“a job for you in world”: Robert H. Ferrell, Harry S. Truman: A Life (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994), p. 166.
“You know . . . this whole”: Diary entry of Henry A. Wallace, August 3, 1944, in Wallace, The Price of Vision, p. 373.
“He is a small opportunistic man”: Ibid., p. 374.
“I had no illusions about”: Reminiscences of Henry Agard Wallace, Columbia University Center for Oral History, p. 5115.
“We all had grandiose ideas”: Abt, Advocate and Activist, p. 148.
“I am going to cast my lot”: Dialogue from “Singing Cowboy Taylor Lines Up with Wallace,” Los Angeles Times, February 24, 1948.
10. “There’ll Be No Compromise”
“Never in our history have”: Longhand note, April 1948, President’s Secretary’s Files, Box 283, Truman archives.
“one of this century’s most famous”: “Clark Clifford Ends Mystery over Memo,” Washington Post, May 22, 1991.
“The basic premise of this”: All quotations from this document come from Memorandum for the President, November 19, 1947, “The Politics of 1948,” Research Files, 1948 Election Campaign File, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/memo-clark-clifford-harry-s-truman.
“It was clearly apparent to all”: George M. Elsey Oral History Interview (transcript), 1964–70, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 107.
“controversial as hell”: George McKee Elsey, An Unplanned Life: A Memoir by George McKee Elsey (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005), p. 158.
“This is the most important period”: Diary entry of David Lilienthal, January 2, 1948, The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, vol. 2, The Atomic Energy Years 1945–1950 (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 279.
“the essential human rights”: Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, January 7, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/2/annual-message-congress-state-union-1.
“almost a half an hour of complete”: “By the Way with Bill Henry,” Los Angeles Times, January 11, 1948.
“success in ’48!”: Elsey, An Unplanned Life, p. 159.
“a rich present for every”: Robert Taft, Address on the ABC Radio Network, January 8, 1948, in The Papers of Robert A. Taft, vol. 3, pp. 373–74.
“Murphy and . . . Ross were nervous”: Elsey, An Unplanned Life, p. 160.
“The founders of the United States”: Harry S. Truman, Special Message to the Congress on Civil Rights, February 2, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers?month=2&endyear=4&searchterm=&yearstart=All&yearend=All.
“We have been betrayed”: “Dixie Leaders Warn Truman on Race Stand,” Washington Post, February 8, 1948.
“white supremacy”: Ibid.
“in the strongest possible language”: “Southern Governors Name PAC to Demand Supremacy Concessions,” Hartford Courant, February 9, 1948.
“We may as well have a”: Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson, Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond (New York: Public Affairs, 2005), p. 109.
“intrudes into the sacred”: Ibid., p. 107.
“un-American”: “S.C. House Condemns Rights Proposals,” Washington Post, February 13, 1948.
“The South can be considered safely”: Memorandum for the President, November 19, 1947, “The Politics of 1948,” Truman archives.
“she might be seated next”: “Southern Democrats Cancel Dinner Plans,” Washington Post, February 19, 1948.
“battalions of the press”: Redding, Inside the Democratic Party, p. 135.
“Will you now”: Ibid., p. 136.
“There’ll be no compromise”: Ibid., p. 173.
“has sent a shock throughout”: Harry S. Truman, Special Message to Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe, March 17, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers?month=3&endyear=4&searchterm=&yearstart=All&yearend=All.
“For many months”: General Lucius Clay to Lieutenant General Stephen J. Chamberlin, March 5, 1948, The Papers of General Lucius D. Clay, Germany 1945–1949, edited by Jean Edward Smith (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974), p. 568.
“warmonger”: “Vishinsky Screams ‘War Mong’ at Dulles in Turbulent UN Session,” Atlanta Constitution, September 19, 1947.
“It is the most serious situation”: Harry Truman to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 16, 1948, Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman, edited by Robert H. Ferrell (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1980), p. 126.
“Since the close of hostilities”: Harry S. Truman, Special Message to Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe, March 17, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives.
“It is undoubtedly the first”: General Lucius Clay to General Omar Bradley, March 31, 1948, quoted in Ann Tusa and John Tusa, The Berlin Airlift (New York: Atheneum, 1988), p. xiii.
“The possibility must be”: Central Intelligence Agency, “Possibility of Direct Soviet Military Action During 1948,” April 2, 1948, President’s Secretary’s Files, Box 177, Truman archives.
“People were blaming the”: Oral History Interview with Eben A. Ayers (transcript), 1967, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 267.
“Unless immediate action is”: Memorandum by the President’s Special Counsel (Clark Clifford), “Proposed Program on the Palestine Problem,” March 6, 1948, Clark Clifford papers, Box 13, Truman archives.
“Unless the Palestine matter”: Memorandum for the President, November 19, 1947, Clark Clifford to Harry S. Truman, Research Files, 1948 Election Campaign File, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/memo-clark-clifford-harry-s-truman.
“The State Dept pulled the rug”: Diary entries of Harry Truman, March 18–19, 1948, Post Presidential File, Box 643, Truman archives.
“Can you come right down?”: Daniels, The Man of Independence, p. 318.
“as disturbed as I have ever”: McCullough, Truman, p. 611.
“At this time, the President’s”: “Prestige of President Is Vital Problem Now,” New York Times, April 4, 1948.
“All of this is causing”: Memorandum by the President’s Special Counsel (Clifford) to President Truman, March 8, 1948, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, vol. 5, part 2.
“Of all the meetings I ever”: Clark Clifford, Counsel to the President, p. 3.
“the greatest living American”: Ibid.
“I noticed thunderclouds”: Ibid.
“Mr. President . . . I thought this”: Ibid., p. 12.
“It is obviously designed”: Ibid.
“Everyone in the room was stunned”: Ibid., p. 13.
“That . . . is all we need”: McCullough, Truman, p. 618.
“Mr. President, will the United”: Transcript of the President’s News Conference, May 13, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/100/statement-president-announcing-recognition-state-israel.
“This Government has been”: Statement by the President Announcing Recognition of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives.
“The charge that domestic politics”: Clifford, Counsel to the President, p. 24.
“I want to say to you that”: Remarks at the Young Democrats Dinner, May 14, 1948, President’s Secretary’s Files, Box 74, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/101/remarks-young-democrats-dinner.
11. “I Will Not Accept the Political Support of Henry Wallace and His Communists”
“The people have only to”: “Dewey Announces He Is Ready to Run if Party Picks Him,” New York Times, January 17, 1948.
“choice of cocktails, highballs”: Menu, Thomas E. Dewey
