Truman (177 page)

“if he gets only two votes”: Quoted in Helm, 126.

reelection announcement: St. Louis
Post-Dispatch,
February 5, 1940.

opposed to FDR third term: Ibid.

“There is no indispensable man”: Hassett, “The President Was My Boss,”
Saturday Evening Post,
November 28, 1953.

“We borrowed clerks”: John Snyder, Oral History, HSTL.

“A United States Senator…sleeping”: Quoted in Miller, 166.

“At sixteen”: Quoted in Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
139.

“While the President is unreliable”: HST to EWT, September 24, 1939,
Dear Bess,
420.

Bernard Baruch contribution: Byrnes,
All in One Lifetime,
101.

America “ought to sell”: Miscamble, “Evolution of an Internationalist.”

Tom Evans, who was twelve years: Evans, Oral History, HSTL.

“Cut your speech”: Quoted in Daniels, 202.

“I just wanted to come down”: Ibid.

“I believe in”: HST quoted in Helm, 137.

“When we are honest enough”: Speech before National Colored Democratic Association Convention, July 14, 1940, HSTL.

St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
cartoon: March 29, 1940.

“enough errors to give me”: Quoted in Daniels, 205

“The decent, honest”: St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
(undated), Messall Scrapbooks, HSTL.

Truman urged to release letter: Daniels, 205.

Stark’s chauffeur: Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
141.

“Lloyd’s ambitions”: Ibid., 132–33.

foreclosure on farm: Kansas City
Star,
July 17, 1940, Messall Scrapbooks, HSTL.

thought he was having a heart attack: HST to EWT, November 15, 1941,
Dear Bess,
468.

the shame she would feel: HST to EWT, August 13, 1940, ibid., 442.

“I’m thinking August 6”: HST to EWT, June 23, 1940, ibid., 440.

“Will call you from Sedalia”: Ibid.

“Anyway we found out”: HST to EWT, August 9, 1940, ibid., 441.

“He finally ended up”: Daniels, 209.

Bob Hannegan: St. Louis
Post-Dispatch,
July 24, 1944.

“Well…I guess”: Hinde, Oral History, HSTL.

it was Bess who answered: Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
145.

“the machine vote”: Lloyd C. Stark to FDR, August 9, 1940, FDRL.

“I thought Wheeler and Jim Byrnes”: HST to EWT, August 10, 1940,
Dear Bess,
441.

“Has my certification of election”: Edwin A. Halsey, telegram to HST, December 13, 1940, HSTL.

7. Patriot

“War has many faces”: Sevareid,
Not So Wild a Dream,
164.

“Locksley Hall” poem in wallet: Hillman, ed.,
Mr. President,
206.

“As I watched those white fires”: Quoted in Flower and Reeves, eds.,
The Taste of Courage,
135.

“We have everything to lose”: Kansas City
Times,
May 2, 1941.

Clark was destroying himself: HST to EWT, October 3, 1941,
Dear Bess,
466.

“My relief of mind”: Pogue,
George C. Marshall: Ordeal and Hope,
59.

Marshall told him he was too old: HST “Autobiographical Sketch,” HSTL.

Washington a different city: Green,
Washington,
466–73; Brinkley,
Washington Goes to War.

“a little investigation”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 165.

automobile odysseys: Ibid.

“getting ruined…And there were men”: Quoted in Miller,
Plain Speaking,
175.

“There’s too much that is wrong”: Helm,
Harry Truman,
151.

“It is a considerable sin”: Schlesinger and Bruns,
Congress Investigates. A Documented History,
1792–1974, 3121.

it “must be assumed that”: Pogue, 108.

Nye Committee: Baruch,
Public Years,
269.

“The thing to do”:
Time,
March 8, 1943.

Byrnes $10,000 committee funding:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 166.

“Looks like I’ll get something”: HST to EWT, March 19, 1941,
Dear Bess,
456.

“The political situation”: HST to EWT, August 1, 1939, ibid., 416.

Hugh Fulton:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 167.

departure of Messall: Tom Evans, Oral History, HSTL.

“What are you fishing for?” Executive Session, June 8, 1942,
Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program,
United States Senate, NA.

“You give a good leader”:
Papers of George C. Marshall,
Vol. 2, 483.

