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Authors: David McCullough

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Truman (176 page)

“Yes, I spoiled him”; Kansas City
Star
April 18, 1945.

“She liked Mamma Truman”: Truman, 109.

Once when she offered food: J.C. Truman, author’s interview.

189
The Capture of the Clever One
: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.

“I want her to do everything”: HST to EWT, July 17, 1929,
Dear Bess
, 338.

“The car was washed” Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.

“Straight, absolutely straight”: Ibid.

“He read all the weather maps”: Ibid.

“How does Harry put up”: Mary Shaw Branton, author’s interview.

“It was
very
hard”: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.

picked Number 369: Sue Gentry in Independence
Examiner
, April 25, 1979.

Harpie Club: Daniels, 152.

“He liked his walk”: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.

the town directory:
Independence City Directory
, 1934.

“Just think of all those
wasted
years”: HST to EWT, July 22, 1930,
Dear Bess
, 339.

“Have you practiced your music?”: HST to EWT and MT, July 10, 1932, ibid., 347.

“You may yet be the first lady”: Daniel, 117.

over lunch with…Eric Sevareid: Sevareid, “A Truly Great Man,”
McCall’s
, March 1973.

“He loved politics”: Marks, Oral History, HSTL.

hadn’t he been a late bloomer: Noland, Oral History, HSTL.

“There, he struck his gait”: Ibid.

6. The Senator from Pendergast

“Friends don’t count”:
Autobiography
, 74.

Francis M. Wilson: Kansas City
Star
, February 2, 1982.

“It was my big day”:
Autobiography
, 71.

Excelsior Springs seclusion: Ibid.

“It will be much better”: HST to Robert Ragland, January 17, 1923, HSTL.

“long as the Big Boss”: HST to EWT, April 14, 1933,
Dear Bess
, 348.

“understood political situations”:
Autobiography
, 83.

Big Boss began letting votes go: Dorsett,
The Pendergast Machine
, 106–07.

“I had a fine talk”: HST to EWT, April 23, 1933,
Dear Bess
, 350.

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”: Kansas City
Star
, July 4, 1976.

McElroy would later claim: Art Brisbane, “Kansas City Needs an Honest Boss Tom,” Kansas City
Star
, May 3, 1982.

Pendergast would listen attentively: Kansas City
Times
, April 21, 1986.

“Why shouldn’t they be?”: St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
, September 12, 1937.

“The machine did small favors”: Dorothy Davis Johnson, author’s interview.

“the most efficient city government”: Reddig,
Tom’s Town
, 128.

“kind of gentleness”: Monsignor Arthur Tighe, author’s interview.

“See…there just wasn’t any law”: John Doohan, author’s interview.

“The clubs stayed open all night”: Ibid.

Kidnapping of McElroy’s daughter: Reddig, 255–56.

“Now Jim”:
Congressional Record
, February 20, 1934.

“Union Station massacre”: Reddig, 257-59.

new county courthouse: Independence
Examiner
, September 7, 1933.

“During the six and one half years”: Ibid.

“During these years of strenuous service”: Ibid.

“maneuvered out”: Quoted in
Memoirs
, Vol. I, 141.

Truman meeting with Jim Pendergast and Aylward: James Aylward, Oral History, HSTL; correspondence in the collection of Joe and Catherine Pruett.

Pendergast offer to Joe Shannon: Daniels,
The Man of Independence
, 167.

“A very pleasant sort of fellow”: Quoted in Helm,
Harry Truman
, 32–33.

“Tomorrow, today, rather”: “Pickwick Papers,” HSTL.

“It was 104 yesterday”: Letter from Jim Pendergast to Kathleen Pendergast, postmarked July 4, 1934, Pruett Collection.

opening Truman rally: Kansas City
Star
, July 7, 1934.

“a congressman’s congressman”: Quoted in Childs,
I Write from Washington
, 96–97.

“wheels-with-wheels”: Ibid.

“It will be remembered that”:
News-Press
, July 6, 1934, Fred Canfil Scrapbooks, HSTL.

Johnny Lazia killing: Kansas City
Journal-Post
, July 10, 1934.

“tell him I love him”: Ibid.

“There were at least ten thousand”: Jim Pendergast letter to Kathleen Pendergast, undated, Pruett Collection.

“It seems my old friend”: Kansas City
Star,
July 11, 1934.

a huge picnic in Clay County:
News-Press,
July 16, 1934, Fred Canfil Scrapbooks, HSTL.

“For this bellhop of Pendergast’s”: Kansas City
Star,
July 29, 1934.

