No Ordinary Time

  277 “There was nothing . . .”: Eleanor Wotkyns, OH, FDRL.

  277 “This watching Hall . . .”: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 137.

  277 “fired first upon . . .”: NYT, Sept. 12, 1941, p. 1.

  277 Greer had deliberately stalked: Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy (1981), p. 287.

  278 “No matter what . . .”: NYT, Sept. 12, 1941, p. 4.

  278 “It was the firmest . . .”: Stimson Diary, Sept. 11, 1941, Yale University.

  278 “shoot on sight” policy: NYT, Oct. 19, 1941, p. 5.

  278 “Sentiment on Capitol Hill . . .”: David Lawrence, Diary of a Washington Correspondent (1942), p. 206.

  278 “Roosevelt’s deviousness . . .”: Dallek, Roosevelt and Foreign Policy, p. 289.

  278 “suddenly gone . . .”: William Hassett to FDR, Sept. 21, 1941, box 19, Roosevelt Family Papers Donated by the Children, FDRL.

  279 ghastly noises: interview with William Emerson.

  279 “My idea of hell . . .”: Lash, Love, Eleanor, p. 357.

  279 “The President returned . . .”: Tommy to AB, Sept. 24, 1941, box 75, Halsted Papers, FDRL.

  279 “Hall has died’ . . .”: James Roosevelt, My Parents, p. 113.

  279 “My mother-in-law . . .”: ER to Martha Gellhorn, Oct. 1, 1941, ER Microfilm Collection, FDRL.

  279 “the terrible waste . . .”: Tommy to AB, Sept. 24, 1941, box 75, Halsted Papers, FDRL.

  279 ER dug out old photos: Joseph P. Lash, A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943–1962 (1984), p. xviii.

  279 “The loss of someone . . .”: TIR, p. 230.

  280 “no government agency . . .”: NYT, Aug. 26, 1941, p. 5.

  280 “There are 135,000,000 . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 642.

  280 “I’m worried . . .”: Lash, Love, Eleanor, p. 355.

  280 “I honestly think . . .”: Tommy to AB, Sept. 24, 1941, box 75, Halsted Papers, FDRL.

  280 “If I feel depressed . . .”: LHJ, Oct. 1944, p. 43.

  281 ER attire on September 29: WP, Sept. 30, 1941, p. 10.

  281 “You are Mrs. Roosevelt . . .”: MD, Sept. 29, 1941.

  281 ER outlined three goals: NYT, Sept. 30, 1941, p. 28.

  281 “I am ridiculously busy”: ER to Martha Gellhorn, Nov. 10, 1941, ER Microfilm Collection, FDRL.

  281 “He was glad . . .”: Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, OH, FDRL.

  281 “What’s this I hear? . . .”: TIR, p. 231.

  281 “There is an advantage . . .”: Lash Diary, Oct. 5, 1941, Lash Papers, FDRL.

  282 “We all had . . .”: ibid.

  282 Pink Star: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 (1941), p. 399.

  282 Kearney: NYT, Oct. 8, 1941, p. 1.

  282 Reuben fames: Richard M. Ketchum, The Borrowed Years, 1938–1941 (1989), p. 605.

  282 “I think the Navy . . .”: Stimson Diary, Oct. 23, 1941, Yale University.

  282 only 30 percent: NYT, Oct. 1, 1941, p. 8.

  283 majority of 72 percent: NYT, Oct. 9, 1941, p. 5.

  283 “If we continue . . .”: WP, Sept. 7, 1941, p. 1.

  283 “American war vessels . . .”: NYT, Oct. 18, 1941, p. 9.

  283 Senate finally agreed: NYT, Nov. 8, 1941, p. 1.

  283 “He had no more tricks . . .”: Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948), p. 383.

  283 FDR had agreed to a policy: Dallek, Roosevelt and Foreign Policy, pp. 273–75.

  283 Tojo replaced Konoye: ibid., p. 303.

  284 “very discouraged and cynical . . .”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.

