Truman (180 page)

He kept thinking: HST to EWT, July 20, 1945,
Dear Bess,
520.

“This is what would have happened”: Gilbert, 61.

Anne O’Hare McCormick column:
The New York Times,
July 18, 1945.

“Operated on this morning”:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. II, 1360.

“Promptly a few minutes”: HST Diary, July 17, 1945,
Off the Record,
53.

The truth was: Volkogonov,
Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy,
499.

As Stalin got out of the car: George Elsey, author’s interview.

“I got to my feet”: HST Diary, July 17, 1945,
Off the Record,
53.

“A little bit of a squirt”: Film Collection, HSTL.

Stalin sure Hitler was alive and in hiding: Byrnes,
Speaking Frankly,
68.

“as agreed at Yalta”:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. II, 1586.

“You could if you wanted to”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 541.

“and I felt hopeful”: Ibid., 342.

“The truth is he is a very likeable person”: Byrnes, 45.

“honest—but smart as hell”: HST Diary, July 17, 1945,
Off the Record,
53.

“He’ll be in the Jap War”: Ibid.

Time
magazine on Stalin:
Time,
February 5, 1945.

“There was little in Stalin’s demeanor”: Bohlen, 340.

“When one man dies”: Antonov-Ovseyenko,
The Time of Stalin: Portrait of Tyranny,
278.

“I was impressed”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 340–42.

“Since the Yalta Conference”:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. II, 643.

“Churchill said he should like”: Ibid, p. 54.

“So tomorrow we will have prepared”: Ibid., 61.

“Let’s divide it”: Ibid, p. 59.

“woolly and verbose”: Gilbert, 65.

HST took as act of disloyalty: HST to MT, July 29, 1945, HSTL.

“The boys say”: HST to EWT, July 18, 1945,
Dear Bess,
519.

“Churchill talks all the time”: HST to MET and MJT, July 18, 1945, HSTL.

“Doctor had just returned”:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. II, 1360–61.

HST appeared extremely pleased: Churchill, 554.

“at any rate they had something”: Ehrman,
Grand Strategy,
302–03.

“lull the Japanese”:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. II, 1588.

Stalin’s disclosure: Bohlen, 236.

The Generalissimo must visit: HST Diary, July 18, 1945,
Off the Record,
54.

“We cannot get away”:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. II, 96.

“I’m not going to stay”: HST Diary, July 18, 1945,
Off the Record,
54.

To Bess, earlier in the day: HST to EWT, July 18, 1945,
Dear Bess,
519.

“Believe Japs”: HST Diary, July 18, 1945,
Off the Record,
54.

“sick of the whole business”: HST to EWT, July 20, 1945,
Dear Bess,
520.

“A young Army captain”:
The New York Times,
August 14, 1945.

“The old man loves music”: HST to EWT, July 20, 1945,
Dear Bess,
520.

“He was direct, unpretentious”: Bradley and Blair,
A General’s Life,
444.

Eisenhower opposed use of the bomb: Eisenhower,
Crusade in Europe,
443.

Eisenhower would concede: Eisenhower,
Eisenhower at War, 1943–1945,
692.

truly believed that “Manhattan”: HST Diary, July 18, 1945,
Off the Record,
54.

“But all of us wanted”: Truman,
Bess W. Truman,
316.

“We are here today”: PP, HST, July 20, 1945, 195.

“of lasting inspiration”: Clay,
Decision in Germany,
44–45.

“General, there is nothing”: Bradley and Blair, 444–45.

“Uncle Joe looked”: HST Diary, July 20, 1945,
Off the Record,
55.

“immensely powerful document”: Stimson Diary, July 21, 1945.

“successful beyond the most optimistic”: Groves Memorandum,
Foreign Policy of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. II, 1362.

HST and Byrnes both looked pleased: Stimson Diary, July 21, 1945.

“It was apparent”: Murphy,
Diplomat Among Warriors,
273.

“We will not recognize”:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. II, 216.

the Russians had no intention: Leahy, 406.

