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Authors: David McCullough

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Truman (182 page)

“If we go in”: Matt Connelly Papers, HSTL.

most important of his career: Ayers Diary, March 8, 1947, HSTL.

“I believe it must be”: Clifford,
Counsel to the President,
136.

“too much rhetoric”: Bohlen, 261.

“If you take his advice”: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. II, 163.

“I want no hedging”:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 105.

Truman Doctrine speech: PP, HST, March 12, 1947, 176–80.

“Well, I told my wife”:
Time,
March 24, 1947.

“A vague global policy”: Quoted in Steel, 438–39.

a “universal pattern”: Hartmann,
Truman and the 80th Congress,
61.

would “of course” act: Acheson, 225.

“I guess the do-gooders”:
Newsweek,
March 24, 1947.

“If Mr. L is a communist”: HST, draft unreleased statement, March 1947,
Off the Record,
113.

“no part of a communist”: Vandenberg, ed.,
The Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg,
355.

“the most important thing”: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. II, 166.

“[He is] very strongly anti-FBI”: Clark Clifford Papers, HSTL.

“The long tenure”: Martin,
My First Fifty Years in Politics,
163.

“I am not worried”: PP, HST, April 3, 1947, 190.

“It was a political problem”: Bernstein,
Loyalties,
195–98.

“The Republicans are now taking”: Frank McNaughton Papers, March 28, 1948, HSTL.

“If I can prevent”: HST to EW, September 27, 1947,
Dear Bess,
550.

“Yes, it was terrible”: Joseph Rauh quoted in Bernstein, 196.

“I think it’s one of the proudest”: Clifford, author’s interview.

“There was much to be done”:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 104.

“You don’t sit down”: Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.

Kennan leaves the room: Kennan,
Memoirs,
328, note.

meeting with newspaper editors: PP, HST, April 7, 1947, 207–10.

“He was…an extremely thoughtful”: Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.

“When he went to lunch”: Quoted in Heller,
The Truman White House,
46.

“Lots of times I would be”: Clifford, author’s interview.

“He spent virtually every waking”: Quoted in Heller, 119.

HST would like to have been history teacher: Ayers Diary, April 26, 1947, HSTL.

Clifford insists HST not be FDR: Markel, “Truman As the Crucial Third Year Opens.”

“In many ways President Truman”: Quoted in Heller, 120.

“It just has to be said”: Elsey, author’s interview.

“There is nothing in life”: Quoted in Farrar,
Reluctant Servant,
195.

“priceless gift of vitality”: Acheson, 730.

the nation “again has leaders”: Hardeman and Bacon,
Rayburn: A Biography,
328.

Marshall’s return of April 26, 1947:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 112; Bohlen, 262–63; Kennan, 325.

The Soviets, it seemed: Marshall quoted in Pogue, 196.

“The patient is sinking”: Ibid., 200.

“Avoid trivia”: Kennan, 326.

Clayton memo: Pogue, 206.

Marshall speech: Mosley, 404–05.

“We grabbed the lifeline”: Quoted in Pogue, 217.

“play it straight”: Bohlen, 264.

part played by Acheson: Clark Clifford address, American Ditchley Foundation, April 5, 1984.

“anything that is sent up”: Clifford, author’s interview.

Halle’s comments on staff: Halle, 115–16.

“And you and I have both lived”: Quoted in Miller, 264.

“While he was responding”: Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
383.

“If she wants to be a warbler”: HST to MET and MJT, January 30, 1947, HSTL.

“She’s one nice girl”: HST to MET and MJT, February 19, 1947, HSTL.

Mrs. Thomas J. Strickler: Kansas City
Star,
April 18, 1946.

“Margaret went to New York”: HST to MET and MJT, January 30, 1947, HSTL. ’

“Here’s a little dough”: HST to MT, February 28, 1947, Truman,
Letters from Father,
89.

Margaret Truman’s radio debut: Kansas City
Star,
March 7, 8, 9, and 17, 1947.

“Perhaps, sheer naivete”: Truman,
Souvenir,
162.

“Wish I could go along”: HST to MT, May 14, 1947, Truman,
Letters from Father,
92.

“Whenever she wakes up”:
Time,
June 2, 1947.

“When I say all Americans”: PP, HST, June 29, 1947, 311–13.

“I did not believe”: White,
A Man Called White,
348.