“Judge Truman is unobtrusive”: St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
(undated), Fred Canfil Scrapbooks, HSTL.

“mendacity and imbecility”: El Dorado Springs (Missouri)
Gazette,
July 23, 1934.

“Why, Senator Clark is”: United Press, July 30, 1934, Fred Canfil Scrapbooks, HSTL.

Since 1930, more than eighteen thousand:
Missouri Historical Review,
Vol. 29, July 1935.

“such as to make any human”: Kansas City
Star,
July 31, 1934.

“Fact is, I like roads”: Hersey,
Aspects of the Presidency,
37.

Canfil would check out room: HST to EWT, October 25, 1942,
Dear Bess,
491.

scrapbook of the campaign: Fred Canfil Scrapbooks, HSTL.

“why, if Harry ever goes”: Kansas City
Times,
August 1, 1934.

On the day of the primary:
Autobiography,
67.

“without significance”: St. Louis
Post-Dispatch,
August 8, 1934.

a “push-over”:
Autobiography,
68.

“skinny and all one color”: Mary Shaw Branton, author’s interview.

Fred Canfil descriptions: FOIPA No. 297,745, FBI.

“green as grass”: Quoted in Helm, 7.

Hatch and Schwellenbach friendly: Ibid., 70.

“He took the trouble”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 144.

“Harry, don’t start out with”: Ibid.

the Senator from Pendergast: Miller,
Plain Speaking,
158.

“Here was a guy”: Steinberg,
The Man from Missouri.
125.

“doglike devotion”: Quoted in Helm, 13.

“It was quite an event”: Steinberg, 130.

“He came to the Senate”: St. Louis
Post-Dispatch,
April 15, 1945.

“He was a better man”: Ibid.

his own passkey: Kansas City
Journal-Post
(undated), Messall Scrapbooks, 1933–41, HSTL.

“By the time his colleagues”: Ibid.

“If you will send us”: HST to L.T. Slayton, February 5, 1935, HSTL.

“political monster”:
Congressional Record,
February 30, 1935, 2352–59.

Thereafter Long refused to speak:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 146.

“He sits in the back row”: Kansas City
Journal-Post
(undated), Messall Scrapbooks, 1933–41, HSTL.

“He speaks rarely”: Ibid.

“I’m going to be better informed”: HST to EWT, December 11, 1935,
Dear Bess,
382.

“I’ll take all the dinners”: HST to EW, December 6, 1937, ibid., 408.

He burned them all:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 157.

“I was a New Dealer from the start”: Ibid., 149.

“As the old political saying goes”: Quoted in Barkley,
That Reminds Me,
155.

“I liked Harry”: Claude Pepper, author’s interview.

“a hot wave”: HST to EWT, August 15, 1935,
Dear Bess,
377.

read Southall Freeman: HST to EWT, July 9, 1955, ibid., 369.

“No one has done more”: HST to EWT, August 19, 1935, ibid., 378.

“a grand big house”: HST to EWT, June 29, 1935, ibid., 366.

“Found a rather nice place”: HST to EWT, July 17, 1935, ibid., 372.

bus fare and bathing suit: HST to EWT, July 3, 1935, ibid., 367.

“big enough for two”: HST to EWT, December 5, 1937, ibid., 407.

“I am hoping to make”: HST to EWT, June 28, 1935, ibid., 365.

“Pendergast was as pleased”: HST to EWT, July 29, 1935, ibid., 374.

“as pleased to see me”: HST to EWT, August 11, 1935, ibid., 376.

“Pendergast and the very blond”: Childs, 111.

“Confidentially, I had a fine visit”: Lloyd C. Stark to HST, March 22, 1935, HSTL.

Pendergast at Wilson’s funeral: Kansas City
Star
archives.

“He won’t do”: Jonathan Daniels interview notes, November 12, 1949, HSTL; Daniels,
The Man of Independence,
181.

“The old man had better judgment”: Quoted in Daniels, 181.

“the most grateful man”:
Autobiography,
73.

“Kind of hard on Bennett”: HST to EWT, June 22, 1935,
Dear Bess,
365.

“And while I heard”: Quoted in Helm, 10.

“The vast expenditures”: Childs, 110.

Pendergast ill: Kansas City
Times,
January 27, 1945.

“We all found Truman”: Quoted in Louchheim, ed.,
The Making of the New Deal,
243.

“But he showed no signs”: Ibid.

“When the Senator from Missouri”: Quoted in Steinberg, 127.

“He was always going out of his way”: Ibid., 126.

