Truman (188 page)

“I’m just Mr. Truman”:
The New York Times,
January 21, 1953.

“Crowd at Harper’s Ferry”: HST Diary, January 20, 1953,
Off the Record,
288.

Part Six

18. Citizen Truman

“Been going over”: HST to Dean Acheson, April 18, 1953, HSTL.

“Who knows”: HST to EW, May 23, 1911,
Dear Bess,
36.

“I tried never to forget”: Miller,
Plain Speaking,
10.

“Rumors have it”: Independence
Examiner,
January 22, 1953.

Burrus had picked out house: Rufus Burrus, author’s interview.

exploit or “commercialize”: Associated Press, January 23, 1953.

a Miami real estate developer: Samuel Q. Goldman to HST, October 7, 1952, HSTL.

Toyota offer: HST to Paul Butler, March 3, 1959, HSTL.

“I still don’t feel”: Quoted in Ferrell,
Harry S. Truman and the Modern American Presidency,
153.

“where everybody seemed”: HST to Dean Acheson, February 7, 1953, HSTL.

“take the grips up”: Ray Scherer, author’s interview.

HST set off for Grandview: Tubby Diary, February 5, 1953; Independence
Examiner,
January 23, 1953.

That was good land: George Elsey, Oral History, HSTL; author’s interview.

“A cold wind whipping”: Tubby Diary, February 5, 1953.

“More than any other single”: Harry S. Truman,
Mr. Citizen,
25.

“He was utterly lost”: Osborne, “Happy Days for Harry,”
Life,
July 7, 1958.

“Diamond Head”: HST Diary, April 1953, in Ferrell, ed.,
Off the Record,
290.

“This morning at 7
A.M.
”: HST Diary, May 20, 1953, Ibid., 292.

“A shovel (automatic)”: Ibid.

“a real tryout”: Truman, 64.

“Everything went well”: HST to Vic H. Housholder, November 29, 1953,
Off the Record
, 298.

“I admitted the charge”: Ibid.

“There goes our incognito”: Truman, 65.

“You’re a sight for sore eyes”:
The New York Times,
June 22, 1953.

“like a dream”: Truman, 67.

“If you’d go again”:
The New York Times,
June 29, 1953.

“He was very nice”: St. Louis
Post-Dispatch,
July 6, 1953.

“The book is doing fine”: HST to Acheson, November 5, 1953, HSTL.

Paul Douglas observation: Quoted in Manchester,
The Glory and the Dream,
663.

“As for the United States”: July 27, 1953.

“The war is over”: Manchester, 663.

“Of course I’m happy”: HST to Bela Kornitzer, August 7, 1953, HSTL.

“I’m not a writer!”: Francis Heller, author’s interview.

Hillman and Noyes: Miller, 20.

Promising to “protect” HST: Heller, author’s interview.

recording machine: Heller, “The Writing of the Truman Memoirs,”
Presidential Studies Quarterly,
Winter 1983.

Royce highly disorganized: Heller, author’s interview.

HST annoyed: Heller, “The Writing of the Truman Memoirs.”

“lively” and “honest”: Elston,
The World of Time Inc.,
299.

“The cream of the White House”: Williams, “I Was Truman’s Ghost,”
Presidential Studies Quarterly,
Spring 1982.

“His approval or criticism”: Ibid.

HST begins his day: Erskine, “Truman in Retirement,”
Collier’s,
February 4, 1955.

“She had golden curls”:
Memoirs,
Vol. 1, 116.

“I always try to be”: HST Diary, July 8, 1953,
Off the Record,
293.

“After I’d passed”: Ibid.

“When we moved”: Memoirs, Vol. 1, 115.

“In the fall of 1892”: Ibid., 116.

How could father be called failure: Steinberg,
The Man from Missouri,
15.

“I have been working on”: HST to Acheson, January 28, 1954, HSTL.

“Our tribal instinct”: HST to Acheson, St. Patrick’s Day, 1954, HSTL.

“I used to say”: Osborne, “Happy Days for Harry.”

auction at the Armory: Independence
Examiner,
November 19, 1954.

“I’m worried about our world”: HST to Acheson, May 28, 1954, HSTL.

Truman stricken at
Call Me Madam
: Kansas City
Star,
June 19, 1954.

gall bladder operation:
The New York Times,
June 21, 1954.

“a hell of a time”: HST to Acheson, October 14, 1954, HSTL.

“When the papers tell us”: Acheson to HST, June 21, 1954, HSTL.

“When you get acquainted”: Ibid.

“It is touching”: Acheson to EWT, June 30, 1954, HSTL.

“going great guns”: HST to Acheson, January 11, 1955, HSTL.

“The material is more interesting”: Acheson to HST, June 21, 1955, HSTL.