“Almost without exception”: White,
How Far the Promised Land,
74.

he meant “every word of it”: White,
A Man Called White,
348.

“But I believe what I say”: HST to MJT, June 28, 1947, HSTL.

reminiscing to Bess: HST to EWT, July 26, 1947,
Dear Bess,
549.

“Goodbye, Harry”: HST Diary, November 24, 1952,
Off the Record,
275.

“Well, now she won’t have to suffer”: Steinberg,
The Man from Missouri,
295.

“Everything had changed”: Truman,
Souvenir,
174.

“I couldn’t hold a press conference”: PP, HST, August 5, 1948, 365.

“Someday you’ll be an orphan”: HST to MT, August 1, 1947, Truman,
Letters from Father,
96.

“You should call your mamma”: HST to MT, December 3, 1947, Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
404–05.

“I called up Daddy”: Truman,
Souvenir,
191.

a hit as a vaudeville team: Daniels, “The Lady from Independence,”
McCall’s,
April 1949.

She would laugh so hard: Parks and Leighton,
My Thirty Years Backstage at the White House,
28.

“She’s the only lady I know”: Randall Jessee quoted in the Dallas
Morning News,
February 9, 1976.

“Mrs. Truman came with great apologies”: Marquis Childs, author’s interview.

“the white gloves type”: Reathel Odum, author’s interview.

“They both had the gift”: Nixon,
In the Arena,
231.

“one of the finest women”: Robert Lovett, Oral History, HSTL.

HST’s reliance on Bess: Quoted in Means, “What Three Presidents Say About Their Wives,”
Good Housekeeping,
August 1963.

Bess laughs at pretensions: Daniels, “The Lady from Independence.”

“And then…the minute the doors”: Lindy Boggs, author’s interview.

“Propriety was a much stronger influence”: Alice Acheson, author’s interview.

“Just keep on smiling”: Truman,
Bess W. Truman,
265.

“She didn’t want to discuss”: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.

Bess Truman questionnaire:
Time,
November 10, 1947.

“She seems to think Harry”: Asbury, “Meet Harry’s Boss, Bess,”
Collier’s,
February 2, 1949.

Bess interested in Monroe administration: Daniels, “The Lady from Independence.”

“Mrs, Truman was no fussier”: West, 83.

“might as well have been in Independence”: J. B. West, author’s interview.

“And he
listened
to her”: Ibid.

Bess’s emotional separation: Truman,
Bess W. Truman,
272.

“Suppose Miss Lizzie”: HST to EN, June 22, 1949,
Off the Record,
157.

“Marshall and Lovett”: HST to EWT, September 23, 1947,
Dear Bess,
549–50.

“Yesterday was one of the most hectic”: HST to EW, September 30, 1947, ibid., 550–51.

“Twenty-nine years!”: HST to EWT, June 28, 1948,
Dear Bess,
554.

Greta Kempton portrait: Greta Kempton, author’s interview; Kempton letter to the author, June 20, 1984; Kempton, “Painting the Truman Family,”
Missouri Historical ’ Review,
April 1973; “An Interview with Greta Kempton,”
Whistlestop,
Vol. 15, no. 2, 1987.

a handwritten note from Churchill: Gilbert,
Winston Churchill. Never Despair,
351.

“In all the history of the world”: HST speech draft, undelivered, April 1948,
Off the Record, 133.

13. The Heat in the Kitchen

Eisenhower again declined: Donovan,
Conflict and Crisis,
338.

“Mr. Truman was a realist”: Quoted in Phillips,
The Truman Presidency,
197, note.

“give everything”: Ayers Diary, January 19, 1948, HSTL.

“Aside from the impossible”: HST to MET and MJT, November 14, 1947, HSTL.

“President Truman did not want to run”: Quoted in Donovan, 338.

“blessed with a tough hide”: Phillips, 140.

“The greatest ambition”: Quoted in Ross,
The Loneliest Campaign,
9.

“get into the fight”:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 171–72.

“What I wanted to do personally”: Ibid., 174.

speech before Congress: PP, HST, January 7, 1948, 1.

message to Congress: Ibid., February 2, 1948, 121.

press conference on civil rights: Ibid., February 5, 1948.

black Democrats at rear table:
Time,
March 1, 1948.

“But my very stomach turned”: Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
429.

Privately could speak of “niggers”: Rex Scouten, author’s interview; Miller,
Plain Speaking, 195.