  284 “Just as you move . . .”: HH to MLH, Nov. 12, 1941, HH Papers, FDRL.

  285 “so quick and full . . .”: interview with Virginia Shipp.

  285 FDR’s trip was postponed: NYT, Nov. 21, 1941, p. 13.

  285 “I must say . . .”: FDR, Jr., to ER, Nov. 26, 1941, box 57, Halsted Papers, FDRL.

  285 “I tell you frankly . . .”: Joel Seidman, American Labor: From Defense to Reconversion (1953), p. 66.

  285 “We felt a weight . . .”: MD, Nov. 23, 1941.

  286 “fairly blew up . . .”: Stimson Diary, Nov. 27, 1941, Yale University.

  286 “a very tense, long day . . .”: Stimson Diary, Nov. 27, 1941, Yale University.

  286 “If the current negotiations . . .”: Stark to FDR, Nov. 27, 1941, PSF 80, FDRL.

  286 FDR instructed Hull: Stimson Diary, Nov. 28, 1941, Yale University.

  286 “very sorry that he . . .”: ibid.

  286 train reached Newman: NYT, Nov. 30, 1941, p. 34.

  286 “had a few drinks . . .”: A. Merriman Smith, Thank You, Mr. President (1946), p. 107.

  286 “You had to have . . .”: Bernard Asbell, The FDR Memoirs (1973), p. 400.

  287 “endure the ordeal . . .”: ibid.

  287 “the Far East picture . . .”: Tully, F.D.R, p. 249.

  287 “for the honor and pride . . .”: Cordell Hull, The Memoirs of Cordell Hull, vol. II (1948), pp. 1089–90.

  287 “nearly in tears . . .”: Tully, F.D.R, p. 251.

  287 “That means . . .”: NYT, Dec. 2, 1941, p. 27.

  287 “the blood rush up . . .” . . . “Don’t let it . . .”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.

  287 “We’ve got our sources . . .”: ibid.

  288 December 6: Forrest C. Pogue, George C. Marshall: Ordeal and Hope, 1939–1942 (1966), vol. II, pp. 224–27.

  288 December 7: ibid, pp. 226–29.

  288 “The Japanese are . . .”: ibid, p. 229.

  288 189 Japanese planes: Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, Pearl Harbor—Why, How: Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal (1968), p. 88.

  288 “snugly side by side . . .”: Harold L. Ickes, Secret Diaries of Harold L. Ickes, vol. III, The Lowering Clouds, 1939–1941 (1954), p. 661.

  289 Knox relayed the news: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 431.

  289 “Mr. President . . .”: American Heritage, Nov. 1989, p. 54.

  289 “All the secretaries . . .”: MD, Dec. 7, 1941.

  289 ER returned to work: TIR, p. 233.

  289 “the news of the war . . .”: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 139.

  289 “deadly calm . . .”: ER interview Graff Papers, FDRL.

  289 “each report more . . .”: ibid.

  289 “he was completely . . .”: ibid.

  289 “had never had . . .”: American Heritage, Nov. 1989, p. 60.

  289 “I never wanted . . .”; “We haven’t . . .”: ER interview, Graff Papers, FDRL.

  290 “Hi, Old Man . . .”: interview with James Roosevelt.

  290 “Within the first hour . . .”: Tully, F.D.R, p. 255.

  290 remarkable conversation: interview with Alonzo Fields.

  290 “No American who lived . . .”: Marquis Childs, I Write from Washington (1942), p. 241.

  290 “ . . . It’s quite true . . . .”: Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. III, The Grand Alliance (1950), p. 538.

  290 “To have the United . . .”: ibid, p. 539.

  291 “He was alone . . .”: Tully, F.D.R, p. 256.

  291 “Yesterday comma . . .”: ibid, p. 256.

  291 “She leaned over . . .”: PM, Dec. 8, 1941, “Amidst Crowded Days” diary in clippings of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, compiled, edited and executed by A. Cypen Lubitsh, 1943, box 3201, ER Papers. Hereafter cited Scrapbook, ER Papers, FDRL.

