Truman (181 page)

Ickes resignation:
The New York Times,
February 14, 1946.

a chronic “resigner”: Quoted in Miller, 226.

“There would have been no rest”: HST to MET and MJT, February 7, 1946, HSTL.

American Mercury
article: Crawford, “Everyman in the White House,” February 1946.

“appears to consider it necessary”: Leahy Diary, February 21, 1946, LC.

Stalin statement on war: Donovan, 187.

Justice Douglas reaction: Ibid.

“I will call you Harry”: Ross Diary, March 7, 1946, HSTL.

“Harry, what does a sequence count?”: Quoted in Daniels,
The Man of Independence,
279.

“He took a boy’s delight”: Ross Diary, March 7, 1946, HSTL.

Churchill wish to be born American: Gilbert,
Winston Churchill. Never Despair,
146.

“You stop drinking”: Ibid., 147.

“do nothing but good”: Ibid.

HST and Churchill on eagle’s head: Ross Diary, March 9, 1946, HSTL.

“Iron curtain” speech: Quoted in Gilbert, 198.

HST denies knowing what Churchill would say: Wallace, 558.

HST pleads “no comment”: PP, HST, March 8, 1946, 145.

“the Long Telegram”: Donovan, 187–88.

“here and now”: Matt Connelly Papers, HSTL.

“He was in his study”: Ross Diary, March 23, 1946, HSTL.

Mary Jane’s reaction to HST press conference: Mary Jane Truman, Oral History, HSTL.

492
Life
article: Busch, “A Year of Truman,” April 8, 1946.

“Here is to be seen”:
The New York Times Magazine,
April 7, 1946.

494
Time
article: May 6, 1946.

“I can hold a Cabinet meeting”: PP, HST, May 2, 1946, 227.

“Big money has too much”: HST to MET and MJT, January 23, 1946, HSTL.

“I’m going to give you the gun”: Quoted in Daniels, 325.

“We have a society”:
The New York Times,
May 22, 1946.

“That’s the way he is”: Ibid., May 26, 1946.

a “complicated”: J. C. Truman, author’s interview.

“This was the fifth day”: Ayers Diary, May 23, 1946, HSTL.

HST meeting with veterans: Washington
Star,
May 24, 1946.

“There were poignant scenes”:
Newsweek,
June 3, 1946.

Telegrams flooding the White House: White House Correspondence File, HSTL.

“At home those of us”: HST speech draft, undelivered, Clifford Papers, HSTL.

“In the manner of Lincoln”: Phillips, 115.

“I’d never been in the White House”: Clark Clifford, author’s interview.

“Alone of all the Truman entourage”: Quoted in Allen and Shannon,
The Truman Merry-Go-Round,
61.

“The President is intelligent”: Clifford, with Holbrooke,
Counsel to the President,
274.

“I come before the American people”: PP, HST, May 24, 1946, 274.

“He said they had verbally agreed”: Clifford interview, Daniels notes, HSTL.

“For the past two days”: PP, HST, May 25, 1946, 277.

“Spotlights ablaze”:
New Republic,
June 3, 1946.

“he could be tough”:
The New York Times,
May 26, 1946.

“Draft men who strike”:
New Republic,
June 3, 1946.

“I was the servant”: Film Collection, HSTL.

“Nothing about the Wallace affair”: George Elsey, author’s interview.

“If Mr. Slaughter is right”: PP, HST, July 18, 1946, 350.

HST’s health: Ross Diary, July 20, 1946, HSTL.

“Had the most awful day”: HST to MET and MJT, July 31, 1946, HSTL.

“She’s on the way out”: HST to EWT, August 9, 1946,
Dear Bess,
530.

“Be good and be tough”: MT [Margaret Truman] to HST, June 14, 1946, Truman,
Letters from Father,
142.

“I still have a number of bills”: HST to EWT, August 10, 1946,
Dear Bess,
530.

“It’s just wonderful”: MacDonald, “President Truman’s Yacht,”
Naval History,
Winter 1990.

“See, he had no airs”: Clifford, author’s interview.

“He always plays a close hand”: Ted Marks, Oral History, HSTL.

“The
Williamsburg
”: MacDonald, “President Truman’s Yacht.”

“This is a paradise”: HST to MT, August 23, 1946, Truman,
Letters from Father,
69.

“did all sorts of antics”: Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
366.

“The furniture was taking headers”: HST to EWT, September 2, 1946,
Dear Bess,
534.

“Night before last”: HST to EWT, September 9, 1946, ibid., 535.

disliked living there: HST to EWT, September 3, 1946, ibid., 534.

“You better lock your door”: Truman,
Letters from Father,
144.

“I’m in the middle”: HST to EWT, September 10, 1946,
Dear Bess,
536.

HST press conference: PP, HST, September 12, 1946, 426–29.

“If the President”: Ross Diary, September 21, 1946, HSTL.

Wallace account: Wallace, 612–13.

tried to skim through it: HST Diary, September 17, 1946,
Off the Record,
94.

Reston column:
The New York Times,
September 13, 1946.

“The criticism continued to mount”: Ross Diary, September 21, 1946, HSTL.

“I’m still having Henry Wallace trouble”: HST to MET and MJT, September 18, 1946, HSTL.

“Henry told me”: HST to EWT, September 20, 1946,
Dear Bess,
539.

