Authors: David McCullough
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Presidents & Heads of State, #Political, #Historical
“If anyone in the government”: HST to EWT, June 22, 1945,
Dear Bess,
523.
“The pressure here”: HST to MET and MJT, October 13, 1945, HSTL.
“We can’t stand another global war”: PP, HST, October 7, 1945, 381.
“did everything…mouth of a cannon”: Quoted in Phillips,
The Truman Presidency,
129.
“in the doldrums”: Ayers Diary, October 19, 1945, HSTL.
call for universal military training: PP, HST, October 23, 1945, 404, 413.
HST shows new presidential flag: Ibid., October 25, 1945, 415–417.
“It was disintegration”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 509.
“Tiny lines had grown”: Gunther,
Procession,
260.
Encounter with Oppenheimer: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. II, 118.
“See what a son-of-a-bitch”: Quoted in Wallace, 519.
Marshall ends call abruptly: Miller,
Plain Speaking,
252.
“paid much less attention”: Samuel Rosenman, Oral History, HSTL.
“Mr. President, you
should
know”: Wallace, 530.
“wild accidents”: Quoted in Lerner,
Actions and Passions,
219.
“one of the most hazardous”:
Time,
December 8, 1947.
“Well I’m here in the White House”: HST to EWT, December 28, 1945,
Dear Bess,
523–24.
“able and conniving”: HST Diary, July 7, 1945, in Ferrell, ed,
Off the Record,
49.
“I told him I did not like”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 550.
“a horse’s ass”: Clifford quoted in Jonathan Daniels interview notes, HSTL.
Acheson impressions of HST: Acheson,
Present at the Creation,
136.
HST longhand letter for Byrnes: HST to James F. Byrnes, January 5, 1946, unsent,
Off the Record,
79–80
“1946 is our year of decision”: PP, HST, January 3, 1946, 1.
“This is a disaster”: Quoted in Goulden,
The Best Years 1945–1950,
113.
“I personally think there is”: PP, HST, January 24, 1946, 92.
The “blunt truth”:
Time,
January 14, 1946.
Chicago
Tribune
cartoon: Reprinted in
Time,
February 4, 1946.
“at best, undistinguished”: MacKaye, “Things Are Different in the White House,”
Saturday Evening Post,
April 20, 1946.
People were “befuddled”: HST to MET and MJT, January 23, 1946, HSTL.
“An oil man”: Ayers Diary, January 18, 1946, HSTL.
Ickes resignation:
The New York Times,
February 14, 1946.
a chronic “resigner”: Quoted in Miller, 226.
“There would have been no rest”: HST to MET and MJT, February 7, 1946, HSTL.
American Mercury
article: Crawford, “Everyman in the White House,” February 1946.
“appears to consider it necessary”: Leahy Diary, February 21, 1946, LC.
Stalin statement on war: Donovan, 187.
Justice Douglas reaction: Ibid.
“I will call you Harry”: Ross Diary, March 7, 1946, HSTL.
“Harry, what does a sequence count?”: Quoted in Daniels,
The Man of Independence,
279.
“He took a boy’s delight”: Ross Diary, March 7, 1946, HSTL.
Churchill wish to be born American: Gilbert,
Winston Churchill. Never Despair,
146.
“You stop drinking”: Ibid., 147.
“do nothing but good”: Ibid.
HST and Churchill on eagle’s head: Ross Diary, March 9, 1946, HSTL.
“Iron curtain” speech: Quoted in Gilbert, 198.
HST denies knowing what Churchill would say: Wallace, 558.
HST pleads “no comment”: PP, HST, March 8, 1946, 145.
“the Long Telegram”: Donovan, 187–88.
“here and now”: Matt Connelly Papers, HSTL.
“He was in his study”: Ross Diary, March 23, 1946, HSTL.
Mary Jane’s reaction to HST press conference: Mary Jane Truman, Oral History, HSTL.
492
Life
article: Busch, “A Year of Truman,” April 8, 1946.
“Here is to be seen”:
The New York Times Magazine,
April 7, 1946.
494
Time
article: May 6, 1946.
“I can hold a Cabinet meeting”: PP, HST, May 2, 1946, 227.
“Big money has too much”: HST to MET and MJT, January 23, 1946, HSTL.
“I’m going to give you the gun”: Quoted in Daniels, 325.
“We have a society”:
The New York Times,
May 22, 1946.
