“a new tenseness”: Forrestal Diaries, 387.
“lifted me right out”: Smith, Lucius D. Clay, 466–67.
to move atomic bombs: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. I, 302.
“The Jewish pressure”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 160.
Niles grew so emotional: Letter from Joseph Alsop to Martin Sommers, June 1, 1948, LC.
either “give in”: Ibid.
“So I called him ‘Cham’ ”: Film Collection, HSTL.
They had met secretly: Memoirs, Vol. II, 161.
“You can bank on us”: Daniels, The Man of Independence, 318.
“I was extremely happy”: Weizmann, Trial and Error, 459.
Kennan’s paper: Donovan, 370.
“playing with fire”: Forrestal Diaries, 373.
“the political situation”: Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone, 127.
no “bending”: Pogue, 361.
“On five occasions”: Clark Clifford interview with Jonathan Daniels, October 26, 1949.
“pro-Arab”: Loy Henderson, Oral History, HSTL.
“I pointed out that the views”: Ibid.
“Oh, hell, I’m leaving”: Ibid.
Frank Goldman call to Jacobson: Kansas City Times, May 13, 1965.
Connelly warned Jacobson: Adler, Roots in a Moving Stream, 210.
“always had a brother’s interest”: Kansas City Times, May 13, 1965.
HST suddenly tense: Ibid.
“In all the years of our friendship”: “Two Presidents and a Haberdasher—1948,” American Jewish Archives, April 1968.
“disrespectful and mean”: Ibid.
“Harry, all your life”: Ibid.
HST reaction to Jacobson: Ibid.
Jacobson has drink: Kansas City Times, May 13, 1965.
“It is the most serious situation”: HST to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 16, 1948, Off the Record, 126.
“It was better to do that”: Ayers Diary, March 16, 1948, HSTL.
Joint Session speech: PP, HST, March 17, 1948, 182–86.
“And when he left my office”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 161.
HST and Weizmann reached “understanding”: Ibid.
“A land of milk and honey”: The New York Times, March 21, 1948.
“whimsical and cynical action”: Letter from Tucson Jewish Community Council, undated, White House Correspondence File, HSTL.
“vacillating”: Letter from Democratic Council, undated, Whittier, California, White House Correspondence File, HSTL.
“This change can mean”: Judge P. Tinley to HST, March 25, 1948, HSTL.
“Oh, how could you stoop”: Samuel A. Sloan to HST, March 19, 1948, HSTL.
“Black Friday”: “Two Presidents and a Haberdasher—1948.”
“There wasn’t one”: Ibid.
Weizmann certain what HST had meant: Adler, 211.
Jacobson must not forget: “Two Presidents and a Haberdasher—1948.”
“This morning I find”: HST Diary, March 20, 1948, Off the Record, 127.
“the striped pants boys”: HST to MJT, March 21, 1948, HSTL.
“Truman was in his office”: Clark Clifford interview with Jonathan Daniels, October 26, 1949; Daniels interview notes, HSTL.
“The President’s statement”: Ayers Diary, March 20, 1948, HSTL.
“the wisest course”: The News York Times, March 21, 1948.
“This gets us nowhere”: Quoted in Steinberg, The Man from Missouri, 307.
“Send final draft”: Foreign Relations of the United States. Vol. V: The Far East, South Asia and Africa, 645.
“striped pants conspirators”: HST to MJT, March 21, 1948, HSTL.
“prejudice the character”: PP, HST, March 25, 1948, 190, 192.
Eleanor Roosevelt resignation: Lash, 130.
“The choice for our people”: Weizmann, 474.
“very strongly”: “Two Presidents and a Haberdasher—1948.”
“the President looked worn”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 320.
“It is a scream”: HST to MJT, April 8, 1948, HSTL.
Gallup Poll: Gallup, The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 1935–71, 727.
“When he [Truman] vetoed”: The New York Times, April 4, 1948.
“You will be addressing all of us”: Weisberger interview with Clifford.
“I want you to know”: George C. Marshall to HST, May 8, 1948, HSTL.
Marshall speech: As reported in Frank McNaughton Papers, December 18, 1948, HSTL.
May 12, 1948, meeting: Clay, General of the Army, 658, 661.
“As I talked”: Address by Clark Clifford, American Ditchley Foundation, April, 5, 1984; Clark Clifford, author’s interview.