  291 “For months now . . .”: ibid.

  291 “The Japanese . . .”: ibid.

  291 “Chinese, not Japanese, please . . .”: Life, Dec. 22, 1941, pp. 81–82.

  292 “It was very . . .”; “I’m thankful . . .”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.

  292 “The effect on the Congressmen . . .”: Stimson Diary, Dec. 7, 1941, Yale University.

  292 “How did it . . .”; “How did they catch . . .”: American Heritage, Nov. 1989, p. 86.

  293 “I don’t know, Tom . . .”: Francis Biddle, In Brief Auth
ority (1962), p. 206.

  293 “was how we should . . .”: Stimson Diary, Nov. 25, 1941, Yale University.

  293 “Neither Army or Navy . . .”: Frank Knox, “Report by the Secretary of the Navy to the President,” Dec. 14, 1941, PSF 80, FDRL.

  293 “The anti-aircraft . . .”: interview with William Emerson.

  294 “We are operating . . .”: Wallin, Pearl Harbor, p. 45.

  294 “The damage was . . .”: Ross McIntire, White House Physician (1946), p. 137.

  294 “Missy telephoned . . .”: Asbell, FDR Memoirs, p. 401.

  294 “that the indecision . . .”: Stimson Diary, Dec. 7, 1941, Yale University.

  294 “You know . . .”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.

  294 “Monday was almost . . .”: Childs, I Write, p. 242.

  295 “the unprovoked . . .”: NYT, Dec. 9, 1941, p. 1.

  295 Rankin: ibid.

  295 “American soil . . .”: ibid.

  295 “he would support . . .”: NYT, Dec. 8. 1941, p. 6.

  295 “no strikes . . .”: George Martin, Madame Secretary: Frances Perkins (1976), p. 451.

  295 “Labor’s response . . .”: Hillman to FDR, Dec. 12, 1941, OF 4076, FDRL.

  295 ER to West Coast: TIR, p. 236.

  295 “Hell, this isn’t . . .”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 10, 1941, p. D.

  296 “looking for all the world . . .”: TIR, p. 236.

  296 “I am not here to give . . .”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 10, 1941, p. D.

  296 “ . . . to cooperate with . . .”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 9, 1941, p. 2.

  296 “Rumors were everywhere . . .”: interview with Jiro Isihara.

  296 “Let’s be honest . . .”: NYT, Dec. 15, 1941, p. 9.

  296 “We know there are . . .”: MD, Dec. 15, 1941.

  297 “When she starts bemoaning . . .”:Tamara Hareven, Eleanor Roosevelt: An American Conscience (1968), p. 167.

  297 “I think almost . . .” Washington Star, Dec. 17, 1942, Scrapbook, ER Papers, FDRL.

  297 “He was all alone . . .”: Samuel I. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt (1952), p. 312.

  297 “Was it possible . . .”: James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1970), p. 171.

  297 Hitler’s speech: text in William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960), pp. 897–900.

  298 “a state of war . . .”: New York Times, Dec. 9, 1941, p. 1.

  298 “It seems like . . .”: ER to LH, Dec. 11, 1941, LH Papers, FDRL.

  298 “No more Congressional . . .”; “gloomy in winter . . .”: LH manuscript, LH Papers, FDRL.

  298 “with not a little annoyance”: William Seale, The White House: The History of an American Idea (1992), p. 228.

  298 “One of the Secret Service . . .”: interview with Milton Lipson.

  299 “Henry, I will not . . .”: TIR, p. 237.

  299 “Mrs. Roosevelt is very . . .”: Tommy to Esther Lape, Dec. 16, 1941, box 6, Esther Lape Papers, FDRL.

  CHAPTER TWELVE: “Two Little Boys Playing Soldier”

  300 “You should have . . .”: interview with Alonzo Fields.

  300 “It had not occurred . . .”: MD, Dec. 22, 1941.