“Started with caviar”: HST to MET and MJT, July 23, 1945, HSTL.

“He talked to me confidently”: HST to EWT, July 22, 1945,
Dear Bess,
521.

“Watch the President”: Moran,
Diaries,
303.

“There was no pretense”: Rigdon, with Derieux,
White House Sailor,
183–84.

“swagly.” “He never came on”: Floyd Boring, author’s interview.

“I thought it was nice”: Emilio Collado, Oral History, HSTL.

“I’m going to mass”: HST to EWT, July 22, 1945, HSTL.

“Although it was a target”: Stimson and Bundy,
On Active Service in Peace and War,
625.

“prosecute the war against Japan”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 391.

“alone with his work”: Stimson Diary, July 24, 1945.

July 23, 1945, cable:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. II, 1374.

“said that was just what he wanted”: Stimson Diary, July 24, 1945.

HST wrote of a consensus:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 415.

“I asked General Marshall”: HST to Professor F. Cate, undated letter, HSTL.

battle casualties during HST’s three months in office: Army Battle Casualties and Nonbattle Deaths in World War II, Department of the Army.

“We had only too abundant”: Charlton Ogburn, Jr., author’s interview.

“The basic policy of the present”: Combined Intelligence Committee Report, July 8, 1945, HSTL.

conscription of Japanese people:
The New York Times,
August 5, 1985.

“the spirit of mercy”: Bohlen, 231.

“At no time, from 1941 to 1945”: Stimson and Bundy, 613.

“I know FDR”: Daniels,
The Man of Independence,
281.

“I’ll say that we’ll end”: HST to EWT, July 18, 1945,
Dear Bess,
519.

“It is just the same as artillery”:
The New York Times,
May 3, 1959.

“We knew the Japanese were determined”: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. II, 198.

A petition drawn up: Wyden,
Day One,
180.

“Are not the men”: Compton, 242.

“It is hard to imagine”: Evan J. Young of Clinton Laboratories to M.D. Whittaker, undated, HSTL.

“What a question”: Compton, 247.

“The historic fact”: Churchill, 553.

“Truman made no decision”: George Elsey, author’s interview.

“The final decision”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 419.

HST later told Arthur Compton: Compton, 245.

“I casually mentioned to Stalin”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 416.

Stalin’s response offhand: Bohlen, 237.

“If he had had the slightest idea”: Churchill, 580.

“not grasped the importance”: Byrnes, 263.

“No one who played”: Ibid., 265.

“We have discovered”: HST Diary, July 25, 1945,
Off the Record,
55.

“The idea of using the bomb”: Harriman and Abel, 490.

“We are asking for the reorganization”:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. II, 360.

“If a government”: Ibid.

an iron fence had descended: Ibid., 362.

“I do not want to fight”:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. II, 313.

“The question is not ripe”: Ibid., 373.

Churchill full of foreboding: Moran, 306.

“What a pity”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 389.

old order passing: HST Diary, July 30, 1945,
Off the Record,
58.

It was too bad about Churchill: HST to MET and MJT, July 28, 1945, HSTL.

“enslaved as a race”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 392–93.

“kill it with silence”: Sherwin,
A World Destroyed,
236.

“Mr. Attlee is not so keen”: HST to MET and MJT, July 29, 1945, HSTL.

“We shall see”: HST to EWT, July 29, 1945,
Dear Bess,
522.

HST in an optimistic mood:
Forrestal Diaries,
79.

“The time schedule on Groves’ ”:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. II, 1374.

“Suggestion approved”: Declassified “Urgent—Top Secret Message,” Stimson to HST, July 30, 1945: HST’s handwritten message on back, HSTL.

“
Everything
seemed momentous”: Elsey, author’s interview.

“We have accomplished a very great deal”: HST to EWT, July 25, 1945,
Dear Bess,
521.

“Pray for me”: HST to EWT, July 29, 1945, ibid., 522.

“We are at an impasse”: HST Diary, July 30, 1945,
Off the Record,
58.

