: Fireside Chat, Oct. 12, 1937.

“Capital is essential”: Annual message, Jan. 3, 1938.

“The President told them”: Morgenthau, 1:385.

“an hysteria resembling a mob…I don’t”: Ibid., 386–95.

“something terrible”: Ibid., 398–400.

“strike…the cat steal it”:
Washington Post,
Dec. 30, 1937.

“the sixty families”:
New York Times,
Dec. 31, 1938.

“As I see it…heavyweight championship”: Morgenthau, 1:414–15.

“They just stampeded him”: Ibid., 421.

“definite additions to the purchasing power”: Fireside Chat, April 14, 1938.

“Please tell the Japanese Ambassador”: Memorandum, Dec. 13, 1937.

“This was the lamest of lame excuses”: Hull, 1:562.

“profound apology”:
FRUS: Japan, 1931–1941,
1:521.

“wild, runaway, half-insane men”: Dallek, 154.

“jingoism”:
New York Times,
Dec. 14, 1937.

“After all”: Morgenthau, 1:489.

“Within ninety days”: Leuchtenburg, 261–62.

“That, my friends, is not right”: Address, May 27, 1938.

“There will be many clashes”: Fireside Chat, June 24, 1938.

“The Boss has stirred up…you’re foolish”: Farley, 2:122, 137.

“of enormous help to me”: Address, July 9, 1938.

“He is, and I hope”: Address, Aug. 11, 1938.

“It’s time to stop feeling sorry”: Farley, 2:121.

CHAPTER
36

“There were only two people”: Lash, 505.

“Just before Christmas”: Ibid., 504.

“This was pure spite”: Sherwood, 90.

“And remember…assurances and hopes”: Ibid., 93–97.

“We’re here to implement a policy…I couldn’t take it”: Lash, 506.

“cripple any President”: To William Bankhead, Jan. 6, 1938.

“international gangsters…serious concern”: Dallek, 157; Berle, 168–69; Hull, 1:575.

“You cannot get news”: Press conference, Sept. 6, 1938.

“force, militarism, and territorial aggression”: Memo by Hull, July 7, 1938,
Peace and War,
424.

“great tragedy of today”: Hull, 1:588.

“immediate danger”: Message, Sept. 26, 1938.

“It does not rest with the German Government”: from Hitler, Sept. 27, 1938.

“The world asks of us”: To Hitler, Sept. 27, 1938.

“The justified and understandable anger…German economic life”:
New York Times,
Nov. 11–13, 1938.

“deeply shocked”: Press conference, Nov. 15, 1938.

“I don’t know…very difficult problem”: Press conference, Nov. 18, 1938.

“A war which threatened to envelop”: Address, Jan. 4, 1939.

“remotely intimate”: Message, Jan. 12, 1939.

“No one here has any illusions”: Berle, 201.

“Acts of wanton lawlessness”: State Department statement, March 17, 1939.

“Mr. President”: Press conference, March 17, 1939.

“madder and madder”: Ickes, 2:597.

“Hundreds of millions”: To Hitler and Mussolini, April 14, 1939.

“My friends of Warm Springs”: Remarks, April 9, 1939.

“Mr. Roosevelt!”
New York Times,
April 29, 1939.

“Joe Robinson tells me”: Walter White,
A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White
(1948), 169–70.

“I’m sorry about the bill…obsession that he has”: Lash, 518.

“I pointed out”: Ickes, 54.

“The question is”: “My Day,” Feb. 27, 1939, in
My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936–1962,
ed. David Emblidge (2001), 34.

“There are those”:
New York Times,
April 10, 1939.

“She sang with her eyes closed”:
Washington Post,
April 10, 1939.

“Thanks in large measure to you”: Lash, 527.

CHAPTER
37

“Roosevelt wants to fight…eighteen bills”: Dallek, 187.

“It was a desperate effort…all there is to it”: Ibid., 192; Hull, 1:649–50.