  301 “he was like a child . . .”: Lord Moran, Churchill—The Struggle for Survival, 1940–1965 (1966), p. 11.

  301 “It was night time . . .”: W. H. Thompson, Assignment: Churchill (1955), p. 246.

  301 “Even in the half-light . . .”: Moran, Churchill, p. 11.

  301 “The President was . . .”: Mrs. Charles Hamlin, “Memories,” FDRL; also in NR, suppl., April 1946.

  301 “It must have been . . .”; “I have a toast . . .”: ibid.

  302 “At ten o’clock . . .”: TIR, p. 242.

  302 WC was installed: William Seale, The President’s House (1986), p. 974; Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948), p. 442.

  302 “Now, Fields . . .”: interview with Alonzo Fields.

  302 “I’ll be back . . .”: ER interview, Graff Papers, FDRL.

  303 “There is no question . . .”: ibid.

  303 “Mother would just fume . . .”: interview with Elliott Roosevelt.

  303 “that she worried . . .”: Lillian Roger Parks, The Roosevelts: A Family in Turmoil (1981), p. 99.

  303 “There was a wild burst . . .”: NYT, Dec. 24, 1941, p. 4.

  303 In the course of the Arcadia Conference: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. VII, Road to Victory: 1941–1945 (1986), pp. 35–36.

  303 “The news around . . .”: Stimson Diary, Dec. 25, 1941, Yale University.

  303 sweeping through Malaya: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 453.

  304 end of December: Elena Skrjabina, Siege and Survival (1971), p. 28.

  304 “When you leave . . .”: ibid., p. 30.

  304 “He was always a gay . . .”: ibid., p. 51.

  304 one million would die; counterattack: James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom (1970), pp. 187–88; Martin Gilbert, The Second World War (1989), p. 284.

  305 “a hell of a row”: quoted in Moran, Churchill, p. 21.

  305 “Our people are very . . .”: ibid., p. 24.

  305 “We live here as . . .”: Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. III, The Grand Alliance (1950), p. 608.

  305 Christmas Eve: Seale, President’s House, p. 974; NYT, Dec. 25, 1941, pp. 1, 12; WP, Dec. 25, 1941, pp. 1, 5.

  305 “old and good friend”: NYT, Dec. 25, 1941, p. 12.

  305 “Let the children . . .”: WP, Dec. 25, 1941, pp. 1, 5.

  306 “Her voice did not . . .”: Lash Diary, Dec. 26, 1941, Lash Papers, FDRL.

  306 for Fala: Washington Star, Dec. 26, 1941, Scrapbook, ER Papers, FDRL.

  306 “She could never get . . .”; “it kept him . . .”: Lash Diary, Jan. 1, 1942, Lash Papers, FDRL.

  306 “He was really incapable . . .”: Fulton Oursler, Behold This Dreamer! (1964), pp. 424–25.

  307 “I guess I’m usually . . .”: MLH to FDR, n.d., PPF 3737, FDRL.

  307 “I don’t know what . . .”: Bernard Asbell, The FDR Memoirs (1973), p. 402.

  307 “Missy and I . . .”: Ann Rochon to ER, Jan. 1, 1942, PPF 3737, FDRL.

  307 “Xmas was a very sad day . . .”: Bernard Asbell, Mother and Daughter (1988), p. 141.

  307 “jolly and care free . . .”: Moran, Churchill, p. 15.

  308 “He just wasn’t having . . .”: John Morton Blum, From the Morgenthau Diaries, vol. III (1967), p. 122.

  308 “a tremendous occasion . . .”: Moran, Churchill, p. 15.

  308 “it was difficult . . .”: ibid.

  308 WC’s methods: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 261.

  308 “for sustained . . .”: AM, Sept. 1949, p. 41.

  308 “wastes little time . . .”: Moran, Churchill, p. 13.

  308 “does not reflect . . .”: AM, Sept. 1949, p. 40.

  309 “Churchill is always . . .”: Thompson, Assignment, p. 253.

