Truman (183 page)

“one of the few great acts”: Ibid., December 1, 1947.

“push the Jews”: Weisberger interview with Clark Clifford,
American Heritage,
December 28, 1976.

Forrestal report to HST:
Forrestal Diaries,
March 4, 1948, 386.

“Things look black”: HST to MT, March 3, 1948, Truman,
Letters from Father,
108.

“a new tenseness”:
Forrestal Diaries,
387.

“lifted me right out”: Smith,
Lucius D. Clay,
466–67.

to move atomic bombs: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. I, 302.

“The Jewish pressure”:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 160.

Niles grew so emotional: Letter from Joseph Alsop to Martin Sommers, June 1, 1948, LC.

either “give in”: Ibid.

“So I called him ‘Cham’ ”: Film Collection, HSTL.

They had met secretly:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 161.

“You can bank on us”: Daniels,
The Man of Independence,
318.

“I was extremely happy”: Weizmann,
Trial and Error,
459.

Kennan’s paper: Donovan, 370.

“playing with fire”:
Forrestal Diaries,
373.

“the political situation”: Lash,
Eleanor: The Years Alone,
127.

no “bending”: Pogue, 361.

“On five occasions”: Clark Clifford interview with Jonathan Daniels, October 26, 1949.

“pro-Arab”: Loy Henderson, Oral History, HSTL.

“I pointed out that the views”: Ibid.

“Oh, hell, I’m leaving”: Ibid.

Frank Goldman call to Jacobson: Kansas City
Times,
May 13, 1965.

Connelly warned Jacobson: Adler,
Roots in a Moving Stream,
210.

“always had a brother’s interest”: Kansas City
Times,
May 13, 1965.

HST suddenly tense: Ibid.

“In all the years of our friendship”: “Two Presidents and a Haberdasher—1948,”
American Jewish Archives,
April 1968.

“disrespectful and mean”: Ibid.

“Harry, all your life”: Ibid.

HST reaction to Jacobson: Ibid.

Jacobson has drink: Kansas City
Times,
May 13, 1965.

“It is the most serious situation”: HST to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 16, 1948,
Off the Record,
126.

“It was better to do that”: Ayers Diary, March 16, 1948, HSTL.

Joint Session speech: PP, HST, March 17, 1948, 182–86.

“And when he left my office”:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 161.

HST and Weizmann reached “understanding”: Ibid.

“A land of milk and honey”:
The New York Times,
March 21, 1948.

“whimsical and cynical action”: Letter from Tucson Jewish Community Council, undated, White House Correspondence File, HSTL.

“vacillating”: Letter from Democratic Council, undated, Whittier, California, White House Correspondence File, HSTL.

“This change can mean”: Judge P. Tinley to HST, March 25, 1948, HSTL.

“Oh, how could you stoop”: Samuel A. Sloan to HST, March 19, 1948, HSTL.

“Black Friday”: “Two Presidents and a Haberdasher—1948.”

“There wasn’t one”: Ibid.

Weizmann certain what HST had meant: Adler, 211.

Jacobson must not forget: “Two Presidents and a Haberdasher—1948.”

“This morning I find”: HST Diary, March 20, 1948,
Off the Record,
127.

“the striped pants boys”: HST to MJT, March 21, 1948, HSTL.

“Truman was in his office”: Clark Clifford interview with Jonathan Daniels, October 26, 1949; Daniels interview notes, HSTL.

“The President’s statement”: Ayers Diary, March 20, 1948, HSTL.

“the wisest course”:
The News York Times,
March 21, 1948.

“This gets us nowhere”: Quoted in Steinberg, The
Man from Missouri,
307.

“Send final draft”:
Foreign Relations of the United States.
Vol. V:
The Far East, South Asia and Africa,
645.

“striped pants conspirators”: HST to MJT, March 21, 1948, HSTL.

“prejudice the character”: PP, HST, March 25, 1948, 190, 192.

Eleanor Roosevelt resignation: Lash, 130.

“The choice for our people”: Weizmann, 474.

“very strongly”: “Two Presidents and a Haberdasher—1948.”

“the President looked worn”: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. II, 320.

“It is a scream”: HST to MJT, April 8, 1948, HSTL.

Gallup Poll: Gallup,
The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion
1935–71, 727.

“When he [Truman] vetoed”:
The New York Times,
April 4, 1948.

“You will be addressing all of us”: Weisberger interview with Clifford.

