Truman

  “He does not like to dwell”: Ibid., October 15, 1951.

  Boyle background: Kansas City Star, August 31, 1951.

  “I like people who can”: HST to MT, December 3, 1944, Truman, Letters from Father, 60.

  Charles Binnagio: The New York Times, April 7, 1950; Life, April 17, 1950.

  “So Boyle is not only stupid”: Tubby Diary, early June, 1951.

  “It’s all right”: Ibid.

  “I have the utmost confidence”: PP, HST, August 9, 1951, 454.

  Murphy memorandum: Charles S. Murphy to HST, August 9, 1951, HSTL.

  Gabrielson revelations: Time, October 15, 1951.

  Elsey report: Dunar, The Truman Scandals, 128.

  “Let’s say continue”: PP, HST, December 13, 1951, 641.

  “Boss, you’re going to have to run”: Tubby Diary, October 15, 1951.

  “Once I’m outa the White House”: Ibid.

  Gallup Poll: The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 1935–71, 1032.

  “From that day forward”: Tubby Diary, January 16, 1952.

  “Dealing with Communist Governments”: HST, private longhand note, January 27, 1952, HSTL.

  Churchill trip to Washington: Gilbert, Winston Churchill, Never Despair, 675.

  “What Churchill did was great”: Acheson, Present at the Creation, 595.

  Churchill acknowledged American nuclear power: Tubby Diary, January 16, 1952.

  HST’s “great decision”: Gilbert, 676.

  “The last time you and I sat”: This often repeated tribute appears to have been recorded by Joe Short, who was on board the Williamsburg. It is paraphrased in Roger Tubby’s diary and would later appear in Margaret Truman Daniel’s book about her father and in several obituaries at the time of Truman’s death.

  “the great white jail”: HST to EWT, September 13, 1946, Dear Bess, 536.

  Hersey tour of White House: Hersey, 88.

  “It is the President’s desire”: Winslow Diary, January 14 1949, OCWH (Office of the Curator, White House).

  Congressional Commission established: Scale, The President’s House, Vol. II, 1029.

  “The character and extent”: The White House Report of the Commission of Public Buildings, 91.

  “The decision between these plans”: Ibid., 48.

  Rabaut argued for dismantling: Renovation Commission Hearing Minutes, July 19, 1949, HSTL.

  “They took the insides all out”: HST Diary, March 2, 1952, Off the Record, 243.

  for proper underpinning: Seale, Vol. II, 1034.

  “faithful reproductions”: The White House Report of the Commission of Public Buildings, 93.

  “The President has authorized”: Seale, Vol. II, 1039.

  description of bomb shelter: Tubby Diary, July 26, 1951.

  for “morale reasons”: Ibid.

  False radar report: Ibid.

  “He considered it his project”: Rex Scouten, author’s interview.

  “It is absolutely essential”: HST to Les Larson, June 12, 1951, HSTL.

  HST forced into politics: Hersey, 88.

  communing with White House spirits: Seale, Vol. II, 1047.

  Winslow memo to HST: H. G. Grim to Lorenze S. Winslow, September 13, 1951, HSTL.

  “I want it distinctly”: HST to William Adams Delano, August 25, 1950, HSTL.

  “moving at the double quick”: The New York Times, March 15, 1952.

  “Bess and I looked over”: HST Diary, March 27, 1952, Off the Record, 246.

  “The President was an inexhaustible”: The New York Times, May 4, 1952.

  “the most logical and qualified”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 489.

  Eisenhower lunch with HST: Krock, Memoirs, 267-68.

  “You can’t join a party”: Ambrose, Eisenhower, Soldier and President, 259-60.

  “He told me Arthur Krock’s story”: Sulzberger, A Long Row of Candles, 693.

  “Dear Ike: The Columnists”: HST to Dwight D. Eisenhower, December 18, 1951, Off the Record, 220.

  “a grand man”: PP, HST, January 10, 1952, 21, 22.

