“a novel idea in those days”: Thomas E. Dewey, Twenty Against the Underworld (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), p. 139.
“He gave you the impression”: Smith, Thomas E. Dewey, p. 121.
“Gentlemen . . . there will be a lot”: Ibid., p. 135.
“The mobs had a tremendous”: Dewey, Twenty Against the Underworld, p. 5.
“They did not look like cops”: Ibid., pp. 158–59.
“Gangsters Split Girls’ Tongues”: Headlines from ibid., p. 219.
“the meanest poultry racketeer”: Ibid. Quotes describing gangsters are from captions in photo insert.
“Hines Guilty”: Ibid.
“You made a glorious run”: Arthur Vandenberg to Thomas Dewey, November 11, 1938, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 10, Box 44, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.
“I have confidence in the”: “Dewey Opens Drive for Presidency on Recovery Issue,” New York Times, December 2, 1939.
“thrown his diaper into”: “Harold L. Ickes,” Washington Post, March 8, 1948.
“You are getting as much publicity”: Smith, Thomas E. Dewey, p. 276.
“Dewey would always take on”: Brownell, Advising Ike, p. 47.
“How can the Republican Party”: “Thomas E. Dewey, 68, Dies,” Washington Post, March 17, 1971.
“one of the most vitriolic speeches”: “Dewey Calls F.D.R.’s Record ‘Desperately Bad,’” Boston Daily Globe, September 26, 1944.
“I still think he’s a son of a bitch”: Farris, Almost President, p. 11.
“The Truman administration is”: “Report of Herbert Brownell Jr., Chairman to the Republican National Committee,” April 1, 1946, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 2, Box 38.
“It has been wickedly said”: “Matter of Fact: Governor Dewey Grows,” Washington Post, November 4, 1946.
“As long ago as Philadelphia”: “Hotel Confab Picks Dewey’s Veep,” Salt Lake City Tribune, April 6, 1952.
6. “It Is a Total ‘War of Nerves’”
“Our nation is faced today”: “Eisenhower, Spaatz, and Nimitz Call on the United States to Retain Strength,” New York Times, August 30, 1947.
“I think it’s one of the”: David McCullough interview with Clark Clifford, quoted in McCullough, Truman (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), p. 554.
“the most disturbing statement ever”: Bruce Robellet Kuniholm, The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994), p. 407.
“They were shockers”: Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969), p. 217.
“very convinced . . . that there”: Robert J. Donovan, Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945–1948 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996), p. 278.
“The next eighteen months look”: James Forrestal to Charles Thomas, February 24, 1947, in Forrestal, The Forrestal Diaries, edited by Walter Millis (New York: Viking, 1951), p. 240.
“patient but deadly struggle”: George F. Kennan, “Telegraphic Message from Moscow of February 22, 1946,” excerpted in Kennan, Memoirs 1925–1950 (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1967), p. 550.
“Development of atomic weapons”: Clark Clifford and George Elsey, “American Relations with the Soviet Union” (“Clifford-Elsey Report”), September 24, 1946, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/report-american-relations-soviet-union-clark-clifford-clifford-elsey-report?documentid=NA&pagenumber=1.
“If it leaked it would blow”: Clark Clifford, with Richard Holbrooke, Counsel to the President: A Memoir (New York: Random House, 1991), p. 123.
“This was, I believe, the turning”: Harry S. Truman, Memoirs, vol. 2, Years of Trial and Hope (New York: Doubleday, 1956), p. 106.
“we prepare for war”: Harry Truman to Bess Truman, September 30, 1947, Papers of Harry S. Truman Pertaining to Family, Business, and Personal Affairs, Box 16, Truman archives.
“It is not alarmist to say”: George Marshall, “Statement to Congressional Leaders, Top Secret,” February 27, 1947, George C. Marshall Foundation, https://www.marshallfoundation.org/library/digital-archive/6-029-statement-congressional-leaders-february-27-1947/.
“The choice . . . is between acting”: Ibid.
“Mr. President, if you will say”: Acheson, Present at the Creation, p. 219.
“All . . . were aware”: Ibid., p. 220.
“the opening gun in a campaign”: John Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), p. 350.
“The gravity of the situation”: President Harry S. Truman’s Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/56/special-message-congress-greece-and-turkey-truman-doctrine.
“We may agree the next time”: Ed Cray, General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000), p. 605.
“Europe was recovering slowly”: Forrest C. Pogue, George C. Marshall: Statesman 1945–1959 (New York: Viking, 1987), p. 196.
“Disintegrating forces are”: George C. Marshall radio address, April 28, 1947, excerpted at US Department of State, Office of the Historian, https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1947v03/d133.
“without delay . . . Avoid trivia”: McCullough, Truman, p. 561.
“a declaration of war on”: “House Votes $400,000,000 Aid to Greece and Turkey,” Los Angeles Times, May 10, 1947.
“The entire fabric of European”: George Marshall, Marshall Plan Speech, June 5, 1947, George C. Marshall Foundation, https://www.marshallfoundation.org/marshall/the-marshall-plan/marshall-plan-speech/.
“Nations, if not continents, had to”: Harry S. Truman, Memoirs, vol. 2, p. 110.
“We now apparently confront the”: Arthur Vandenberg to Robert Taft, excerpted in Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr., ed., The Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952), p. 374.
“no confidence whatever”: Robert Taft to Grier Bartol, November 19, 1947, The Papers of Robert Taft, edited by Clarence E. Wunderlin Jr., vol. 3, 1945–1948 (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2003), p. 333.
DON’T ARM TYRANNY: Event description from news reports, notably “Wallace Sees U.N. as Sole Peace Hope,” New York Times, April 1, 1947.
“Unconditional aid”: Ibid.
“The world is devastated and hungry”: “Wallace Suggests Britain Take Lead,” New York Times, April 12, 1947.
“covers Wallace like a cloak”: “Wallace Prosecution Asked as Congress Furor Mounts,” New York Times, April 15, 1947.
“treasonable utterances”: “Wallace Defies Critics in Senate,” New York Times, April 14, 1947.
“only one circumstance”: Ibid.
“in good standing of the Democratic”: Dialogue from transcript of the President’s News Conference, April 10, 1947, Public Papers, Truman archives.
“I shall be campaigning in 1948”: “U.S. Leading World to War, Wallace Says,” Washington Post, April 12, 1947.
“filling Chicago Stadium for the first”: “Report on Henry Wallace,” May 22, 1947, Wallace FBI file.
“a road to ruthless imperialism”: “Storm Grows over Wallace Aid Attacks,” Washington Post, April 13, 1947.
“hatred of Russia . . . an imperialist”: “Churchill Runs U.S. Policy, Says Wallace,” Washington Post, October 11, 1948.
“crypto-Communist”: “Churchill Attacks Wallace for Crypto-Communist Plot,” Christian Science Monitor, April 18, 1947.
“If it is traitorous to believe”: John C. Culver and John Hyde, American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace (New York:
