Truman (184 page)

seemed lately unable to “take hold”: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. II, 386.

“I went down the river”: HST to MJT, July 26, 1948, HSTL.

“No, we’re not going to give”: Quoted in Donovan, 411.

“They sure are in a stew”: HST to EWT, July 23, 1948,
Dear Bess,
66.

“For a number of years”: Phillips, 369.

“a ‘red herring’ “: PP, HST, August 5, 1948, 433.

“Entirely”: Ibid., August 12, 1948, 438.

floor of Margaret’s room: HST to MJT, August 10, 1948, HSTL.

“Can you imagine?”: Truman,
Bess W. Truman,
329.

“Margaret’s sitting room”: HST to MJT, August 10, 1948, HSTL.

“old Abe’s bed”: Ibid.

14. Fighting Chance

“It will be the greatest”: HST to MJT, October 5, 1948, HSTL.

“There were no deep-hid schemes”: Ross, “How Truman Did It,”
Collier’s,
December 24, 1948.

“It’s going to be tough”: Ibid.

“I have a terrible feeling”: HST Diary, September 13, 1948, in Ferrell, ed.,
Off the Record,
149.

“Every grade crossing”:
The New Yorker,
October 9, 1948.

“I’m going to give ’em hell”:
Time,
September 27, 1948.

Gallup Poll: Gallup,
The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 1935–1971,
757.

“My whole inclination”:
Time,
September 13, 1948.

“Cadillac Square”: Matt Connelly, Oral History, HSTL.

“You remember the big boom”: PP, HST, September 18, 1948, 504.

plow the straightest furrows: Ibid., 506.

“You stayed at home in 1946”: Ibid., 501.

“Understand me, when I speak”: Ibid., September 20, 1948, 518.

“Selfish men have always”: Ibid., September 21, 1948, 531.

“sharp speeches”: Donovan,
Conflict and Crisis,
425.

These “little speeches”: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”

“Oh, I wish my grandfather”: PP, HST, September 21, 1948, 531.

“They tell me [he said at Mojave]”: Ibid., September 23, 1948, 554.

“I’m here on a serious mission”: Ibid., September 22, 1948, 544.

“In 1946, you know”: Ibid., September 20, 1948, 512, 514.

“Give ’em hell”: Clark Clifford, author’s interview.

“I never gave anybody hell”:
The New York Times,
December 27, 1972.

“It will be a picture”:
The New Yorker,
October 9, 1948.

Los Angeles speech: PP, HST, September 24, 1948, 559.

“We are not quite holding our own”: Tusa,
The Berlin Airlift,
235.

“That’s good”: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”

a “Research Division”: George Elsey, Oral History, HSTL.

“He gives every appearance”: Clifford, author’s interview.

the “evil forces”:
Time,
October 11, 1948.

HST never mentioned Dewey: Clifford, author’s interview.

“If you wanted anything”:
The New Yorker,
October 16, 1948.

“sort of rube reputation”: Daniels,
The Man of Independence,
358.

Description of Dewey campaign:
The New Yorker,
October 16, 1948.

“Tonight we enter upon a campaign”: Ross,
The Loneliest Campaign,
193.

“We cannot win without”: Quoted in Donovan, 420.

“Smile, governor”: Smith,
Thomas E. Dewey and His Times,
26.

“You have to know Mr. Dewey well”: Ross,
The Loneliest Campaign,
32.

“like a man who has been”:
The New Yorker,
October 16, 1948.

“It is written in the stars”: Smith, 17.

carnal relations: Ibid., 34.

“When you’re leading”: Ibid., 30.

“We always asked them”: Ross,
The Loneliest Campaign,
166.

“How long is Dewey”:
Life,
October 25, 1948.

“get down in the gutter”: Quoted in Smith, 515.

“Isn’t it harder in politics?”:
New Republic,
November 1, 1948.

“We resurrected the president’s”: Sullivan,
The Bureau,
44.

“The tragic fact is”:
Time,
October 4, 1948.

“We’ll have no thought police”: Quoted in Smith, 508.

“We hit Salt Lake City”: Quoted in Ross,
The Loneliest Campaign,
207.

“Then we went into Texas”: PP, HST, September 29, 1948, 629.

“He is good on the back”: Quoted in Hardeman and Bacon,
Rayburn: A Biography,
340.

“they’d shoot Truman”: Quoted in Steinberg, 325.