“That’s the way he is”: Ibid., May 26, 1946.
a “complicated”: J. C. Truman, author’s interview.
“This was the fifth day”: Ayers Diary, May 23, 1946, HSTL.
HST meeting with veterans: Washington
Star,
May 24, 1946.
“There were poignant scenes”:
Newsweek,
June 3, 1946.
Telegrams flooding the White House: White House Correspondence File, HSTL.
“At home those of us”: HST speech draft, undelivered, Clifford Papers, HSTL.
“In the manner of Lincoln”: Phillips, 115.
“I’d never been in the White House”: Clark Clifford, author’s interview.
“Alone of all the Truman entourage”: Quoted in Allen and Shannon,
The Truman Merry-Go-Round,
61.
“The President is intelligent”: Clifford, with Holbrooke,
Counsel to the President,
274.
“I come before the American people”: PP, HST, May 24, 1946, 274.
“He said they had verbally agreed”: Clifford interview, Daniels notes, HSTL.
“For the past two days”: PP, HST, May 25, 1946, 277.
“Spotlights ablaze”:
New Republic,
June 3, 1946.
“he could be tough”:
The New York Times,
May 26, 1946.
“Draft men who strike”:
New Republic,
June 3, 1946.
“I was the servant”: Film Collection, HSTL.
“Nothing about the Wallace affair”: George Elsey, author’s interview.
“If Mr. Slaughter is right”: PP, HST, July 18, 1946, 350.
HST’s health: Ross Diary, July 20, 1946, HSTL.
“Had the most awful day”: HST to MET and MJT, July 31, 1946, HSTL.
“She’s on the way out”: HST to EWT, August 9, 1946,
Dear Bess,
530.
“Be good and be tough”: MT [Margaret Truman] to HST, June 14, 1946, Truman,
Letters from Father,
142.
“I still have a number of bills”: HST to EWT, August 10, 1946,
Dear Bess,
530.
“It’s just wonderful”: MacDonald, “President Truman’s Yacht,”
Naval History,
Winter 1990.
“See, he had no airs”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“He always plays a close hand”: Ted Marks, Oral History, HSTL.
“The
Williamsburg
”: MacDonald, “President Truman’s Yacht.”
“This is a paradise”: HST to MT, August 23, 1946, Truman,
Letters from Father,
69.
“did all sorts of antics”: Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
366.
“The furniture was taking headers”: HST to EWT, September 2, 1946,
Dear Bess,
534.
“Night before last”: HST to EWT, September 9, 1946, ibid., 535.
disliked living there: HST to EWT, September 3, 1946, ibid., 534.
“You better lock your door”: Truman,
Letters from Father,
144.
“I’m in the middle”: HST to EWT, September 10, 1946,
Dear Bess,
536.
HST press conference: PP, HST, September 12, 1946, 426–29.
“If the President”: Ross Diary, September 21, 1946, HSTL.
Wallace account: Wallace, 612–13.
tried to skim through it: HST Diary, September 17, 1946,
Off the Record,
94.
Reston column:
The New York Times,
September 13, 1946.
“The criticism continued to mount”: Ross Diary, September 21, 1946, HSTL.
“I’m still having Henry Wallace trouble”: HST to MET and MJT, September 18, 1946, HSTL.
“Henry told me”: HST to EWT, September 20, 1946,
Dear Bess,
539.
“Everything’s lovely”: Quoted in Acheson, 192.
“Henry is the most peculiar fellow”: HST to MET and MJT, September 20, 1946, HSTL.
“He wants to disband”: Quoted in Donovan, 227.
Byrnes telegram: Byrnes,
Speaking Frankly,
241–42.
“so nice about it”: HST to EWT, September 21, 1946,
Dear Bess,
539.
“I would rather be
anything
”: HST to MET and MJT, September 20, 1946, HSTL.
“No man in his right mind”: HST to MT, September 9, 1946, Truman,
Letters from Father,
71.
“a liar, double-crosser”: HST to MT, September 17, 1946, ibid., 75.
“Sept. 26, 1918”: HST Diary, September 26, 1946,
Off the Record,
98.
Ickes called him “stupid”:
Time,
September 30, 1946.
32 percent poll results: Gallup,
The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion
1935–1971, 604.
“Nothing on meat”: PP, HST, October 10, 1946, 447.
