Truman (179 page)

“bond of friendship”: Washington
Star,
April 17, 1945.

“At this moment”: PP, HST, April 16, 1945, 3.

“He’s one of us”: McNaughton Papers, April 14, 1945, HSTL.

“your ability to discharge”: Henry Luce to HST, April 17, 1945, HSTL.

“May I say”: Archibald John Brier to HST, April 17, 1945.

“Good luck, Harry”: Quoted in Donovan,
Conflict and Crisis,
19.

“Well, I have had”: HST to MET and MJT, April 16, 1945, HSTL.

First press conference: PP, HST, April 17, 1945, 8–13.

“direct” performance: Leahy,
I Was There,
349.

lived five lifetimes:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 53.

Three days later: PP, HST, April 20, 1945, 16–19.

“naturally smart boy”:
Newsweek,
August 15, 1949.

“He made first-class citizens”: George Tames, author’s interview.

“Stick with me”: Quoted in Smith, ed.,
Merriman Smith’s Book of Presidents: A White House Memoir,
56.

“He was alert”: George Elsey, author’s interview.

“See, with President Roosevelt”: Floyd Boring, author’s interview.

“tragically inadequate”: Daniels, 27.

“To the White House this morning”: Hassett, “The President Was My Boss,”
Saturday Evening Post,
November 28, 1953.

“Missourians are most in evidence”: Ayers Diary, April 17, 1945, HSTL.

“the lounge of the Lion’s Club”: Quoted in Steinberg,
The Man from Missouri,
13.

McKim was “weird”: Jonathan Daniels, Oral History, HSTL.

Prohibition gangster: Ayers Diary, April 17, 1945, HSTL.

“We were all a strange lot”: Rosenman, “Harry S. Truman: Man from Independence,”
American Heritage
(unpublished), 70.

“Well, he was a sergeant”: Matt Connelly, Oral History, HSTL.

“The fact is”: Ayers Diary, May 14, 1945, HSTL.

“balance and tact”: Ibid.

“Tell them I don’t authorize”: Harry Vaughan, Oral History, HSTL.

“Hoover’s hatred”: Sullivan,
The Bureau,
38.

“We want no Gestapo”: HST Memorandum, May 12, 1945,
Off the Record,
22.

“honest and friendly”: Quoted in Churchill,
The Second World War.
Vol. VI:
Triumph and Tragedy,
484.

“He’ll make enemies”: Drury, 418.

“I don’t think you know”: Samuel Rosenman, Oral History, HSTL.

“It was a wonderful relief’: Stimson Diary, April 18, 1945.

“Changes in the battle situation”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 51.

Leahy was struck: Leahy, 348.

“to get on the inside”: Rigdon, with Derieux,
White House Sailor,
183.

“I pray you believe”: Quoted in Snyder,
The War,
520.

“a keen appreciation”: Kennan,
Memoirs, 1925–1950,
233.

“And anyway the Russians”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 70–71.

“I can testify”: Quoted in Halle,
The Cold War as History,
38.

“Averell is right”: Quoted in Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
255.

“It would be one”: Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin,
437.

“We must not permit”: Quoted in Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
437.

“Russia will emerge”: OSS File, April 2, 1945, HSTL.

April 6 cable: Gaddis,
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War,
201.

not a man of his word: Morgan,
F.D.R., A Biography,
762.

“minor misunderstandings”: Harriman and Abel, 439–40.

“I would minimize”: Ibid.

“barbarian invasion”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 73.

happy with 85 percent: Gaddis, 203.

“The White House upstairs”: Quoted in Truman,
Bess W. Truman,
260.

like a ghost house: West, with Kotz,
Upstairs at the White House,
58.

“go to hell”: Quoted in
Forrestal Diaries,
50.

“for fear we are rushing”: Stimson Diary, April 23, 1945.

Forrestal strongly disagreed:
Forrestal Diaries,
50.

no intention of issuing:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 78.

“until we have done”: Ibid., 79.

“I am very sorry”: Stimson Diary, April 23, 1945.

“I have never been talked to”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 82.

Bohlen’s account: Bohlen,
Witness to History,
213.

“a little taken aback”: Harriman and Abel, 453.

the best news he had heard: Vandenberg, 176.

“I think it is very important”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 85.