“Today, August 7, 1939”: Message, Aug. 7, 1939.

“I think it is very important”: Press conference, Aug. 8, 1939.

“Don’t, for Heaven’s sake”: Ibid.

“It is still too early to judge the implications”:
New York Times,
Aug. 22, 1939.

“I am again addressing”: To Hitler, Aug. 24, 1939.

“It is an eerie experience”: J. Kennedy, 371.

“It is a terrible thing…their way homeward”: Ibid., 365, 371.

“High Government officials”: From Kennedy, Sept. 10, 1939, J. Kennedy, 372–74.

“With earnest best wishes”: From Churchill, Oct. 8, 1933.

“It is because you and I”: To Churchill, Sept. 11, 1939.

“I hope you will at all times”: To Chamberlain, Sept. 11, 1939, FDRL.

“The only method”: Telephone call from Churchill, Oct. 5, 1939.

“I do not believe at this particular time”: Press conference, Sept. 1, 1939.

“hoped against hope”: Fireside Chat, Sept. 3, 1939.

“I hope and believe”: To Chamberlain, Sept. 11, 1939, FDRL.

“They are, in my opinion”: Message to Congress, Sept. 21, 1939.

“In other words”:
New York Times,
Oct. 22, 1939.

“a bond of race and not of political ideology”: Ibid., Oct. 14, 1939.

“I certainly do not want to impose”: Ibid., Oct. 24, 1939.

“You can’t lick a steamroller”: Ibid., Oct. 11, 1939.

“I am very glad”: Ibid., Nov. 4, 1939.

The repeal of the arms embargo”: From Chamberlain, Nov. 8, 1939, FDRL.

“Los Angeles aircraft manufacturers”:
New York Times,
Nov. 3, 1939.

CHAPTER
38

“Hitler is taller”: From Welles, March 2, 1940, FDRL.

“This visit is solely for the purpose”: Press conference, Feb. 9, 1940.

“the greatest interest in the highest government circles”: Kirk to Hull, Feb. 14, 1940,
FRUS: 1940,
1:8.

“The Minister received me at the door”: From Welles, March 2, 1940, FDRL.

“My car drove into a rectangular court”: Ibid.

“The scene has darkened swiftly”: From Churchill, May 15, 1940.

“Ever so many thanks”: To Churchill, Feb. 1, 1940.

“Although I have changed my office”: From Churchill, May 15, 1940.

“I am sure it is unnecessary”: To Churchill, May 16, 1940.

“Our intention is whatever happens”: From Churchill, May 20, 1940.

“Even though large tracts of Europe”: Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(1992), 656.

“The power of aviation”:
New York Times,
May 20, 1940.

“further extension of the area of hostilities”: To Mussolini, April 29, 1940,
Peace and War.

“Italy has never concerned itself”: From Mussolini, May 2, 1940,
Peace and War.

“a realist”: To Mussolini, May 14, 1940,
Peace and War.

“There are two fundamental motives”: From Mussolini, May 18, 1940,
Peace and War.

“On this tenth day of June”: Address, June 10, 1940.

“We all listened to you last night”: From Churchill, June 11, 1940.

“For six days and six nights”: From Reynaud, June 10, 1940,
Peace and War.

“Our army is now cut into several parts”: From Reynaud, June 14, 1940,
Peace and War.

CHAPTER
39

“He needs this peace”: From Churchill, June 14, 1940.

“This moment is supremely critical”: From Churchill, June 15, 1940.

“I am doing everything possible”: To Douglas, June 7, 1940.

“These are black days for the human race”: Hull address, June 20, 1940,
Peace and War.

“political miracle”:
New York Times,
June 30, 1940.

“If a whore repented”: Jonathan Daniels,
The Time between the Wars: Armistice to Pearl Harbor
(1966), 309.

“What I am against is power”:
New York Times,
June 30, 1940.

“What’s the Boss going to do?”: Farley, 2:237.

“They did not support Roosevelt”: Sherwood, 177–78.

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