Truman continues electronic surveillance: Gentry,
J. Edgar Hoover,
344.
“The shrill pitch of abuse”:
Time,
October 28, 1946.
he alone was formally dressed: Ibid.
“Here was a man”: Kilgore quoted in Steinberg,
The Man from Missouri,
288.
“never seemed to have a problem”: Fields,
My 21 Years in the White House,
187.
“We went to the Waldorf: HST to MT, October 26; 1946, Truman,
Letters from Father,
81.
Jefferson City stop:
Time,
November 11, 1946.
“Probably no President”: Phillips, 161.
“This is a serious course”: PP, HST, March 12, 1947, 179.
Lippmann on HST: Steel,
Walter Lippmann and the American Century,
455.
“My dear Harry”: WC to HST, May 12, 1947, quoted in Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill. Never Despair,
326.
Acheson alone…was waiting: Acheson,
Present at the Creation,
200.
“The captain with the mighty heart”: Ibid., dedication page.
“so fast they were falling all over”: Clark Clifford, author’s interview.
Lilienthal in rain: Lilienthal
Journals,
Vol. I, 54.
“the kind of grim gaiety”: Ibid., 118.
“Oh, God, it was the chance”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“now a free man”: Quoted in
Time,
April 7, 1947.
“I’m doing as I damn please”: HST to EWT, November 18, 1946,
Dear Bess,
540.
“How can there be immunity”: Goldman,
The Crucial Decade—And After,
29.
“He told me that he would”: HST Diary, January 1, 1947, in Ferrell, ed,
Off the Record,
107.
“Bob is not austere”:
Time,
January 20, 1947.
HST walks to Union Station: Ayers Diary, January 6, 1947, HSTL.
“your appointment as Secretary of State”: Mosley,
Marshall: Hero for Our Times,
390.
“I thought that the continuing harping”: Cray,
General of the Army,
17.
Marshall did not possess the intellectual brilliance: Halle,
The Cold War as History, 113.
“It was a striking and commanding force”: Acheson, 140–41.
exit office backwards: Paul Horgan, author’s interview.
“He never made any speeches”: Miller,
Plain Speaking,
251.
“Sometimes he would sit”:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 112.
“He was a man you could count on”: Quoted in Miller, 250.
“On the one hand”: Pogue,
George C. Marshall.
Statesman, 141–42.
“He gave a sense of purpose”: Bohlen,
Witness to History,
259.
“Gentlemen, don’t fight”: Quoted in Pogue, 148.
Acheson found working with the general: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. II, 159.
“The more I see and talk”: HST appointment sheet, February 18, 1947,
Off the Record,
109.
“Marshall is a tower”: HST Diary, May 7, 1948, ibid., 134.
“I am surely lucky”: HST appointment sheet, February 18, 1947, ibid., 109.
“He no longer moans”: Gaddis,
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War,
1941–1947, 347.
“His eye is clear”: Quoted in
Time,
January 27, 1947.
48 percent poll rating:
Time,
February 10, 1947.
“They brought back all the pageantry”: West, with Kotz,
Upstairs at the White House,
91.
“The papers say today”: HST to MET and MJT, February 9, 1947,
Off the Record,
108.
“I was somewhat nervous”: HST to MET and MJT, February 13, 1947, HSTL.
“despite all the denying”: West, 91.
Lilienthal nomination hearings: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. II, 141–42.
“far from anger or temper”: Ibid., 141.
“I believe in”: Ibid., Appendix B, 646–48.
HST supports Lilienthal: Ibid., 144.
Taft opposes nomination:
Time,
February 24, 1947.
“Courage: What is it?”: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. II, 160.
“Now Mary, don’t you work too hard”: HST to MET and MJT, February 27, 1947, HSTL.
Lincoln McVeigh reported rumors:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 99.
Greece a “ripe plum”: Ibid.
“little hope of independent survival”: Quoted in Donovan,
Conflict and Crisis,
277.
“the only one in Government”: Gaddis, 346, note.
“It is not alarmist”: Quoted in Pogue, 164.
“The Soviet Union was playing”: Acheson, 219.
Vandenberg told the President: Ibid.
“and I expressed my emphatic”:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 103.
Mexico City visit:
Newsweek,
March 17, 1947.
Clifford memo: appears in full in Krock,
Memoirs,
Appendix, 419–82.
“The impact of having it all”: George Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.