  309 “Do you realize . . .”: Moran, Churchill, p. 16.

  309 “I cannot help reflecting . . .”: text of speech, NYT, Dec. 27, 1941, p. 4.

  309 “the first sound . . .”: David E. Lilienthal, The Journal of David E. Lilienthal, vol. 1 (1964), p. 418.

  309 “They had witnessed . . .”: WP, Dec. 27, 1941, pp. 1, 3.

  310 “I hit the target . . .”: Moran, Churchill, p. 17.

  310 “It was a tragic . . .”: Hamlin, “Memories,” FDRL.

  310 “everyone completely . . .”: MD, Dec. 26, 1941.

  310 “She saw in Churchill . . .”: interview with Curtis Roosevelt.

  310 “Nobody enjoyed the war . . .”: Martha Gellhorn, OH, FDRL.

  310 “The walls were covered . . .”: interview with George Elsey.

  311 “They looked like . . .”: interview with James Roosevelt.

  311 motored to Mount Vernon: NYT, Jan. 2, 1941, p. 1.

  311 “After the war . . .” . . . “You know Winston . . .”: Justine Polier, OH, FDRL.

 
312 “batted an eyelash”: Samuel I. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt (1952), p. 320.

  312 “Churchill wasn’t very fond . . .”: interview with Elliott Roosevelt.

  312 “The Prime Minister . . .”: Lash Diary, Jan. 1, 1942, Lash Papers, FDRL.

  312 “I like Mr. Churchill . . .”: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 141.

  312 best story was told: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 442.

  312 “Bathtubs were a contrivance . . .”: Joseph P. Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939–1941 (1976), p. 15.

  312 “The Prime Minister . . .”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 442.

  312 declaration signed: NYT, Jan. 3, 1942, pp. 1, 4.

  312 “It was as quiet . . .”: Hamlin, “Memories.”

  312 “President ought to do! . . .”: Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, pp. 19–20.

  313 “You would have been . . .”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 478.

  313 “His lips are . . .”: Moran, Churchill, p. 13.

  313 “It is fun . . .”: ibid., p. 27.

  313 “We must raise . . .”: NYT, Jan. 7, 1942, p. 5.

  313 “The figures reached . . .”: U.S. News, Jan. 10, 1942, p. 15.

  313 “Oh—the production people . . .”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 474.

  313 “who never met . . .”: Bruce Catton, The War Lords of Washington (1948), p. 84.

  314 “These figures . . .”: NYT, Jan. 7, 1942, p. 5.

  314 complete ban: NYT, Jan. 2, 1942, p. 1.

  314 rationing cars and trucks: NYT, Jan. 16, 1942, p. 14.

  314 Leon Henderson said: NYT, Jan. 3, 1942, p. 1.

  314 “In the dealers’ . . .”: Time, Jan. 12, 1942, p. 61.

  314 “Mr. Knudsen looked . . .”: Alfred Steinberg, Mrs. R (1958), p. 279.

  314 “I said nothing . . .”: MD, Jan. 14, 1942.

  315 Donald Nelson: W. M. Kiplinger, Washington Is Like That (1942), pp. 37–38.

  315 “final” decisions: Life, Jan. 26, 1942, p. 29.

  315 “Look here . . .”: Norman Beasley, Knudsen (1947), p. 341.

  315 “I have never seen . . .”: Jesse H. Jones, Fifty Billion Dollars (1951), p. 272.

  315 By the end of the luncheon: Beasley, Knudsen, pp. 342–43.

  315 “For more than a year . . .”: Winston M. Estes, Homefront (1976), p. 45.

  316 Emergency Price Control Bill: NYT, Jan. 31, 1942, pp. 1, 26.

  316 ER’s promises on use of sugar: NYT, Jan. 27, 1942, p. 18.

  316 run on sugar: NYT, Feb. 10, 1942, p. 13.

  316 “It never crossed . . .”: NYT, Jan. 27, 1942, p. 18.