“Page 114, line 3”: Ibid.

“She was his true”: Ken McCormick, author’s interview.

“We’d left home”: HST Diary, June 24, 1955,
Off the Record,
317.

“I never really appreciated”: Elston, 299.

“I expect to use, probably”: HST to Samuel S. Vaughan, October 22, 1955, HSTL.

“when we see him”: Samuel S. Vaughan, author’s interview.

“I had no idea”: Ibid.

“There, that one’s all slicked up”: Paul Horgan, author’s interview.

“I will autograph”: HST to Ken McCormick, July 1, 1955,
Off the Record,
319.

only as “my history”: Heller, author’s interview.

“Altogether, it well”:
The New York Times Book Review,
November 6, 1955.

called Margaret “skinny”: HST to Acheson, January 11, 1955, HSTL.

“When I hear”: HST to Acheson, January 25, 1955, HSTL.

“Margie has put one over”: HST to Acheson, March 26, 1956, HSTL.

“He strikes me as a very nice”: HST to Acheson, March 26, 1956, HSTL.

“Consolation is just what”: Acheson to HST, March 27, 1956, HSTL.

“rain, rain, rain”: HST Diary, June 21 (?), 1956,
Off the Record,
336.

“I was so afraid”: HST to Acheson, July 20, 1956, HSTL.

welcome in Rome:
Time
, May 28, 1956.

Henry Luce tour:
The New York Times,
May 20, 1956.

Paul Schultheiss: Independence
Examiner,
May 19, 1956.

“He is considered the greatest”: HST Diary, May 27–29, 1956,
Off the Record,
329.

“[Harry] Truman and his wife lunched”: Berenson,
Sunset and Twilight,
436.

“I found that it was somewhat”: HST Diary, June 4, 1956,
Off the Record,
332.

“squeezed” from the people: HST Diary, June 1956, ibid., 333.

“We crossed the Channel”: HST Diary, June 21 (?), 1956, ibid., 336.

“Never, never in my life”: Kansas City
Times,
June 20, 1956.

“Truest of allies”:
The New York Times,
June 21, 1956.

“Mr. Truman is very popular”: Kansas City
Times,
June 20, 1956.

“Every person born”: Ibid., June 21, 1956.

“Give ’em, hell, Harricum!”: Ibid.

“I think we in this room”:
The New York Times,
June 22, 1956.

“A good many of the difficulties”:
The Times
(London), June 22, 1956.

“And—not least of all”: Ibid.

visit to London: HST Diary, June 21 (?), 1956,
Off the Record,
336.

“England is prosperous”: Ibid., 337.

“It was all over too soon”: HST Diary, June 24, 1956, ibid., 338.

“He told me that he could do”: Ibid.

“Too bad he’s not campaigning”: Kansas City
Times,
June 29, 1956.

“Never [said the United Press]”: Independence
Examiner,
June 28, 1956.

“lacks the kind of fighting spirit”: McKeever, Adlai Stevenson, 376.

“Harry S. Truman had the Democratic”:
The New York Times,
August 12, 1956.

“When I arrived in Chicago”: HST to Acheson, August 29, 1956, HSTL.

“I have never wanted to pose”: HST to LBJ, December 11, 1956, LBJL.

“Dad sat there for a long time”: Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
621.

“I expect to be knee deep”: HST to Acheson, June 7, 1957, HSTL.

“Mr. Truman, who has abiding”:
The New York Times,
July 7, 1957.

labor union contributions: “Contributions of Labor Unions to Harry S. Truman Library, Inc.,” HSTL.

“Hey there, farmer!” HST telephone conversation with Sam Rayburn, July 15, 1958,
Off the Record
, 364.

net profit: Kirkendall, ed.,
The Harry S. Truman Encyclopedia,
129.

“Had it not been”: HST to John W. McCormack, January 10, 1957,
Off the Record,
346.

“As you know, we passed”: Ibid.

“I would be proud”: HST to Acheson, October 15, 1952, HSTL.

“Mr. Truman is deeply”: Acheson to Thomas Bergin, July 12, 1954, HSTL.

HST and Yale librarian: Chester Kerr, author’s interview.

“I have never had a better time”: HST to Acheson, April 16, 1958, HSTL.

“Yale still rings”: HST to Acheson, May 15, 1958, HSTL.

“He’s so damn happy”: Osborne, “Happy Days for Harry.”

getting a bigger kick: Phillips, “Truman at 75,”
The New York Times Magazine,
May 3, 1959.

“a man overflowing with life”: Ibid.

“She says I am just like”: St. Louis
Post-Dispatch,
May 10, 1959.

“You know this five day week”: HST to Acheson, April 10, 1968, HSTL.