  “I’m sorry to see these fellows”: Tubby Diary, April 13, 1952.

  “Can we elect?”: HST Diary, July 6, 1952, Off the Record, 261.

  “He proved in that contest”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 491.

  “He comes of a political family”: Ibid.

  Stevenson talked his way past the guards: Martin, Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, 523.

  “I told him I would not run”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 491.

  “He was overcome”: HST Diary, March 4, 1952, Off the Record, 245.

  “He apparently was flabbergasted”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 492.

  “full of admiration”: Quoted in Martin, 523.

  “Stevenson was impressed”: Ibid., 524.

  “Adlai, if a knucklehead like me”: McKeever, Adlai Stevenson, His Life and Legacy, 179.

  “If Eisenhower were the Republican”: Ibid., 178.

  “[He] came to tell me”: HST Diary, March 4, 1952, Off the Record, 245.

  Clifford advice to HST: Clifford, with Holbrooke, Counsel to the President, 283.

  “Anybody who works closely”: Quoted in Martin, 544-45.

  “Not at all”: Acheson, 632.

  “I shall not be a candidate”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 492.

  “I found myself shouting”: Quoted in Martin, 547.

  “When you made your announcement”: Tubby Diary, April 3, 1952.

  Did he plan to run: PP, HST, April 3, 1952, 233-34.

  “I was stunned by”: Quoted in Martin, 553.

  HST response to Stevenson: Ibid.

  his amazing stamina: Tubby Diary, April 13, 1952.

  “inability to get on top”: Dunar, 119.

  with this farcical denouement: Phillips, The Truman Presidency, 413.

  “I want you to know”: Dunar, 119.

  “when I’m not so shaky”: Tubby Diary, April 13, 1952.

  “McGrath, Korean truce talks”: Ibid.

  HST appointment schedule: HSTL.

  “These are not normal times”: PP, HST, April 8, 1952, 246.

  “The President has the power”: Tubby Diary, April 6, 1952.

  “Secretary of Defense Lovett”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 469.

  “The attitude of the companies”: Ibid., 468.

  “The plain fact of the matter”: PP, HST, April 8, 1952, 249.

  HST looked so exhausted: Tubby Diary, April 13, 1952.

  “very desirable”: PP, HST, April 9, 1952, 251.

  one of the most high-handed acts: Washington Post, April 10, 1952.

  “Nothing in the Constitution”: Ibid.

  “Under similar circumstances”: PP, HST, April 17, 1952, 273.

  “I believe that the contemplated strike”: Time, May 12, 1952.

  “read it, read it”: Tubby Diary, May 3, 1952.

  “[I] had never seen him”: Ibid.

  an “outstanding” lawyer: Memoirs, Vol. II, 475.

  “We cannot with faithfulness”: Donovan, “Truman Seizes Steel,” Constitution, Fall 1990.

  “Today a kindly President”: Ibid.

  “damn fool from Texas”: Miller, Plain Speaking, 242.

  “a bit testy”: Donovan, “Truman Seizes Steel.”

  “No enemy nation could”: Newsweek, August 4, 1952.

  “The Court and Congress got us”: Tubby Diary, May 30–June 1, 1952.

  “If the doctor had come in”: Ibid, July 21, 1952.

  “It’s a lockout”: Ibid.

  “This should lead to”: PP, HST, July 24, 1952, 501.

  any red-blooded Democrat: Time, July 7, 1952.

  “You never know what’s in you”: Tubby Diary, July 2, 1952.

  “We followed you before”: Time, July 21, 1952.

  “If Harry Truman turns out”: Ibid., July 7, 1952.

  “I have been trying”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 496.

  “I am going to take my coat off: Ibid., 497.

  “The people are wise”: Time, August 4, 1952.

  “Sacrifice, pa
tience”: Quoted in McKeever, 201.

  “Stevenson made his decision”: Time, August 4, 1952.