“It is a question of give and take”: PP, HST, August 9, 1945, 209.

foolishness in the extreme: Kennan,
Memoirs,
259, 290.

“Marshal Stalin I have accepted”: Murphy, 278.

Stalin broke in: Ibid., 279.

HST called Russians pigheaded: HST to MET and MJT, July 31, 1945, HSTL.

“police government”: HST Diary, July 26, 1945,
Off the Record,
57.

“They went away”: Donovan, 73.

“I like Stalin”: HST to EWT, July 29, 1945,
Dear Bess,
522.

“The President seemed to have been”: Ayers Diary, August 7, 1945, HSTL.

Stalin was a fine man: Wallace,
The Price of Vision,
490.

“Stalin is as near”: Daniels,
The Man of Independence,
23.

“an innocent idealist”: HST to Dean Acheson, March 15, 1957, unsent,
Off the Record,
348–49.

“for operational purposes”:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. II, 1321.

Discussion of Poland’s frontier: Ibid., 597–601.

Stalin on HST: Khrushchev,
Khrushchev Remembers,
221.

“That will save two days”: HST to MET and MJT, July 31, 1945, HSTL.

HST found the King “very pleasant”: HST Diary, August 5, 1945,
Off the Record,
59.

“Here was the greatest news story”: Smith,
Thank You, Mr. President,
256.

“completely rested”: Official log of the
Augusta,
HSTL.

“Results clear-cut”:
Memoirs,
Vol. 1, 421.

“This is the greatest thing”: Smith, 257.

“Big bomb dropped”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 421.

“Please keep your seats”:
The New York Times,
August 7, 1945.

“He was not actually laughing”: Smith, 258.

“We were all excited”: Elsey, author’s interview.

“Sixteen hours ago”: PP, HST, August 6, 1945, 196–200.

“But even if my legs”: Kansas City
Star,
July 28, 1965.

“Some of our scientists”: Leahy Diary, August 8, 1945, LC.

“ultimatum to end all ultimatums”:
The New York Times,
August 8, 1945.

Stimson and Marshall worried: Mosley,
Marshall. Hero for Our Times,
338.

“Additional bombs”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 420.

“For the second time”: L.A.
Times,
August 9, 1945.

Russell telegram to HST: Richard B. Russell to HST, undated, HSTL.

HST note to Russell: HST to Richard B. Russell, August 9, 1945, HSTL.

“I realize the tragic significance”: PP, HST, August 9, 1945, 212.

“Would it not be wondrous?”: Washington
Times,
August 6, 1985.

“Could we continue”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 428.

Stimson said the emperor: Ibid.

“we’d tell ’em how to keep him”: HST Diary, August 10, 1945,
Off the Record,
61.

“subject to the Supreme Commander”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 429.

“all those kids”: Wallace, 474.

“Nearly every crisis seems to be”: HST to MET and MJT, August 12, 1945, HSTL.

“it began like the days”: Ayers Diary, August 14, 1945, HSTL.

“might get a story”: Sue Gentry, author’s interview.

“I have received this afternoon”: PP, HST, August 14, 1945, 216.

“I felt deeply moved”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 437.

“This is a great day”:
The New York Times,
August 15, 1945.

“The only thing new”: Miller,
Plain Speaking,
69.

“Everyone had been going”: HST to MET and MJT, August 17, 1945,
Off the Record,
62.

Part Four

11. The Buck Stops Here

“Everybody wants something”: HST to MET and MJT, September 22, 1945, HSTL.

more prima donnas per square foot: HST to MET and MJT, October 23, 1945, HSTL.

“You can’t do anything worthwhile”: PP, HST, October 7, 1945, 380.

“cut out the foolishness”: Ibid., October 10, 1945, 394.

“We must go on”: Ibid., September 6, 1945, 291.

Wallace’s estimate of drop in GNP: Wallace,
The Price of Vision,
495.

“The Congress are balking”: HST to MET and MJT, October 23, 1945, HSTL.

“Anything
else,
Mr. President?”: PP, HST, September 18, 1945, 326.