Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (174 page)

“He never looked toward the grave”:
Washington Post,
Sept. 10, 1941.

“I just can’t”: E. Roosevelt and A. Roosevelt, 137.

“Hyde Park could be”: Roosevelt and Shalett, 319.

“This son of man has just sent his final message”: Ibid., 646.

“Sit down, Grace”: Tully, 256.

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941”: Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941.

“became engaged in a war against the United States”: Sherwood, 441.

“The sudden criminal attacks”: Fireside Chat, Dec. 9, 1941.

“Our patience is ended…place in the sun”:
New York Times,
Dec. 12, 1941.

“The long known and the long expected”: Message to Congress, Dec. 11, 1941.

“I’ve always heard things came in threes”:
New York Times,
Dec. 12, 1941.

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“So we had won after all!”: Churchill, 3:605–6.

“Now that we are”: From Churchill, Dec. 9, 1941.

“In August it was easy to agree”: Unsent draft to Churchill, Dec. 10, 1941.

“Delighted to have you here”: To Churchill, Dec. 10, 1941.

“I clasped his strong hand”: Churchill, 3:662–63.

“There was general agreement”: Churchill to war cabinet, Dec. 23, 1941, Churchill 3:664.

“The Prime Minister of Great Britain”: Sherwood, 442–43.

“Our view remains that Germany”: Memo by U.S. and British chiefs of staff, Dec. 31, 1941,
FRUS: Conferences at Washington, 1941–1942, and Casablanca, 1943.

“As a result of what I saw in France”: U.S. minutes of meeting, Dec. 25, 1941,
FRUS: Washington and Casablanca,
92–93.

“highest authority”: Ibid.

“continuous line of battle”: Minutes by Sexton, Dec. 26, 1941,
FRUS: Washington and Casablanca.

“You should work on Churchill”: Sherwood, 457.

“Don’t be in a hurry…meet the American view”: Churchill, 3:673–74.

“common program of purposes and principles”: Declaration of United Nations, Jan. 1, 1942.

“Generals Arnold, Eisenhower, and Marshall”: Stimson diary, Dec. 25, 1941.

“His view was that these reinforcements”: Hollis to Smith, Dec. 24, 1941,
FRUS: Washington and Casablanca.

“I then read to him extracts”: Stimson diary, Dec. 25, 1941.

“We discussed various things”: Ibid.

“This is a strange Christmas Eve”: Churchill, 3:670.

“I wish indeed that my mother…and in peace”:
New York Times,
Dec. 27, 1941.

“auspicious and impressive…less oratory and more action”: Ibid.

“The last evening of Churchill’s visit”: Sherwood, 477–78.

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“In this year, 1942…Italy and Japan”: State of the Union address, Jan. 6, 1942.

“This is a new kind of war…freedom from fear”: Fireside Chat, Feb. 23, 1942.

“This is not an impudent question, sir”: Press conference, Dec. 9, 1941.

“subversive activities in the United States…those cocksuckers”: Ronald Kessler,
The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI
(2002), 52–53; Richard Gid Powers,
Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI
(2004), 168.

“This task must be conducted”: Statement, Sept. 6, 1939.

“With those aliens who are disloyal”: Signing statement, June 29, 1940.

“There must not be permitted”: Powers,
Broken,
186.

“We’re charged with wanting to get rid of the Japs”: Greg Robinson,
By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans
(2001), 90.

“In view of the circumstances”:
New York Times,
Feb. 12, 1942.

“The Fifth Column on the Coast”:
Washington Post,
Feb. 12, 1942.

“We are so damned dumb”: Ibid., Feb. 15, 1942.

“When it comes to suddenly mopping up”: Morgenthau, 3:3.

“the Department of Justice would not under any circumstances”: Francis Biddle,
In Brief Authority
(1962), 218.

“The second generation Japanese”: Stimson diary, Feb. 10, 1942.

“There will probably be some repercussions”: Robinson,
By Order of the President,
106.

“the successful prosecution of the war”: Executive Order 9066, Feb. 19, 1942.