  “Dear Governor: Last night”: HST to Adlai Stevenson, July 26, 1952, Off the Recora 263.

  “He was affronted by”: Quoted in McKeever, 198.

  “I have come to the conclusion”: HST to Adlai Stevenson, early August 1951, Off the Record, 266.

  “Can Stevenson really clean up”: Martin, 644.

  “rather ridiculous”: HST to Adlai Stevenson late August 1952, unsent, Off the Record, 268.

  “Oh, Stevenson will get”: Tubby Diary, August 21, 1952.

  “His eloquence was real”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 497.

  HST would do everything possible: Tubby Diary, August 13, 1952.

  “There’s a man of granite”: Ibid.

  “When you vote the Democratic ticket”: PP, HST, September 29, 1952, 621.

  “What I’ve always had in mind”: HST to Dwight Eisenhower, August 16, 1952, Off the Record, 263-64.

  “a modern Cromwell”: Tubby Diary, September 17, 1952.

  “This will help us”: Ibid., September 22, 1952.

  “I nearly choked to hear him”: Ibid., September 14, 1952.

  “I feel as if I killed them”: Ibid., September 22, 1952.

  “red-hot anger”: Reeves, 439.

  “Do I need to tell you”: Ibid., 440.

  “very sad and pathetic”: PP, HST, October 4, 1952, 711.

  “lay off Ike for a while”: Tubby Diary, early October, 1952.

  “The general whose words”: PP, HST, October 7, 1952, 738.

  “betrayed his principles”: Ibid., October 10, 1952, 784.

  “Why, General Marshall was responsible”: Quoted in Miller, 370.

  “Just how low”: Quoted in Donovan, 401.

  “Ike was well informed”: Bradley and Blair, A General’s Life, 650.

  no one could have beaten Eisenhower: HST memorandum, December 22, 1952, Off the Record, 282.

  “if you still desire”: Donovan, 402.

  “I sincerely wish”: HST Diary, November 15, 1952, Off the Record, 273.

  “an orderly transfer”: Memoirs, Vol. II, 505.

  he wished someone had done: Tubby Diary, November 24, 1952.

  “not very graciously”: HST Diary, November 20, 1952, Off the Record, 274.

  “He’ll sit right here”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 603.

  “The White House is quiet”: HST Diary, November 24, 1952, Off the Record, 275.

  “Since last September Mother Wallace”: Ibid.

  “She was a grand lady”: HST Diary, December 6, 1952, ibid., 279.

  32 percent: Gallup, 1102.

  43 percent: Ibid.

  “I wonder how far Moses”: HST Memorandum, 1954(?), Off the Record, 310.

  “It bears down on a country boy”: HST to EN, January 2, 1952, Off the Record, 287.

  felt “repudiated”: Tubby Diary, February 1, 1953.

  reminiscences with staff: Ibid, February 2, 1953.

  916Look magazine article: Commager, “A Few Kind Words for Harry Truman,” Look, August 1951.

  “Flying back over the flatlands”: Tubby Diary, February 3, 1953.

  “Certainly no man”: PP, HST, January 16, 1953, 1203.

  “In personality, conversation”: Brown, Through These Men, 41.

  farewell address: PP, HST, January 15, 1953, 1197-1202.

  “in the manner of his going”: New York Herald-Tribune, January 19, 1953.

  Inauguration day: HST Diary, January 20, 1953, Off the Record, 287.

  “I was glad I wasn’t”: West, with Kotz, Upstairs at the White House, 126.

  “I ride with Ike”: HST Diary, January 20, 1953, Off the Record, 257.

  “the very many courtesies”: Ambrose, 296.

  “It was a shocking moment”: Eric Sevareid, author’s interview.

  “The street in front of Dean’s house”: HST Diary, January 20, 1953, Off the Record, 288.

  “an absolutely wonderful affair”: Truman, Harry S. Truman, 610.

  “There’s the best friend”: Washington Post, January 21, 1953.

  “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 instin
ct”: 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.