“There was no attempt”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 171.

saved the government $250 million: Riddle,
The Truman Committee,
147.

gallbladder attack: U.S. Army Medical Records, 1941, HSTL; Truman,
Bess W. Truman,
200–01.

“My standing in the Senate”: HST to EWT, June 19, 1941,
Dear Bess,
457.

“If we see that Germany”:
The New York Times,
June 24, 1941.

“Last year he ran”: U.S. Army Medical Records, 1941, HSTL.

pressed by Vandenberg: Schlesinger and Bruns, 3127.

“Well I spent yesterday”: HST to EWT, August 21, 1941,
Dear Bess,
461–62.

“studious avoidance of dramatics”: Salter, ed.,
Public Men In and Out of Office,
12.

“’Slightly built, bespectacled”:
Tri-County News,
Long City, Missouri (undated), Messall Scrapbooks, HSTL.

“Mr. Lewis, you are not seriously”: John L. Lewis testimony, March 26, 1943,
Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program,
United States Senate, NA, 55.

“Standard Oil” and I. G. Farben: HST Broadcast, “Rubber in America,” Blue Network, June 15, 1942, printed copy, HSTL.

“First of all”: Truman before Senate, October 29.
Congressional Record,
77th Congress, 1st Sess., 1941, Vol. XXCVII, 8303.

The record of the OPM: January 15, 1942,
Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program,
United States Senate, 77th Congress, 2nd Sess., 6.

Lilienthal on war with Japan: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. I, 408.

“No matter what happens”: Boardman,
From Harding to Hiroshima,
250.

“We have fought to get you”: Schlesinger and Bruns, 3131.

“Well at last I am sitting”: HST to EN, December 14, 1941, HSTL.

“Harry Truman was one of the”: Riedel,
Halls of the Mighty,
173–75.

it would “impair our activity”: Gosnell,
Truman’s Crises,
161.

unanimous reports: McCune and Beal, “The Job That Made Truman President,”
Harper’s,
June 1945.

“so close that a chorus girl”: Sevareid, 213.

“the return of Ceres”: HST to EWT, April 26, 1942,
Dear Bess,
473.

Still he couldn’t sleep: HST to EWT, April 30, 1942, ibid., 474.

he called for a second front: Miscamble, “Evolution of an Internationalist,”
Australian Journal of Politics and History,
August 1977.

“If I were the executive”: Closed Hearing on Wright Aeronautical Corporation, May 24, 1943,
Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program,
United States Senate, NA, 13.

Glenn Martin Company:
Memoirs,
184.

Carnegie-Illinois Steel hearing: March 23, 1943,
Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program,
United States Senate, NA, 820.

Stewart testimony: Ibid., 817.

“He cheated more than he was supposed”: Ibid., 833.

McGarrity testimony: Ibid., 837.

Irwin Works investigation: Ibid., 843–74.

“I don’t know anything about”: Ibid., 886.

Benjamin Fairless testimony: Ibid., 896–97.

asked by a reporter for his personal comment: Washington Post, March 24, 1943.

Canol Project: Testimony of General Brehon Somervell, December 20, 1943,
Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program,
United States Senate, NA.

“The committee damns it up and down”: Drury,
A Senate Journal,
29.

“all the desperate assertions”: Ibid.

reading Shakespeare and Plutarch: HST to EWT, June 18, 1942,
Dear Bess,
477.

as if he had just stepped: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.

“One day in a typical”: Riedel, 174.

“I went up to the front desk”:
The New Yorker,
November 23, 1987.

“I am more surprised every day”: HST to EWT, August 21, 1942,
Dear Bess,
487.

“The man from Missouri”: Pepper, with Gorey,
Pepper,
129.

never heard him even try: Margaret Truman Daniel, author’s interview.

“One time, one Christmas”: Ardis Haukenberry, author’s interview.

“You have a good mind”: HST to MT, March 13, 1942, Truman,
Letters from Father,
40.

“Tell my baby”: HST to EWT, July 22, 1942,
Dear Bess,
480–81.

to “only just drop in”: HST to EWT, April 30, 1942, ibid., 474.

“Well this is
the day
”: HST to EWT, June 28, 1942, ibid., 480.

“one of the most useful”: Helm, 228.

Truman and his committee known nationwide: Washington
Star
(undated), HSTL.

that “often a threat”:
Business Week,
June 26, 1943.

The whole country was greatly indebted: The Nation, January 24, 1942.