“I want you to know”: George C. Marshall to HST, May 8, 1948, HSTL.

Marshall speech: As reported in Frank McNaughton Papers, December 18, 1948, HSTL.

May 12, 1948, meeting: Clay,
General of the Army,
658, 661.

“As I talked”: Address by Clark Clifford, American Ditchley Foundation, April, 5, 1984; Clark Clifford, author’s interview.

“This is just straight politics”: Ibid.

“General, he is here”: Ibid.

“I had really prepared!”: Clifford, author’s interview.

“everything this country should represent”: Ibid.

“Behold, I have set the land”: Clifford, letter to the author.

“No matter what the State Department”: Clark Clifford interview with Jonathan Daniels, October 26, 1949, HSTL.

“the sharpest rebuke
ever”
: Clifford, author’s interview.

“the great one of the age”: HST appointment sheet, February 18, 1947,
Off the Record,
109.

“That brought the meeting”: Clifford, author’s interview.

“righteous goddamn Baptist”: Clark Clifford interview with Jonathan Daniels, October 26, 1949, HSTL.

“didn’t know his ass”: Ibid.

“That was rough as a cob”: Clifford, author’s interview.

“I will cross that bridge”: PP, HST, May 13, 1948, 253.

“Marshall was the greatest asset”: Clifford, author’s interview.

Lovett would have to persuade: Ibid.

Marshall called HST: Ibid.

“That is all we need”: Ibid.

“This is very unusual”: Ibid.

name of new country left blank: Ibid.

reaction of American delegation:
The New York Times,
May 16, 1948.

“temporary, unofficial ambassador”: Adler, 212.

“There is a great deal to be said”: Washington
Star,
May 16, 1948.

“The difficulty with many career”:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 165.

“God put you in your mother’s womb”: Quoted in Steinberg, 308.

“In my opinion”: Henderson, Oral History, HSTL.

Marshall never spoke to Clifford again: Pogue, 377.

“I told him that it was”: Isaacson and Thomas,
The Wise Men,
433,

Crestline, Ohio: PP, HST, June 4, 1948, 284.

Omaha stop: Ayers Diary, June 7, 1948, HSTL.

“I don’t give a damn”: Edward McKim, Oral History, HSTL.

“President Truman was at his best”: Omaha
Morning World-Herald,
June 8, 1948.

“walled-in”: Krock,
Memoirs,
242.

“It almost overwhelms me”: PP, HST, June 6, 1948, 288.

“My goodness!”: Ibid., June 8, 1948, 303.

Butte, Montana, stop: Idaho
Daily Statesman,
June 9, 1948.

“I am sorry I had gone to bed”: New York
Sun,
June 9, 1948.

“down to Berkeley”: Donovan, 400.

“They told me at a little town”: HST to MJT, June 8, 1948, HSTL.

Carey Airport gaffe: Montana
Standard,
June 9, 1948.

“I have been in politics”: PP, HST, June 8, 1948, 301.

a many-versed song: Kansas City
Star,
March 23, 1969.

“a spectacle of himself”: Steinberg, 312.

Eugene, Oregon, stop: PP, HST, June 11, 1948, 329.

“about two acres of people”: Ibid., June 14, 1948, 348.

“You know, this Congress”: Ibid., June 10, 1948, 314.

“blackguarding Congress”: Redding,
Inside the Democratic Party,
178.

telegrams to mayors: Ibid.

Berkeley-commencement address: PP, HST, June 12, 1948, 336–40,

“Our policy will continue”: Ibid., 340.

“they clung to the roofs”: Los Angeles
Times,
June 15, 1948.

HST jabbed his forefinger: Donovan, 401.

June 18 return to Washington:
Time,
June 28, 1948.

a “gone goose”: Ibid.

Dewey acceptance speech:
Time,
July 5, 1948.

“We stay in Berlin”:
Forrestal Diaries,
454–55.

“We stay in Berlin”: Pogue, 301.

“we were nose to nose”: Bradley and Blair,
A General’s Life,
481.

“had no direct role whatever”: George Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.

“A ball game or two”: HST Diary, June 18, 1948,
Off the Record,
140.

“I am not a quitter”: Krock, 241.

“You have the choice”: Ickes quoted in Donovan, 389.

decided it was time for Eisenhower: Hartmann,
Truman and the 80th Congress,
186.

Eisenhower did not want nomination: Steinberg, 309–10.

Jimmy Roosevelt wired: Goulden,
The Best Years,
1945–1950, 381.