“This is just straight politics”: Ibid.
“General, he is here”: Ibid.
“I had really prepared!”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“everything this country should represent”: Ibid.
“Behold, I have set the land”: Clifford, letter to the author.
“No matter what the State Department”: Clark Clifford interview with Jonathan Daniels, October 26, 1949, HSTL.
“the sharpest rebuke ever”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“the great one of the age”: HST appointment sheet, February 18, 1947, Off the Record, 109.
“That brought the meeting”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“righteous goddamn Baptist”: Clark Clifford interview with Jonathan Daniels, October 26, 1949, HSTL.
“didn’t know his ass”: Ibid.
“That was rough as a cob”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“I will cross that bridge”: PP, HST, May 13, 1948, 253.
“Marshall was the greatest asset”: Clifford, author’s interview.
Lovett would have to persuade: Ibid.
Marshall called HST: Ibid.
“That is all we need”: Ibid.
“This is very unusual”: Ibid.
name of new country left blank: Ibid.
reaction of American delegation: The New York Times, May 16, 1948.
“temporary, unofficial ambassador”: Adler, 212.
“There is a great deal to be said”: Washington Star, May 16, 1948.
“The difficulty with many career”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 165.
“God put you in your mother’s womb”: Quoted in Steinberg, 308.
“In my opinion”: Henderson, Oral History, HSTL.
Marshall never spoke to Clifford again: Pogue, 377.
“I told him that it was”: Isaacson and Thomas, The Wise Men, 433,
Crestline, Ohio: PP, HST, June 4, 1948, 284.
Omaha stop: Ayers Diary, June 7, 1948, HSTL.
“I don’t give a damn”: Edward McKim, Oral History, HSTL.
“President Truman was at his best”: Omaha Morning World-Herald, June 8, 1948.
“walled-in”: Krock, Memoirs, 242.
“It almost overwhelms me”: PP, HST, June 6, 1948, 288.
“My goodness!”: Ibid., June 8, 1948, 303.
Butte, Montana, stop: Idaho Daily Statesman, June 9, 1948.
“I am sorry I had gone to bed”: New York Sun, June 9, 1948.
“down to Berkeley”: Donovan, 400.
“They told me at a little town”: HST to MJT, June 8, 1948, HSTL.
Carey Airport gaffe: Montana Standard, June 9, 1948.
“I have been in politics”: PP, HST, June 8, 1948, 301.
a many-versed song: Kansas City Star, March 23, 1969.
“a spectacle of himself”: Steinberg, 312.
Eugene, Oregon, stop: PP, HST, June 11, 1948, 329.
“about two acres of people”: Ibid., June 14, 1948, 348.
“You know, this Congress”: Ibid., June 10, 1948, 314.
“blackguarding Congress”: Redding, Inside the Democratic Party, 178.
telegrams to mayors: Ibid.
Berkeley-commencement address: PP, HST, June 12, 1948, 336–40,
“Our policy will continue”: Ibid., 340.
“they clung to the roofs”: Los Ange
les Times, June 15, 1948.
HST jabbed his forefinger: Donovan, 401.
June 18 return to Washington: Time, June 28, 1948.
a “gone goose”: Ibid.
Dewey acceptance speech: Time, July 5, 1948.
“We stay in Berlin”: Forrestal Diaries, 454–55.
“We stay in Berlin”: Pogue, 301.
“we were nose to nose”: Bradley and Blair, A General’s Life, 481.
“had no direct role whatever”: George Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.
“A ball game or two”: HST Diary, June 18, 1948, Off the Record, 140.
“I am not a quitter”: Krock, 241.
“You have the choice”: Ickes quoted in Donovan, 389.
decided it was time for Eisenhower: Hartmann, Truman and the 80th Congress, 186.
Eisenhower did not want nomination: Steinberg, 309–10.
Jimmy Roosevelt wired: Goulden, The Best Years, 1945–1950, 381.
“a hard and possibly losing fight”: Ross, 113.
“I am simply aghast”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 378–79.
“All right, let him go”: Ayers Diary, July 6, 1948, HSTL.
“double-crossers all”: HST Diary, July 6, 1948, Off the Record, 141.
“I don’t think he would be a candidate”: HST to James W. Gerard, April 27, 1948, HSTL.