“an eloquence close to”: Daniels, 362.

“Our government is made up”: PP, HST, September 26, 1948, 210.

“I am going over to Bonham”: Ibid., September 27, 1948, 591.

“So in making their speeches”: Ibid., 589.

“Some things are worth fighting for”: Ibid., 593, 595.

“They came in droves”: Truman,
Souvenir,
231.

“I know every man, woman, and child”: Hardeman and Bacon, 341.

“Shut the door, Beauford”: Quoted in Truman,
Harry S. Truman,
37.

“A great many honors”: Baruch,
The Public Years,
399.

“one jump ahead of the sheriff’: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”

“There is nothing like that”: PP, HST, September 30, 1948, 650.

“Now, whatever you do”: Ibid., October 1, 1948, 664.

“The early morning haze”: Quoted in Goulden,
The Best Years 1945–1950,
399.

“We made about a hundred and forty”: HST to MJT, October 5, 1948, HSTL.

“classic unities of politics”: Redding,
Inside the Democratic Party,
202.

“Another hell of a day”: HST Diary, September 14, 1948,
Off the Record,
149.

selections from Dewey speeches: Goulden, 400.

HST campaign movie: Redding, 254.

“He paused dramatically”: Barkley,
That Reminds Me,
204.

“If we could only get Stalin”:
Memoirs,
Vol. II, 215.

“every possible precaution”: Ibid., 216.

“There is much confusion”: Ayers Diary, October 6–7, 1948, HSTL.

“He got up and went out”: Daniels, 29.

“If Harry Truman would just”: Goulden, 414.

Dewey with blind drawn: Smith, 536.

“I grew up on a farm”: PP, HST, October 11, 1948, 737.

If HST called Bess the Boss; Truman,
Bess W. Truman,
330.

“If you don’t want to go”: PP, HST, October 11, 1948, 736–37.

Willard, Ohio, stop: Willard
Times;
Joseph Dush, author’s interview; materials supplied by Harlene Staptf Palkuti.

“I have had the most wonderful”: PP, HST, October 11, 1948, 740.

“I have lived a long time”: Ibid., 743, 747.

“And there it was!”: Clifford, author’s interview.

“So I walked in”: Ibid.

“I was with Truman”: Douglas,
In the Fullness of Time,
138.

“I just wonder tonight”: PP, HST, October 12, 1948, 760.

“Now, I call on all liberals”: Ibid., October 13, 1948, 774.

“a lot of surprised pollsters”:
Time,
October 25, 1948.

“I think he’s doing pretty well”: Ross,
The Loneliest Campaign,
215.

“The only way to handle Truman”: Patterson,
Mr. Republican. A Biography of Robert A. Taft,
424–25.

“That’s the first lunatic”:
Time,
October 25, 1948.

Boston
Post
editorial: October 27, 1948.

“If you’re winning”: Clifford, author’s interview.

“Strain seemed to make him”: Daniels, 361.

“He was not putting on”: Elsey, author’s interview, and Oral History, HSTL.

“For years afterward”: Clifford, Oral History, HSTL.

“We’ve got them on the run”: HST to MJT, October 20, 1948, HSTL.

“The airlift will be continued”: Tusa, 245.

“Say you don’t look so good!”: PP, HST, October 23, 1948, 839.

“The newspapers had convinced them”: Douglas, 138.

attack on Dewey: Ross,
The Loneliest Campaign,
235.

“An element of desperation”: Clifford, author’s interview.

“They have scattered reckless abuse”: Smith, 536.

“The confetti, ticker-tape”:
The New York Times,
October 29, 1948.

“There is one place”: Quoted in Ross,
The Loneliest Campaign,
237.

“Such a weak and vacillating”: Lash,
Eleanor: The Years Alone,
153.

“There never has been a campaign”:
The New York Times,
November 1, 1948.

“I became President”: PP, HST, October 30, 1948, 934.

“pullet poll”:
Life,
November 15, 1948.

“Were it not for all”: Ayers Diary, November 1, 1948, HSTL.

“We all, of course, stayed awake”: Gerard McAnn, author’s interview.

Maloney and his men: Smith, 40.

“We waited and waited”: Sue Gentry, author’s interview.

“We
couldn’t
believe it”: Ibid.

“What a night”: Truman,
Souvenir,
242.

“And all of a sudden”: Jim Rowley, author’s interview.