“where he can sit”: Unidentified article, February 3, 1960, Vertical Files, HSTL.

“Mr. Truman was one of the most thoughtful”: Essay by Phillip C. Brooks, February 16, 1971, HSTL.

HST and Benton’s drinking: Kansas City
Star,
March 14, 1989.

“Well, what the hell”: Benton,
An Artist in America,
351.

“When a good politician”: Kansas City
Star,
April 27, 1959.

“I like being a nose buster”: HST to Acheson, April 20, 1955, HSTL.

“She and I spent”: HST to Acheson, February 19, 1959, HSTL.

“Do you suppose any President”: HST to Acheson, November 24, 1959, HSTL.

“It’s not the pope”: Miller Tapes, LBJL.

Kennedy’s notes: “Interview with Truman,” Dictated to Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln, 12:00 Noon, January 10, 1959, HSTL.

“Just tell him it was Harry Truman”: John Zentay, author’s interview.

“stub his toe”: Acheson to HST, April 14, 1960, HSTL.

“I hate to say this”: Ibid.

“without doubt”: Kansas City
Star,
May 13, 1960.

Acheson letter: Acheson to HST, June 27, 1960, HSTL.

“You’ll never know”: HST to Acheson, July 9, 1960, HSTL.

“I am going to Los Angeles”: HST to Agnes E. Meyer, June 25, 1960,
Off the Record,
386.

“Your coming here is considered”: Memorandum from Hillman and Noyes to HST, undated, Post-Presidential Files, HSTL.

“rigged—or you will be charged”: Ibid.

HST press conference:
The New York Times,
July 3, 1961.

“I listened to your press”: Acheson to HST, July 17, 1960, HSTL.

“He could not have been”: Notes from Conversation of United Press Newsman with JFK, undated, HSTL.

“blue as indigo”: HST to Acheson, August 26, 1960, unsent,
Off the Record,
390.

“Don’t get discouraged”: HST to Samuel Rosenman, August 22, 1960, HSTL.

“Now you are in for it”: Acheson to HST, August 12, 1960, HSTL.

“A nap after lunch”: “Memo on Mr. Truman’s Trips,” David Stowe Papers, HSTL.

“Although he moves into and through”: “Notes on Truman Trips During 1960 Presidential Campaign,” David Stowe Papers, HSTL.

“The campaign is ended”: HST to Acheson, November 21, 1960, HSTL.

“I’ve had a lot of fun”: HSTL research staff phone conversation with Paul Hume, December 21, 1979, HSTL.

“See, I told you”: Ibid.

“You know, she remembered”: Peggy Scott, author’s interview.

“You are making a contribution”: HST to Acheson, July 7, 1961,
Off the Record,
395.

“Needless to say”: Ibid.

“I had thought he was not”: Merle Miller, author’s interview.

“Don’t try to make a play actor”: Aurthur, “The Wit and Sass of Harry S. Truman,”
Esquire
, August 1971.

“I think there were people”: Miller, author’s interview.

inclined to exaggerate: Miller, 13.

“Goddamn an eyewitness”: Miller Tapes, LBJL.

“He had something like Bryan”: Ibid.

“I haven’t seen him”: Ibid.

“He was a good man”: Ibid.

“came back rich with detail”: Aurthur, “Harry Truman Chuckles Dryly,”
Esquire,
September 1971.

“Because if while I’m talking”: Ibid.

“My God, he’s not old”: Miller, author’s interview.

hated long hair: Byron Stewart, Jr., author’s interview; Miller, 456.

“People in Independence”: Miller Tapes, LBJL.

“There were times”: Miller, author’s interview.

HST appalled by Bay of Pigs: HST to Acheson, May 3, 1961, HSTL.

“This is a terrible weakness”: Acheson to HST, July 14, 1961, HSTL.

“Keep writing”: HST to Acheson, July 18, 1961, HSTL.

“You must remember”: HST to Acheson, September 25, 1961,
Off the Record,
397.

“If and when that happens”: HST to Acheson, December 20, 1962, HSTL.

“I just don’t like”: Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, 230.

“Matt Connelly has been”: HST to RFK, January 24, 1962, HSTL.

HST sends letter of gratitude: HST to JFK, December 3, 1962, HSTL.

“That old lady”: HST to Acheson, May 14, 1963,
Off the Record,
407.

“Having come so close”: Truman,
Bess W. Truman,
418.

HST put to bed at Blair House: Wilroy and Prinz,
Inside Blair House
, 117.

Secret Service protection: Robert Lockwood, author’s interview.

“Thank you very much”:
Remarks by Former President Harry S. Truman, Being the Occasion of Mr. Truman’s 80th Birthday,
May 8, 1964, 88th Congress, 2nd Sess., Sen. Doc. No. 88.