“Mr. President, I don’t like”: Quoted in Morison,
Turmoil and Tradition,
609.

“a real man”: HST to Jonathan Daniels, February 26, 1950, unsent,
Off the Record,
174.

“Within four months”: Stimson Diary, April 25, 1945.

“The President took”: Ibid.

Truman told him to go ahead: Stimson and Bundy,
On Active Service in Peace and War,
616.

“The President did not show”: Quoted in Sherwin,
A World Destroyed,
293.

“This is a big project”: Quoted in Rhodes,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
625.

“It might perhaps”: Quoted in Sherwin, 284.

Truman measurements: Paul Shinkman to Eben Ayers, May 10, 1945, HSTL.

“It’s a tough job”: Stone,
The War Years. 1939–1945,
281–82.

“He ought to surrender it”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 91.

“at a brisk trot”: West, with Kotz, 61.

“We have received so much mail”: MJT to HST, April 24, 1945, HSTL.

“I do hope”: MJT to HST, May 1, 1945, HSTL.

“I arrived home”: MJT to HST, May 7, 1945, HSTL.

“You both have done”: HST to MET and MJT, April 21, 1945, HSTL.

“This is a solemn”: PP, HST, May 8, 1945, 44.

“straight one-two to the jaw”: Sherwin, 172.

“like people from across”: Wallace, 450–51.

“His sincerity”: Ayers Diary, May 26, 1945, HSTL.

“show them how much”: Churchill, 437.

“it is my present intention”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 216.

“Mr. President, in these next two months”: Churchill, 497.

May 12 Churchill telegram: Gilbert,
Winston Churchill. Never Despair,
6.

“It is a very, very hard position”: HST to Mrs. Emmy Southern, May 13, 1945,
Off the Record,
23.

“air of quiet confidence”: Eden,
Memoirs,
621.

“To have a reasonably”: HST Diary, May 22, 1945,
Off the Record,
35.

Martha Ellen Truman’s visit:
The New York Times,
May 12, 1945.

prefer to sleep on the floor: Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
266.

“Oh, you couldn’t help but”: Floyd Boring, author’s interview.

“My bedroom is pink”: Truman,
Souvenir,
98.

story of the old-fashioneds: West, with Kotz, 75.

“stand no fakers”: Fields,
My 21 Years at the White House,
122.

“correct but not formal”: West, 58.

“He knew when a stenographer’s”: Smith, 60.

“this was the first time”: Fields, 120.

“Not built right”: HST to EW, March 19, 1941,
Dear Bess,
455.

“The President seemed relieved”: Quoted in Donovan, 28.

“And that was about all”: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. I, 698.

“Saw Herbert Hoover”: HST Diary, June 1, 1945,
Off the Record,
40.

“I can’t understand it”: HST Diary, May 27, 1945, ibid., 38.

“push ahead as fast”: Quoted in Rhodes, 646.

“visual effect of an atomic bombing”: Quoted in Sherwin, 208.

“with reluctance”: Quoted in Wyden,
Day One,
163.

“a remarkable document”: Ibid., 154.

“The idea of”: Yale University Atomic Bomb File, HSTL.

“Have been going through”: HST Diary, June 1, 1945,
Off the Record,
39.

“as a new weapon”: Stimson Diary, May 31, 1945.

June 6 Stimson meeting: Stimson Diary, June 1 and 6, 1945.

“What a puny effort”: C. L. Sulzberger,
World War II,
114.

“outdoing Hitler”: Stimson Diary, June 6, 1945.

“the earliest possible date”: Quoted in Morison, 621.

“The ultimate responsibility”: Stimson and Bundy,
On Active Service in Peace and War,
617.

“straight military objective”: Cray,
General of the Army,
538.

“We must offset”: Quoted in Pogue,
George C. Marshall: Statesman 1945–1959,
17.

“The opinions of our scientific”: Quoted in Bundy,
Danger and Survival,
71.

“shock value”: Stimson,
On Active Service,
617.

“We regarded the matter”: Quoted in Mosley,
Marshall,
337–38.

“only by men”: Quoted in Rhodes, 637.

“His general demeanor”: Quoted in Wyden, 143.

“render the Russians”: Ibid., 142.

“Oppenheimer didn’t share”: Ibid., 143.

“the damn thing”: Quoted in Phillips,
The Truman Presidency,
54.