“a hard and possibly losing fight”: Ross, 113.

“I am simply aghast”: Lilienthal,
Journals
, Vol. II, 378–79.

“All right, let him go”: Ayers Diary, July 6, 1948, HSTL.

“double-crossers all”: HST Diary, July 6, 1948,
Off the Record,
141.

“I don’t think he would be a candidate”: HST to James W. Gerard, April 27, 1948, HSTL.

Krock story: Krock,
Memoirs,
242.

Pepper proposing Eisenhower draft:
Newsweek,
July 19, 1948.

“I wanted to tell you”: Krock, 243.

“In a telephone conference”: Ibid.

“final and complete”:
Newsweek,
July 19, 1948.

“Truman, Harry Truman”: Goldman,
The Crucial Decade
—
and After,
83.

“no time for politics as usual”: Ross, 115.

“None of us”: Phillips, 218.

’We got the wrong rigs”:
The New York Times,
July 12, 1948.

“You could cut the gloom”: Barkley,
That Reminds Me,
200.

Douglas wished to stay on Court: HST Diary, July 12, 1948,
Off the Record,
141.

“I stuck my neck”: Ayers Diary, July 13, 1948, HSTL.

“But if memory does not betray”: Redding, 188–89.

If Barkley was what convention wanted:
Newsweek,
July 26, 1948.

Barkley gone to bed: HST Diary, July 13, 1948,
Off the Record,
142.

Barkley never told HST he wanted to be VP: Ross, 119.

“I don’t want it passed”: Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
12.

“Talking about the vice-presidency”: Ayers Diary, July 13, 1948, HSTL.

“A Negro alternate from St. Louis”: HST Diary, July 13, 1948,
Off the Record,
142.

“sellout” to states’ rights: Ross, 121.

“We were inherently stronger”: Douglas,
In the Fullness of Time,
137.

“Young man, that’s just what”: Goulden, 385.

“There are those who say”: Ross, 125.

southern “walkout” would destroy: Hardeman and Bacon,
Rayburn: A Biography,
337.

as “crackpots”: HST Diary, July 14, 1948,
Off the Record,
143.

“No privacy sure enough”: Ibid.

“Hard to hear”: Ibid.

“a very agreeable visit”: Barkley, 203.

“an interesting and instructive evening”: HST Diary, July 14, 1948,
Off the Record,
143.

“hot, horrible night”: Tom Evans, Oral History, HSTL.

“They did what you do”: Elsey, author’s interview.

“Harry Truman’s a goddamn liar”: Hardeman and Bacon, 338.

“Senator Barkley and I”: PP, HST, July 15, 1948, 406.

“Our task is to fill”: Smith, 500,

“Now it is time for us”: PP, HST, July 15, 1948, 406.

“Everybody knows that I recommended”: Ibid., 408.

“He walked out there”: Clifford, author’s interview.

“They sensed”: Lerner,
Actions and Passions,
233.

“Of course, it was politics”: Daniels, 356.

“devilishly astute”: Martin,
My First Fifty Years in Politics,
178.

“Arrived in Washington”: HST Diary, July 15, 1948,
Off the Record,
144.

“to reduce us to the status”: Ross, 131.

“the segregation of the races”: Ibid.

“but Truman really means it”: Steinberg, 315.

“on the basis of interest”: Ross, 158.

“We stand against the kings”:
Time,
August 2, 1948.

Forrestal and atomic bomb: HST to EWT, July 23, 1948,
Dear Bess,
555.

“It is hot and humid”: HST Diary, July 19, 1948,
Off the Record,
145.

“We’ll stay in Berlin”: Ibid.

“If we wished to remain”:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 124.

a “very big operation”: Davidson,
The Berlin Blockade,
105.

“We were proud of our Air Force”: Quoted in Tusa,
The Berlin Airlift,
167.

“But every expert knows”: Quoted in Davidson, 125.

“My muttonhead Secretary”: HST to EWT, July 23, 1948,
Dear Bess,
555.

“There is considerable political”: Memorandum by James H. Rowe, Jr., Miscellaneous Historical Documents, HSTL.

“I am going through a terrible”: HST to WC, July 10, 1948, Truman,
Letters from Father,
110.

“The President greeted us rather solemnly”: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. II, 388–89.

“This is no time”: Ibid., 391.

“If what worried the President”: Ibid.

Truman held Forrestal:
Forrestal Diaries,
461.