“Harry is no more”: Jonathan Daniels interview with Mary Jane Truman, October 2, 1949, HSTL.

“The main difficulty”: HST to Ernest W. Roberts, August 18, 1948, in Ferrell, ed.,
Off the Record,
146.

murder of four blacks:
To Secure These Rights: Report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights,
22.

“The wonderful, wonderful development”: Clark Clifford, author’s interview.

“strike for new high ground”: Quoted in Ross, 19.

Clifford on golf course: David Acheson, author’s interview.

Clifford decided not to tell HST: Clifford, author’s interview.

“This is, as you know”: James Rowe, Jr., to William Sand, July 8, 1971.

“In the Roosevelt and Truman years”: George Elsey, author’s interview.

“The Politics of 1948”: Memorandum by James H. Rowe, Jr., Miscellaneous Historical Documents, HSTL.

“We were telling the President”: James H. Rowe, Jr., author’s interview.

HST kept memo in bottom drawer: Ibid.

“To a politician of Harry Truman’s”: Washington
Post,
undated, Vertical Files, HSTL.

Hill and Sparkman call for HST’s resignation: Ayers Diary, March 23, 1948, HSTL.

instant disapproval: Washington
Star,
May 25, 1965.

“Back Porch Harry”:
Time,
January 26, 1948.

Jefferson himself: PP, HST, April 15, 1948, 217–18.

Washington
Star:
Donovan, 351.

“The awnings you will remember”: HST to MJT, January 30, 1948, HSTL.

“Had to be renewed”: HST to George Rothwell Brown, January 20, 1948, HSTL.

danger of second floor falling: Ayers Diary, March 6, 1948, HSTL.

Ross “terrifically upset”: Ibid., February 6, 1948, HSTL.

“You can guard yourself: Ibid., December 30, 1947, HSTL.

his most difficult dilemma: Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
416.

“humanly possible”: Chicago
Tribune,
April 15, 1948.

“could not be allowed to continue”:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 138.

“definitely and preeminently”: Harrison quoted in Eban,
An Autobiography,
59.

“would they be welcomed”: Ibid.

Niles sensed HST’s sympathy with Jews: Steinberg,
The Man from Missouri,
304.

“I’m a man of no importance”: Steinberg, “Mr. Truman’s Mystery Man,”
Saturday Evening Post,
December 24, 1949.

“just politics”: Clifford, author’s interview.

“And his own reading”: Weisberger, interview with Clark Clifford,
American Heritage,
December 28, 1976.

justice not oil: HST quoted in Wallace,
The Price of Vision,
607.

no wish to send American troops: PP, HST, August 6, 1945, 228.

“What I am trying to do”: HST to Joseph H. Ball, November 24, 1945, unsent, HSTL.

“The action of some of our American Zionists”: Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
420.

he wished more people: Donovan, 319

“I am not a New Yorker”: Quoted in Wallace, 605

“Terror and Silver”: HST Memorandum to David Niles, May 13, 1947, HSTL.

“Jesus Christ couldn’t please them”: Quoted in Wallace, 607.

“I’m so tired”: HST to MJT, February 11, 1948, HSTL.

not a great many Arab constituents: Donovan, 322.

Forrestal thought less of HST:
Forrestal Diaries,
309, 363.

“Kaplan sells shirts”: Quoted in Donovan, 317.

“And when the day came”: Washington
Star and Daily News,
December 31, 1972.

“carelessly pro-Zionist”: Jenkins,
Truman,
116.

Kennan on Palestine: Pogue,
George C. Marshall: Statesman.
356.

Henderson worried about consequences:
The New York Times,
March 26, 1986.

“Some White House men”: Daniels,
The Man of Independence,
317.

“Look here, Loy”: Loy Henderson, Oral History, HSTL.

“conflicting objectives”: Rusk,
As I Saw It,
147–48.

“I know how Marshall feels”: Quoted in Daniels, 318.

“We went for it”: Clark Clifford interview with Jonathan Daniels, October 26, 1949.

Eddie Jacobson account: Washington
Post,
May 6, 1973.

“he [Truman] and he alone”: Ibid.

Jewish delegation swept up:
The New York Times,
November 30, 1947.

“There were Jews in tears”: Eban, 99.

“a triumphant vindication”:
The New York Times,
November 30, 1947.

turning point in history: New York
Herald-Tribune,
November 30, 1947.

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