“objectivity at the total expense”: Krock,
Memoirs,
220.

286
Look
poll: May 16, 1944.

He spoke at a huge rally: Chicago
Daily News,
April 15, 1943.

“hotels, filling stations”: HST to EWT, December 21, 1939,
Dear Bess,
436.

merely talking about the Four Freedoms: Chicago
Daily News,
April 15, 1943.

Summer 1943 speaking tour: Miscamble, “The Evolution of an Internationalist.”

“History has bestowed”: Ibid.,

“We want aluminum”: Schlesinger and Bruns, 3129.

saved…as much as $15 billion:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 186.

“He seems to be a generally”: Drury, 29.

“There are a number of times”: Ibid, 106.

“Now that’s a matter”: Telephone conversation between HST and Stimson, June 17, 1943, HSTL

“I know something about”: HST to Lewis Schwellenbach, July 15, 1943, HSTL.

“In my humble opinion”: Memorandum to Mildred Dryden, December 3, 1943, HST Senate Papers, HSTL.

“I have sent an investigator”: HST to Senator Thomas, November 30, 1943, HST Senate Papers, HSTL.

“
COLONEL MATHIAS
”: Fred Canfil to HST, December 7, 1943, HSTL.

“Whenever he finds out”: HST to EWT, October 25, 1942,
Dear Bess,
491.

“The United States was engaged”: Martin,
My First Fifty Years in Politics,
100–01.

“He threatened me with dire consequences”: Stimson Diary, Yale University.

8. Numbered Days

being talked of as candidate: HST to EW, May 7, 1943, HSTL.

“Leadership is what we Americans”: Truman, “We Can Lose the War,”
American Magazine,
November 1942.

key man in the “conspiracy”: Quoted in HST memorandum to Jonathan Daniels, HSTL.

Flynn admires Wallace:
The New Yorker,
September 8, 1945.

First meeting with FDR: Flynn,
You’re the Boss; Allen, Presidents Who Have Known Me.

“I felt that he would never”: Flynn, 179.

Secretly, he was under: Bishop,
FDR’s Last Year,
94.

Hannegan on Wallace: Brown,
James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, A Remembrance
(manuscript), 255–56.

Byrnes influence on FDR: Ibid., 259.

“I did conclude”: Quoted in Byrnes,
All in One Lifetime,
221.

“Now, partner”: Quoted in Brown, 258.

somebody else “we have got”: Quoted in Daniels,
The Man from Missouri,
243.

Loss of New York: Flynn, 180.

“The Negro has not only”: Quoted in Brown, 264–66.

When they went through the list: Flynn, 181.

“His record as head”: Ibid.

FDR asked a favor: Anna Rosenberg, author’s interview.

smuggle in jars of caviar: Ibid.

“I don’t want to be”: Quoted in Helm,
Harry Truman,
220.

the word from “informed sources”: Drury,
A Senate Journal,
215–16.

“The Madam doesn’t want”: Max Lowenthal, Oral History, HSTL.

“It is funny”: HST to MT, July 9, 1944, Margaret Truman,
Letters from Father,
55.

“opened up on politics”: Wallace,
The Price of Vision,
361.

“Mr. President, if you can find”: Ibid., 362.

“Think of the catcalls”: Ibid.

“It was as though”: Drury, 216.

“Jimmy Byrnes”: Quoted in Brown, 269.

the decisive meeting: Allen, 128–29.

“I gathered that he felt”: Ickes Diary, July 16, 1944, LC.

“the only one who had”: Wallace, 366.

a new Gallup Poll: Allen, 130.

“Well, I am looking”: Wallace, 367.

“Look at the expressions”: Quoted in Brown, 276.

“Mr. President, all I have heard”: Ibid.

“You are the best qualified”: Quoted in Byrnes, 222.

“I don’t understand it”: Ibid., 223.

“I told them so”: Ibid, 224–25.

“We have to be”: Ibid.

Byrnes went directly down: Ibid.

Truman accepted at once: Ibid., 226.

Truman to nominate Barkley: Barkley,
That Reminds Me,
189.

As Alben Barkley would write: Ibid., 190.

Arthur Krock:
The New York Times,
July 16, 1944.

“Roosevelt could, of course”: Allen, 130.

“The train stood”: Tully,
F.D.R., My Boss,
276.