Krock story: Krock, Memoirs, 242.
Pepper proposing Eisenhower draft: Newsweek, July 19, 1948.
“I wanted to tell you”: Krock, 243.
“In a telephone conference”: Ibid.
“final and complete”: Newsweek, July 19, 1948.
“Truman, Harry Truman”: Goldman, The Crucial Decade—and After, 83.
“no time for politics as usual”: Ross, 115.
“None of us”: Phillips, 218.
’We got the wrong rigs”: The New York Times, July 12, 1948.
“You could cut the gloom”: Barkley, That Reminds Me, 200.
Douglas wished to stay on Court: HST Diary, July 12, 1948, Off the Record, 141.
“I stuck my neck”: Ayers Diary, July 13, 1948, HSTL.
“But if memory does not betray”: Redding, 188–89.
If Barkley was what convention wanted: Newsweek, July 26, 1948.
Barkley gone to bed: HST Diary, July 13, 1948, Off the Record, 142.
Barkley never told HST he wanted to be VP: Ross, 119.
“I don’t want it passed”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 12.
“Talking about the vice-presidency”: Ayers Diary, July 13, 1948, HSTL.
“A Negro alternate from St. Louis”: HST Diary, July 13, 1948, Off the Record, 142.
“sellout” to states’ rights: Ross, 121.
“We were inherently stronger”: Douglas, In the Fullness of Time, 137.
“Young man, that’s just what”: Goulden, 385.
“There are those who say”: Ross, 125.
southern “walkout” would destroy: Hardeman and Bacon, Rayburn: A Biography,337.
as “crackpots”: HST Diary, July 14, 1948, Off the Record, 143.
“No privacy sure enough”: Ibid.
“Hard to hear”: Ibid.
“a very agreeable visit”: Barkley, 203.
“an interesting and instructive evening”: HST Diary, July 14, 1948, Off the Record, 143.
“hot, horrible night”: Tom Evans, Oral History, HSTL.
“They did what you do”: Elsey, author’s interview.
“Harry Truman’s a goddamn liar”: Hardeman and Bacon, 338.
“Senator Barkley and I”: PP, HST, July 15, 1948, 406.
“Our task is to fill”: Smith, 500,
“Now it is time for us”: PP, HST, July 15, 1948, 406.
“Everybody knows that I recommended”: Ibid., 408.
“He walked out there”: Clifford, author’s interview.
“They sensed”: Lerner, Actions and Passions, 233.
“Of course, it was politics”: Daniels, 356.
“devilishly astute”: Martin, My First Fifty Years in Politics, 178.
“Arrived in Washington”: HST Diary, July 15, 1948, Off the Record, 144.
“to reduce us to the status”: Ross, 131.
“the segregation of the races”: Ibid.
“but Truman really means it”: Steinberg, 315.
“on the basis of interest”: Ross, 158.
“We stand against the kings”: Time, August 2, 1948.
Forrestal and atomic bomb: HST to EWT, July 23, 1948, Dear Bess, 555.
“It is hot and humid”: HST Diary, July 19, 1948, Off the Record, 145.
“We’ll stay in Berlin”: Ibid.
“If we wished to remain”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 124.
a “very big operation”: Davidson, The Berlin Blockade, 105.
“We were proud of our Air Force”: Quoted in Tusa, The Berlin Airlift, 167.
“But every expert knows”: Quoted in Davidson, 125.
“My muttonhead Secretary”: HST to EWT, July 23, 1948, Dear Bess, 555.
“There is considerable political”: Memorandum by James H. Rowe, Jr., Miscellaneous Historical Documents, HSTL.
“I am going through a terrible”: HST to WC, July 10, 1948, Truman, Letters from Father, 110.
“The President greeted us rather solemnly”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 388–89.
“This is no time”: Ibid., 391.
“If what worried the President”: Ibid.
Truman held Forrestal: Forrestal Diaries, 461.
seemed lately unable to “take hold”: Lilienthal, Journals, Vol. II, 386.
“I went down the river”: HST to MJT, July 26, 1948, HSTL.
“No, we’re not going to give”: Quoted in Donovan, 411.
“They sure are in a stew”: HST to EWT, July 23, 1948, Dear Bess, 66.
“For a number of years”: Phillips, 369.