“The Philippine theater is the locus of victory or defeat”: H. W. Brands,
Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines
(1992), 190.

“The people of the United States”: Message to Philippine people, Dec. 28, 1941.

“Our troops have been subsisted”: Brands,
Bound to Empire,
196.

“These people are depending on me now”: Ibid., 197.

“The President of the United States ordered me”:
New York Times,
March 21, 1942.

“When I reflect how I have longed and prayed”: From Churchill, March 5, 1942.

“I reacted so strongly and at such length”: Churchill, 4:209.

“I have given much thought”: To Churchill, March 10, 1942.

“We must not on any account”: From Churchill, March 4, 1942.

“disastrous effect”: To Churchill, Aug. 11, 1942.

“Its proposed application to Asia and Africa”: From Churchill, Aug. 9, 1942.

“I am sure you will have no objection”: To Churchill, Aug. 13, 1942.

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“I realize how the fall of Singapore has affected you”: To Churchill, Feb. 18, 1942.

“Thirteen B-25s effectively bombed…than we sent over”: From Arnold, May 3, 1942, FDRL.

“How about the story about the bombing”: Press conference, April 21, 1942.

“What Harry and Geo. Marshall will tell you”: To Churchill, April 3, 1942.

“Marshall presented in broad outlines”: Sherwood, 523.

“momentous proposal”: Churchill, 4:317–20.

“I am delighted with the agreement”: To Churchill, April 21, 1942.

“whole-hearted”: From Churchill, April 17, 1942.

“I am very heartened at the prospect”: To Churchill, April 21, 1942.

“I have a cordial message from Stalin”: Ibid.

“I am looking forward”: To Stalin, May 4, 1942.

“His style was cramped…second front this year”: Sherwood, 561–63.

“Full understanding was reached”: Roosevelt-Molotov statement, June 11, 1942.

“We know there will be two kinds…and possibly China”: Sherwood, 572–73.

“May I very briefly recall”: From Stimson, no date,
FRUS: Washington and Casablanca,
458.

“You are familiar with my view”: From Marshall, June 23, 1941,
FRUS: Washington and Casablanca,
476.

“We are bound to persevere”: From Churchill, June 20, 1942.

“This was one of the heaviest blows”: Churchill, 4:383.

“extremely powerful bombs of a new type”: From Einstein, Aug. 2, 1939, FDRL.

“Our talks took place after luncheon”: Churchill, 4:379–80.

“One thing that might help win this war”: Robert H. Ferrell, ed.,
The Eisenhower Diaries
(1981), 48, 50.

“an integrated, general plan of operations” Memo from King, March 5, 1942, FDRL.

“Good for you”: To Churchill, July 2, 1942.

“No responsible British General”: From Churchill, July 8, 1942.

“You will proceed immediately to London”: To Hopkins, Marshall, and King, July 16, 1942, Sherwood, 603–04.

“Marshall and King pushed very hard…full speed ahead”: Sherwood, 611–12.

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“I should greatly like to have your aid”: From Churchill, Aug. 4, 1942.

“Stalin took issue at every point”: From Harriman, Aug. 10, 1942,
FRUS: 1942,
vol. 3.

“The Soviet Command built their plan”: Stalin aide-mémoire, Aug. 13, 1942,
FRUS: 1942,
3:621.

“I am sorry that I could not have joined with you”: To Stalin, Aug. 18, 1942.

“Everything for us now turns on hastening Torch”: Churchill, 4:494.

“The President has gone to Hyde Park”: Ibid., 450–51.

“The attack should be launched”: To Churchill, Aug. 30, 1942.

“as sharp a reproof…we needed him most”: Sherwood, 635.

“They are almost prayerfully anxious”:
New York Times,
Sept. 22, 1942.

“You did not know that was going on?”: Press conference, Oct. 6, 1942.

“four main areas of combat”: Fireside Chat, Sept. 14, 1942.

“You know…‘supposed to be secret’”: A. Merriman Smith,
Thank You, Mr. President
(1946), 54.

“Quite frankly I regard”: To Early, Oct. 24, 1944, FDRL.

