The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (98 page)

“those bandits in Korea suppressed”
: George Elsey memo, June 30, 1950, the Harry S. Truman Library.

“but we can’t be sure they’ll be”
: Frank Pace oral history at the Harry S. Truman Library.

“such a sense of relief and unity”
: Goldman, Eric,
The Crucial Decade,
p. 157.

“get Herbert Hoover off the can”
: D. Clayton James interview with John Chiles, the MacArthur Memorial Library, Norfolk, Virginia.

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7

“an ‘untouchable
’”: Soffer, Jonathan,
General Matthew B. Ridgway,
p. 114; Blair, Clay,
The Forgotten War,
p. 79.

“usually chose to ignore it”
: Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
At Ease,
p. 213.

“made for lesser men”
: Hastings, Max,
The Korean War,
p. 65.

“
‘the greatest man in history
’”: Swanberg, W. A.,
Luce and His Empire,
p. 311.

“a general too long”
: author interview with John Hart.

“hostile and suspicious foreign government”
: Kennan, George F.,
Memoirs 1925
–
1950,
p. 382.

not actually gain that medal for another twenty-seven
: Manchester, William,
American Caesar,
p. 15.

“within two thousand miles”
: Dower, John,
War without Mercy,
p. 152.

“It means an imperial policy”
: Karnow, Stanley,
In Our Image,
p. 96.

used to identify Asians
: Dower, John,
War without Mercy,
p. 151.

“for whom Christ died”
: Karnow, Stanley,
In Our Image,
pp. 127–128.

“The ball has begun”
: Ibid., p. 140.

“is a dead one”
: Dower, John,
War without Mercy,
p. 152.

“If old Dewey had just sailed away”
: Karnow, Stanley,
In Our Image,
p. 106.

“any less than I do”
: Zimmerman, Warren,
First Great Triumph,
p. 390.

“like an Asian potentate”
: Ibid., p. 391.

“a comparatively short period”
: James, D. Clayton,
The Years of MacArthur, Vol. I,
p. 39.

“like Robert E. Lee”
: Manchester, William,
American Caesar,
p. 41.

“everything he wanted to be”
: James, D. Clayton,
The Years of MacArthur, Vol. I,
p. 347.

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8

“great bad man”
:
Infantry
magazine, Spring 2002.

“of social discipline then”
: Manchester, William,
American Caesar,
p. 26.

“How am I doing, Dad?”
James, D. Clayton,
The Years of MacArthur, Vol. III,
p. 183.

“selecting him as one of your Generals,”
Manchester, William,
American Caesar,
p. 93.

“knows him quite well”
: James, D. Clayton,
The Years of MacArthur, Vol. I,
pp. 169–171.

his armies at twenty-six
: Manchester, William,
American Caesar,
p. 134.

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9

their pilots must be white
: Manchester, William,
American Caesar
, pp. 170–171.

bottle up the Japanese fleet
: Ibid., p. 186.

“it isn’t the same”
: Ibid., p. 281.

“They’re my allies!”
: Ibid., p. 337.

“since Darius the Great”
: Gunther, John,
The Riddle of MacArthur,
pp. 41–42.

“and send you home”
: Manchester, William,
American Caesar,
p. 322.

“blackmail and assault”
: Ibid., pp. 149–150.

“Yes, my friend, of course”
: Perret, Geoffrey,
Old Soldiers Never Die,
p. 157.

“I told that dumb son”
: D’Este, Carlo,
Eisenhower,
p. 222.

“Incipient revolution is in”
: Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
At Ease,
pp. 216–217.

“would have been threatened”
: Manchester, William,
American Caesar,
p. 152.

“the other is Douglas MacArthur”
: James, D. Clayton,
The Years of MacArthur, Vol. I,
p. 411.

“our worst politician”
: MacArthur, Douglas,
Reminiscences,
p. 96.

“a lie would serve him just as well”
: Manchester, William,
American Caesar,
p. 240.

it went out as he directed
: Rovere, Richard, and Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.,
The General and the President,
p. 22.

“a symbol of our nation”
: Lee, Clark, and Henschel, Richard,
Douglas MacArthur,
p. 87.

“
‘can risk being first rate’”
: Gunther, John,
The Riddle of MacArthur,
p. 23.

“
‘Communists and British imperialists
’”: Ibid., p. 42.

“obvious from the evidence”
: Ferrell, Robert (editor),
The Eisenhower Diaries,
p. 22.

“of every true patriot”
: Rovere, Richard, and Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.,
The General and the President,
pp. 23–24; Manchester, William,
American Caesar,
pp. 362–363.

a MacArthur run
: James, D. Clayton,
The Years of MacArthur, Vol. III,
p. 195.