“We are on our way”: Quoted in Truman,
Souvenir,
109.

“I hope—sincerely hope”: HST Diary, June 1, 1945,
Off the Record,
40.

“Don’t think over six”: Ibid.

“Just two months ago”: HST to EWT, June 12, 1945,
Dear Bess,
515–16.

“He’s a nice fellow”: HST to EWT, June 19, 1945, Ibid., 516.

“I’m always so lonesome”: HST Diary, June 1, 1945,
Off the Record,
40.

A Gallup Poll: Donovan, 21.

“And as usual”: Ayers Diary, June 18, 1945, HSTL.

“Nothing really important”:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. I, 92.

“always been our friends”: HST Diary, June 7, 1945,
Off the Record,
44.

First time Hopkins thanked: Miller, 225.

“Mr. Prima Donna”: HST Diary, June 17, 1945,
Off the Record,
47.

“He wants an estimate”: Quoted in Sherwin, 336.

“I have to decide”: HST Diary, June 17, 1945,
Off the Record,
47.

June 18, 1945, meeting: Feis,
The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II,
10.

“We were beginning”: John J. McCloy, author’s interview.

June 26, 1945, speech: PP, HST, June 26, 1945.

“Dad loved”: Truman,
Bess W. Truman,
266.

“I shall attempt”: HST, Speech Files, June 27, 1945, HSTL.

“I am anxious”: Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
279–280.

July 2, 1945, speech: PP, HST, July 2, 1945, 153–55.

no buzzer: Woolf, “President Truman Talks About His Job,”
The New York Times Magazine,
July 15, 1945.

he would “soon go under”: Ibid.

“Punish her war criminals”: Stimson Diary, May 16, 1945.

Morgenthau meeting: Morgenthau, 466.

Morgenthau didn’t know: Jonathan Daniels interview with HST, November 12, 1949, HSTL.

“I am getting ready”: HST to MET and MJT, July 3, 1945, HSTL.

“How I hate”: HST Diary, July 7, 1945,
Off the Record,
49.

10. Summer of Decision

“Today’s prime fact”: Stimson quoted in Compton,
Atomic Quest,
219.

“like a moving circus”: HST to MET and MJT, January 27, 1947, HSTL.

“It seems to take two warships”: HST to MT, July 14, 1945, HSTL.

“You who have not seen”: Film Collection, HSTL.

Truman on Fred Canfil: Hersey,
Aspects of the Presidency,
39.

“At the end of the war”: O. Müller Grote to HST, February 10, 1956, HSTL.

a “nightmare of a house”:
The New York Times,
August 3, 1945.

“They erected a couple of”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945, in Ferrell, ed.,
Off the Record,
50.

“wholly inadequate”:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. II, 9.

“He comes from Owensborough”: HST to MET and MJT, January 27, 1947, HSTL.

Bohlen, too, was struck: Bohlen,
Witness to History,
226.

“astonishingly well prepared”: Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin,
485.

“Mr. Russia” and “Mr. Great Britain”: HST Diary, July 7, 1945,
Off the Record,
49.

“half so badly”: HST to EWT, February 19, 1916,
Dear Bess,
187.

“I’ve studied more”: HST to EWT, May 26, 1918, HSTL.

“Haven’t you ever been”: Woolf, “President Truman Talks About His Job,”
The New York Times Magazine,
July 15, 1945.

Prime Minister padding down the hall: Wilroy and Prinz,
Inside the Blair House,
7–8.

Eleanor Roosevelt had written: Lash,
Eleanor: The Years Alone,
29.

“I must confess, sir”: See note for page 874, Chap. 17.

“He says he is sure”: Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill. Never Despair,
61.

“We had a most pleasant”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945,
Off the Record,
51.

“Very Secret, Urgent”:
Foreign Relations of the United States, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
Vol. I, 876.

Sato responded: Ibid., 883.

“good soldiers and millions”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945,
Off the Record,
52.

“It is a terrible thing”:
The New York Times,
July 17, 1945.

“I never saw such destruction”:
Memoirs,
Vol. I, 341.

“absolute ruin”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945,
Off the Record,
52.

modern war…“brought home”: Leahy,
I Was There,
396.

“I thought of Carthage”: HST Diary, July 16, 1945,
Off the Record,
52.