“to keep the cost of living”: Message to Congress, April 27, 1942.

“stabilize the cost of living…of our own making”: Message to Congress, Sept. 7, 1942.

“a comprehensive national economic policy”: Executive Order 9250, Oct. 3, 1942.

“This whole nation of 130,000,000”: Fireside Chat, Oct. 12, 1942.

“When I went in to see Roosevelt”: Forrest C. Pogue,
George C. Marshall
(1966), 2:402.

“F.D.R. was on edge…We are striking back”: Tully, 264.

“Upon the outcome depends”: Burns, 2:292.

“I speak to you as one”: Radio address, Nov. 7, 1942.

“My dear old friend…the Axis yoke”: to Pétain, Nov. 8, 1942; Sherwood, 645–47; from Churchill, Nov. 2, 1942.

“You invoke pretexts which nothing justifies”: Sherwood, 645.

“That man is Darlan”: Ambrose,
Eisenhower,
1:208.

“a nice old proverb of the Balkans”: Press conference, Nov. 17, 1942.

“I have accepted General Eisenhower’s political arrangements”: Statement, Nov. 17, 1942.

“I appreciate fully the difficulties”: Sherwood, 654.

“This is not the end”:
New York Times,
Nov. 11, 1942.

“Darlan’s murder”: Churchill, 3:644.

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“We here are all highly gratified”: From Stalin, Nov. 14, 1942.

“It seems to me that the Americans”: Stalin to Churchill, Nov. 29, 1942, in Churchill to Roosevelt, Dec. 2, 1942.

“The more I consider our military situation”: To Stalin, Dec. 2, 1942.

“I think I can tell you in advance”: From Churchill, Nov. 26, 1942.

“It is impossible for me to leave the Soviet Union”: From Stalin, Dec. 14, 1942.

“I prefer a comfortable oasis to the raft at Tilsit”: To Churchill, Dec. 2, 1942.

“The aliases from this end”: To Churchill, Jan. 2, 1943.

“Should you bring Willkie with you”: From Churchill, Jan. 3, 1943.

“I’m not crazy about flying”: To ER, Jan. 13, 1943.

“I dislike flying the more I do of it!”: To John Roosevelt, Feb. 13, 1943.

“Inasmuch as I know that the Congressman”:
Washington Post,
March 6, 1943.

“It was quite a place”: Elliott Roosevelt,
As He Saw It,
65–66.

“It gave me intense pleasure”: Churchill, 3:675–76.

the Combined Chiefs produced a document: Final report of Combined Chiefs, Jan. 23, 1943,
FRUS: Washington and Casablanca.

“At the time of France’s surrender in 1940”: Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Crusade in Europe
(1948), 84.

“I had continuous difficulties”: Churchill, 3:682.

“De Gaulle is on his high horse…Get some sleep yourself, Elliott”: Roosevelt,
As He Saw It,
69–77.

“No distractions should be permitted…very slender reed”: McCrea notes of Roosevelt-Giraud meeting, Jan. 19, 1943, Roosevelt,
As He Saw It,
90–91.

“We delivered our bridegroom”: To Hull, Jan. 18, 1943,
FRUS: Washington and Casablanca.

“Roosevelt asked whether de Gaulle”: Stimson diary, Feb. 3, 1943.

“the people realized that personal pride”: John McCrea notes of Roosevelt–de Gaulle meeting, Jan. 22, 1943,
FRUS: Washington and Casablanca.

“De Gaulle was a little bewildered”: Hopkins notes, Jan. 24, 1943,
FRUS: Washington and Casablanca.

“Another point”: Press conference, Jan. 24, 1943.

“some feeling of surprise…our war effort”: Churchill, 3:686–87.

“We have decided the operations”: Roosevelt and Churchill to Stalin, Jan. 25, 1943.

“I thank you for the information”: From Stalin, Jan. 30, 1943.

“When this is accomplished”: Roosevelt and Churchill to Stalin, Feb. 9, 1943.

“In order to prevent the enemy from recovering”: From Stalin, Feb. 16, 1943.