“Never in all the years”: Mildred Dryden, Oral History, HSTL.

liked Harry Truman “instinctively”: Barkley, 155.

“H. is worn out”: EWT to EN, undated, HSTL.

“tell” Harry how to vote: Helm, 51.

“Jim Aylward phoned me”: Ibid.

By going to Pendergast: Daniels, 180.

tired of being “pushed around”: Helm, 53.

“The pressure on me”: HST quoted in Barkley, 155–56.

“I always admired him”: Ibid.

“I just can’t stand it”: HST to EWT, January 5, 1935,
Dear Bess,
391.

he “played hooky”: HST to EWT, February 11, 1937, ibid., 397.

“This so-called committee work”: HST to EWT, November 7, 1937, ibid., 403.

“Not once did I ever see him”: Quoted in Helm, 11.

“a sense of continually being tired”: U.S. Army Medical Records, September 13, 1937, HSTL.

“They are charming people”: HST to Marvin Mclntyre, October 11, 1936, FDRL.

“That son-of-a-bitch”: Steinberg, 167.

“A couple of kids”: HST to EWT, October 29, 1937,
Dear Bess,
402.

“Today is my father’s birthday”: HST to EWT, December 5, 1937, ibid., 407.

Brandeis teas: Daniels, 185–86.

“slightly awesome institution”: Childs, 43.

not accustomed to meeting such people: Daniels, 186.

Brandeis had spent more time: HST to EWT, December 13, 1937,
Dear Bess,
409.

“It was a rather exclusive”: HST to EWT, December 13, 1937, ibid., 100.

“certainly in agreement on the dangers”: HST quoted in Miller, 151.

December 20, 1937, speech:
Congressional Record,
December 20, 1937, 2482–95.

“It probably will catalogue me”: HST to EWT, December 12, 1937,
Dear Bess,
409.

The speech was front-page news:
The New York Times,
December 21, 1937.

Max Lowenthal comments about pressure: Daniels, 185.

“an innate part of his personality”: Gosnell,
Truman’s Crises,
129.

“We must not close our eyes”: Messall Scrapbooks, HSTL.

Pendergast betting: Reddig, 278; Kansas City
Star,
December 27, 1974.

“Don’t ever take any money”: Quoted in Kansas City
Star,
March 1, 1984.

Truman speech on February 15, 1938:
Congressional Record,
February 15, 1938, 1962–64.

“The manner in which the juries”: John Oliver, author’s interview.

“in view of my speech”: Kansas City
Star,
September 15, 1978.

“They figure they’ll need”: HST to EWT, November 17, 1938,
Dear Bess,
412.

“If it is true”: Reddig, 303–04.

“Please help Sam Finklestein”: T.J. Pendergast to HST, undated, HSTL.

“I am sure he had”: Helm, 47.

“I am very sorry”: St. Louis
Post-Dispatch,
undated, Messall Scrapbooks, HSTL.

“The terrible things”: HST to EWT, October 1, 1939, HSTL.

“He was broke”: Edgar Hinde, Oral History, HSTL.

“Looks like everybody got rich”: HST to EWT, October 27, 1939,
Dear Bess,
426.

“I believe if I did know him”: Kansas City
Star,
May 22, 1939.

“At no time”: Quoted in Daniels, 196.

“He has earned the high estimate”: St. Louis
Post-Dispatch,
April 12, 1939.

“If Governor Stark runs”: Associated Press (undated), Messall Scrapbooks, HSTL.

“I do not think”: HST to EWT, August 8, 1939,
Dear Bess,
418.

“Tell them to go to hell”: Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
130.

“the wise boys”: Quoted in Drew Pearson column (undated), Messall Scrapbooks, HSTL.

Washington premiere: HST to EWT, October 18, 1939,
Dear Bess,
426.

mortgage on the farm: Daniels, 192.

“mighty blue”: HST to EWT, September 22, 1939,
Dear Bess,
419.

“I am of the opinion”: Miscamble, “The Evolution of an Internationalist,”
Australian Journal of Politics and History,
August 1977.

“You know it makes some of us”: HST to EW, November 11, 1939,
Dear Bess,
428.

“a pleasure trip”: HST to EWT, November 16, 1939, ibid., 430.

“a regular fellow”: HST to EWT, November 22, 1939, ibid., 431.

“This, you know”: HST to EWT, December 1, 1939, ibid., 432.

“I guess I’m not built”: HST to EWT, December 1, 1939, ibid.

“Harry, I don’t think”: Quoted in Daniels, 198.

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