“a ‘red herring’ “: PP, HST, August 5, 1948, 433.
“Entirely”: Ibid., August 12, 1948, 438.
floor of Margaret’s room: HST to MJT, August 10, 1948, HSTL.
“Can you imagine?”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 329.
“Margaret’s sitting room”: HST to MJT, August 10, 1948, HSTL.
“old Abe’s bed”: Ibid.
14. Fighting Chance
“It will be the greatest”: HST to MJT, October 5, 1948, HSTL.
“There were no deep-hid schemes”: Ross, “How Truman Did It,” Collier’s, December 24, 1948.
“It’s going to be tough”: Ibid.
“I have a terrible feeling”: HST Diary, September 13, 1948, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record, 149.
“Every grade crossing”: The New Yorker, October 9, 1948.
“I’m going to give ’em hell”: Time, September 27, 1948.
Gallup Poll: Gallup, The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 1935–1971, 757.
“My whole inclination”: Time, September 13, 1948.
“Cadillac Square”: Matt Connelly, Oral History, HSTL.
“You remember the big boom”: PP, HST, September 18, 1948, 504.
plow the straightest furrows: Ibid., 506.
“You stayed at home in 1946”: Ibid., 501.
“Understand me, when I speak”: Ibid., September 20, 1948, 518.
“Selfish men have always”: Ibid., September 21, 1948, 531.
“sharp speeches”: Donovan, Conflict and Crisis, 425.
These “little speeches”: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”
“Oh, I wish my grandfather”: PP, HST, September 21, 1948, 531.
“They tell me [he said at Mojave]”: Ibid., September 23, 1948, 554.
“I’m here on a serious mission”: Ibid., September 22, 1948, 544.
“In 1946, you know”: Ibid., September 20, 1948, 512, 514.
“Give ’em hell”: Clark Clifford, author’s interview.
“I never gave anybody hell”: The New York Times, December 27, 1972.
“It will be a picture”: The New Yorker, October 9, 1948.
Los Ang
eles speech: PP, HST, September 24, 1948, 559.
“We are not quite holding our own”: Tusa, The Berlin Airlift, 235.
“That’s good”: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”
a “Research Division”: George Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.
“He gives every appearance”: Clifford, author’s interview.
the “evil forces”: Time, October 11, 1948.
HST never mentioned Dewey: Clifford, author’s interview.
“If you wanted anything”: The New Yorker, October 16, 1948.
“sort of rube reputation”: Daniels, The Man of Independence, 358.
Description of Dewey campaign: The New Yorker, October 16, 1948.
“Tonight we enter upon a campaign”: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 193.
“We cannot win without”: Quoted in Donovan, 420.
“Smile, governor”: Smith, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times, 26.
“You have to know Mr. Dewey well”: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 32.
“like a man who has been”: The New Yorker, October 16, 1948.
“It is written in the stars”: Smith, 17.
carnal relations: Ibid., 34.
“When you’re leading”: Ibid., 30.
“We always asked them”: Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 166.
“How long is Dewey”: Life, October 25, 1948.
“get down in the gutter”: Quoted in Smith, 515.
“Isn’t it harder in politics?”: New Republic, November 1, 1948.
“We resurrected the president’s”: Sullivan, The Bureau, 44.
“The tragic fact is”: Time, October 4, 1948.
“We’ll have no thought police”: Quoted in Smith, 508.
“We hit Salt Lake City”: Quoted in Ross, The Loneliest Campaign, 207.
“Then we went into Texas”: PP, HST, September 29, 1948, 629.
“He is good on the back”: Quoted in Hardeman and Bacon, Rayburn: A Biography, 340.
“they’d shoot Truman”: Quoted in Steinberg, 325.
“an eloquence close to”: Daniels, 362.
“Our government is made up”: PP, HST, September 26, 1948, 210.
“I am going over to Bonham”: Ibid., September 27, 1948, 591.
“So in making their speeches”: Ibid., 589.
“Some things are worth fighting for”: Ibid., 593, 595.
“They came in droves”: Truman, Souvenir, 231.
“I know every man, woman, and child”: Hardeman and Bacon, 341.
“Shut the door, Beauford”: Quoted in Truman, Harry S. Truman, 37.
“A great many honors”: Baruch, The Public Years, 399.
“one jump ahead of the sheriff’: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”