“his first case of nerves”: Letter from Jerome K. Walsh to Morris J. Ernst, undated, HSTL.

“He just seemed the same old”: Lyman Field, author’s interview.

“He displayed neither tension”: Letter from Jerome K. Walsh to Morris J. Ernst, undated, HSTL.

“Thank you, thank you”:
Time,
November 8, 1948.

Bankhead telegram: Goulden, 421.

“I think the mistake was”: Clifford, author’s interview.

“shook the bones”: Baltimore
Sun,
November 7, 1948.

“The farm vote switched”: Thomas Dewey to Henry Luce, undated, L. C.

“You’ve got to give the little man”: Vandenberg,
Private Papers,
460.

Taft comment: Steinberg, 332.

Republican Policy Committee Report: December 17, 1948, HSTL.

“Labor Did It”: Ross,
The Loneliest Campaign,
255.

“The bear got us”: Smith, 543.

“Far from costing Dewey”: Quoted in Phillips, 250–51.

“I couldn’t have been more wrong”:
Life,
November 15, 1948.

“What’s the matter with that fellow”:
The New York Times,
November 28, 1948.

“I kept reading”: Goldman,
The Crucial Decade,
87.

“But when voting time came”: Ibid.

“the common man’s man”:
Life,
November 15, 1948.

“It seemed to have been”: Donovan, 438.

“There was personal humiliation”:
New Republic,
November 15, 1948.

“There has been a danger”: Ayers Diary, November 4, 1948, HSTL.

Luce memo: November 11, 1948,
Time-Warner
archives.

“His personality was against him”: Henry Luce memorandum, November 5, 1948, Ibid.

“I think the press”: T. S. Matthews memorandum to Henry Luce, November 4, 1948, Ibid.

“Of course, we did not intentionally”: J. J. Thorndike, Jr., memorandum to Henry Luce, November 5, 1948, Ibid.

90 percent of the credit: Hardeman and Bacon, 342.

“You have put over”: George C. Marshall to HST, November 4, 1948, HSTL.

“I think that Harry Truman grew”: Ross, “How Truman Did It.”

“I think Dewey’s whole campaign”: Clifford, author’s interview.

“no desire to crow”: HST to the Washington
Post,
November 6, 1948, HSTL.

Part Five

15. Iron Man

“Clearly he was conscious”: Washington
Evening Star,
January 20, 1949.

“his day of days”: Truman,
Souvenir,
255.

“
It is the President’s desire
”: Seale,
The President’s House,
Vol. II, 1027.

“I have the job”: Washington
Post,
January 20, 1949;
Time,
January 31, 1949.

State of the Union message: PP, HST, January 5, 1949, 1.

H. V. Kaltenborn impersonation: Ibid., January 19, 1949, 110.

“I was not in any way elated”: Ibid.

“Wonderful, wonderful”: Washington
Post,
January 21, 1949.

Battery D reunion: Washington
Evening Star,
January 20, 1949.

prayer service: Washington
Post,
January 21, 1949.

inaugural address: PP, HST, January 20, 1949, 112–16.

“How strange”: Washington
Evening Star,
January 20, 1949.

“The clear sunlight”:
The New York Times,
January 21, 1949.

“At the reviewing stand”: J. B. West, author’s interview.

“There never was a country”: Payne,
Report on America,
p. 3.

“The parade was the most fun”: Lilienthal,
Journals,
Vol. II, 448.

“the fellow who was having”: Washington
Post,
January 22, 1949.

“It can almost be stated”: Bohlen,
Witness to History,
284.

“fifty percent better”: Lilienthal,
Journals
, Vol. II, 527.

“He looks more relaxed”: Ibid., 463–64.

“He was
great
down in Key West!”: James Rowley, Jr., author’s interview.

“The President is as close to being”:
Time,
May 16, 1949.

“He won’t take hold”: Lilienthal
Journals
, Vol. II, 386.

“No commentator”:
Time,
March 7, 1949.

HST fair with Forrestal:
Forrestal Diaries,
551.

“The best boss I have ever known”: Truman,
Bess W. Truman,
345.

“a man who, while he reflects”:
Forrestal Diaries
, 529.

“the mess we are in”:
Eisenhower Diaries,
152–53.

his “baffled” look: Washington
Post,
January 21, 1949.

Forrestal was insane: Pearson,
Diaries, 1949–1959,
42.

“a very sick man”: Krock,
Memoirs
, 253–57.