“Everything’s lovely”: Quoted in Acheson, 192.

“Henry is the most peculiar fellow”: HST to MET and MJT, September 20, 1946, HSTL.

“He wants to disband”: Quoted in Donovan, 227.

Byrnes telegram: Byrnes,
Speaking Frankly,
241–42.

“so nice about it”: HST to EWT, September 21, 1946,
Dear Bess,
539.

“I would rather be
anything
”: HST to MET and MJT, September 20, 1946, HSTL.

“No man in his right mind”: HST to MT, September 9, 1946, Truman,
Letters from Father,
71.

“a liar, double-crosser”: HST to MT, September 17, 1946, ibid., 75.

“Sept. 26, 1918”: HST Diary, September 26, 1946,
Off the Record,
98.

Ickes called him “stupid”:
Time,
September 30, 1946.

32 percent poll results: Gallup,
The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion
1935–1971, 604.

“Nothing on meat”: PP, HST, October 10, 1946, 447.

Truman continues electronic surveillance: Gentry,
J. Edgar Hoover,
344.

“The shrill pitch of abuse”:
Time,
October 28, 1946.

he alone was formally dressed: Ibid.

“Here was a man”: Kilgore quoted in Steinberg,
The Man from Missouri,
288.

“never seemed to have a problem”: Fields,
My 21 Years in the White House,
187.

“We went to the Waldorf: HST to MT, October 26; 1946, Truman,
Letters from Father,
81.

Jefferson City stop:
Time,
November 11, 1946.

“Probably no President”: Phillips, 161.

12. Turning Point

“This is a serious course”: PP, HST, March 12, 1947, 179.

Lippmann on HST: Steel,
Walter Lippmann and the American Century,
455.

“My dear Harry”: WC to HST, May 12, 1947, quoted in Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill. Never Despair,
326.

Acheson alone…was waiting: Acheson,
Present at the Creation,
200.

“The captain with the mighty heart”: Ibid., dedication page.

“so fast they were falling all over”: Clark Clifford, author’s interview.

Lilienthal in rain: Lilienthal
Journals,
Vol. I, 54.

“the kind of grim gaiety”: Ibid., 118.

“Oh, God, it was the chance”: Clifford, author’s interview.

“now a free man”: Quoted in
Time,
April 7, 1947.

“I’m doing as I damn please”: HST to EWT, November 18, 1946,
Dear Bess,
540.

“How can there be immunity”: Goldman,
The Crucial Decade—And After,
29.

“He told me that he would”: HST Diary, January 1, 1947, in Ferrell, ed,
Off the Record,
107.

“Bob is not austere”:
Time,
January 20, 1947.

HST walks to Union Station: Ayers Diary, January 6, 1947, HSTL.

“your appointment as Secretary of State”: Mosley,
Marshall: Hero for Our Times,
390.

“I thought that the continuing harping”: Cray,
General of the Army,
17.

Marshall did not possess the intellectual brilliance: Halle,
The Cold War as History, 113.

“It was a striking and commanding force”: Acheson, 140–41.

exit office backwards: Paul Horgan, author’s interview.

“He never made any speeches”: Miller,
Plain Speaking,
251.

“Sometimes he would sit”:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 112.

“He was a man you could count on”: Quoted in Miller, 250.

“On the one hand”: Pogue,
George C. Marshall.
Statesman, 141–42.

“He gave a sense of purpose”: Bohlen,
Witness to History,
259.

“Gentlemen, don’t fight”: Quoted in Pogue, 148.

Acheson found working with the general: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. II, 159.

“The more I see and talk”: HST appointment sheet, February 18, 1947,
Off the Record,
109.

“Marshall is a tower”: HST Diary, May 7, 1948, ibid., 134.

“I am surely lucky”: HST appointment sheet, February 18, 1947, ibid., 109.

“He no longer moans”: Gaddis,
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War,
1941–1947, 347.

“His eye is clear”: Quoted in
Time,
January 27, 1947.

48 percent poll rating:
Time,
February 10, 1947.

“They brought back all the pageantry”: West, with Kotz,
Upstairs at the White House,
91.

“The papers say today”: HST to MET and MJT, February 9, 1947,
Off the Record,
108.

“I was somewhat nervous”: HST to MET and MJT, February 13, 1947, HSTL.

“despite all the denying”: West, 91.

Lilienthal nomination hearings: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. II, 141–42.

“far from anger or temper”: Ibid., 141.

“I believe in”: Ibid., Appendix B, 646–48.

HST supports Lilienthal: Ibid., 144.

Taft opposes nomination:
Time,
February 24, 1947.

“Courage: What is it?”: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. II, 160.

“Now Mary, don’t you work too hard”: HST to MET and MJT, February 27, 1947, HSTL.

Lincoln McVeigh reported rumors:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 99.

Greece a “ripe plum”: Ibid.

“little hope of independent survival”: Quoted in Donovan,
Conflict and Crisis,
277.

“the only one in Government”: Gaddis, 346, note.

“It is not alarmist”: Quoted in Pogue, 164.

“The Soviet Union was playing”: Acheson, 219.

Vandenberg told the President: Ibid.

“and I expressed my emphatic”:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 103.

Mexico City visit:
Newsweek,
March 17, 1947.

Clifford memo: appears in full in Krock,
Memoirs,
Appendix, 419–82.

“The impact of having it all”: George Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.