“such skunks as”
: Ibid., p. 200.

“whooping it up for MacArthur”
: Manchester, William,
American Caesar,
p. 357.

“to which I might be called”
: Gunther, John,
The Riddle of MacArthur,
p. 61.

“is as low as a rug”
: Manchester, William,
American Caesar,
p. 524.

“Custers, Pattons, and MacArthurs”
: Ferrell, Robert (editor),
Off the Record,
p. 47.

“Doug didn’t bother me”
: Ibid., p. 60.

only to MacArthur were they sent out
: author interview with Bill McCaffrey.

“tired of fooling around”
: Ayers, Eben,
Truman in the White House,
edited by Robert H. Ferrell, p. 81.

first with the War Department
: James, D. Clayton,
The Years of MacArthur, Vol. III,
p. 19.

“cannot spare the time”
: Ibid., pp. 22–23.

“like to pin a medal”
: Ibid., p. 22.

“Wait a minute”
: Ibid., p. 19.

“up to heroic stature”
: Ayers, Eben A.,
Truman in the White House,
edited by Robert H. Ferrell, p. 360.

“you can find all the answers”
: James, D. Clayton,
The Years of MacArthur, Vol. III,
p. 60.; Rovere, Richard, and Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.,
The General and the President,
p. 92.

“whipped them just the same”
: James, D. Clayton,
The Years of MacArthur, Vol. III,
p. 109.

“wasn’t so bad”
: Leary, William (editor),
MacArthur and the American Century,
p. 243.

for selling out to State
: Bradley, Omar,
A General’s Life,
p. 526.

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they visited the latrine
: author interview with Colonel Jim Hinton.

for spare parts
: author interview with Sam Mace.

“physically unprepared for war”
: Toland, John, interview with Keyes Beech for
Mortal Combat,
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.

“at the end of the supply line”
: Knox, Donald,
The Korean War, Vol. I,
p. 10.

“ill equipped and poorly trained”
: Blair, Clay,
The Forgotten War,
p. 93.

“except to fight”
: Fehrenbach, T. R.,
This Kind of War,
p. 102.

on the rosy side
: Blair, Clay,
The Forgotten War,
p. 88.

“no combat soldiers, just a cadre”
: James, D. Clayton,
The Years of MacArthur, Vol. III,
p. 84.

was not contagious
: Beech, Keyes,
Tokyo and Points East,
pp. 145–146.

“start riding down the highway”
: Hastings, Max,
The Korean War,
pp. 95–96.

who were true believers
: Ha Jin,
War Trash
.

“Let the gooks kill each other”
: Knox, Donald,
The Korean War
,
Vol. I,
p. 6.

quickly boarded
: Ibid., p. 17.

“we’ll have no difficulty”
: Fehrenbach, T. R.,
This Kind of War,
p. 73.

“or bottom to top”
: author interview with Lieutenant Colonel Fred Ladd.

so he could at least take
: Knox, Donald,
The Korean War, Vol. I,
pp. 19–21.

“in Seoul by the weekend”
: Warner, Denis,
The Opening Round of the Korean War, Military History
magazine, June, 2000.

“36 miles in 36 hours”
: Ibid.

records would be cleaned
: Knox, Donald,
The Korean War, Vol. I,
p. 33.

get ready for their courts-martial
: author interview with William West.

“It sucked up men from everywhere”
: Fehrenbach, T. R.,
This Kind of War,
p. 122.

barely rubbed off
: Appleman, Roy,
South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu,
pp. 214–215.

to attack his command
: Blair, Clay,
The Forgotten War,
pp. 186–187.

“a different and more favorable”
: Ibid., p. 187.

“over here looking for a job”
: Ibid., p. 189. Ridgway oral history, U.S. Army War College Library.

“I couldn’t get you out”
: Appleman, Roy,
Ridgway Duels for Korea,
p. 4.

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a two-front war
: letter from Mike Lynch to Wilson Heefner, courtesy of Heefner.

“I will not be driven from the Naktong Line”
: Walters, Vernon A.,
Silent Missions,
p. 195.

released to the Eighth Army
: Heefner, Wilson,
Patton’s Bulldog,
pp. 159–160.

talented, charismatic younger officers
: author interview with Sam Wilson Walker.

skirmishes on the Mexican border
: Heefner, Wilson,
Patton’s Bulldog,
pp. 5–13.

“fighting little son of a bitch”
: author interview with Sam Walker.

from the Michelin tire advertisements
: Thompson, Reginald,
Cry Korea,
p. 235.

“what they’re giving me to fight”
: author interview with Frank Gibney.

“George Patton and Douglas MacArthur”
: author interview with Sam Walker.