“further evidence as to the”: “The 1946 Elections: A Statistical Analysis,” ibid., Series 2, Box 49.
“The outlook is exceedingly favorable”: Ibid.
“The organizational job”: Thomas Dewey to Herbert Brownell, June 3, 1948, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 10, Box 6.
“The Communist Party organization”: “Hit Russia Harder, Stassen Proposes,” New York Times, March 19, 1948.
“There isn’t any use in”: F. N. Belgrano Jr. to Herbert Brownell, May 5, 1948, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 2, Box 28.
“Dewey and Women’s Rights”: Oregon primary campaign literature, ibid.
“The Governor is making rapid”: Clyde A. Lewis to Herbert Brownell, May 10, 1948, ibid., Series 10, Box 44.
“would be a must pick-up”: Fred E. Baker to Thomas Dewey, May 2, 1948, ibid., Series 2, Box 18.
“the little son of a bitch”: Pietrusza, 1948: Harry Truman’s Improbable Victory, p. 135.
“I think you can take the guy”: Ibid., p. 136.
“Chairman Van Boskirk”: Transcript of the complete debate reprinted in Vital Speeches of the Day, June 1, 1948, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 5, Box 47.
“The free world looks to us”: Ibid.
“Herb . . . I feel that I can”: Joe Montgomery to Herbert Brownell, June 7, 1948, ibid., Series 2, Box 40.
“Mister Pegler’s place as”: “The Press: Mister Pegler,” Time, October 10, 1938.
“We have had evidence”: “Wallace’s Character,” Atlanta Constitution, May 12, 1947.
“The protecting shield of the”: “Did Wallace Write the Guru Letters?” Atlanta Constitution, March 9, 1948.
“I would tell them to get ready”: “Wallace Accuses Truman of Leading to Russian War,” New York Times, February 25, 1948.
“laying the foundations”: Ibid.
“deliberately created [a] crisis”: “Wallace Accuses Truman of Scare to Get Draft, UMT,” New York Times, March 21, 1948.
“Our country’s heritage means”: “History Lesson: Red Scare in Evansville,” USA Today Courier & Press, March 13, 2018.
“According to newspapers”: “Wallace Renews His Red Vote Stand,” New York Times, July 24, 1948.
“I was very much shocked”: Oral history of Henry A. Wallace, Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, p. 5116.
“It must be part of a communist”: “Offer Rewards of $117,800 for Reuther’s Foe,” Chicago Daily Tribune, April 22, 1948.
“This is the colored entrance”: “Glen Taylor Seized, Fingerprinted as He Flouts Alabama Segregation,” New York Times, May 2, 1948.
“This is it”: Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, p. 470.
“They got me for pukin’”: Ibid.
“I have never seen a”: Ibid., p. 446.
“I’m here, I’ve seen it”: Curtis Daniel MacDougall, Gideon’s Army, vol. 1 (New York: Marzani & Munsell, 1965), p. 155.
“Thousands of people believe”: “Harold L. Ickes: Wallace’s Popularity,” Atlanta Constitution, June 4, 1947.
“Let the mass of American”: “W. E. B. Dubois: The Winds of Time,” Chicago Defender, March 20, 1948.
“to turn the rascals out”: Frank Lloyd Wright to Henry Wallace, June 1, 1948, Henry A. Wallace Papers, Reel No. 45, University of Iowa.
“The Third Party candidate has”: Americans for Democratic Action report, Henry A. Wallace: The First Three Months, p. 3, 1948 Election Campaign File, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/henry-wallace-first-three-months?documentid=NA&pagenumber=3.
“test of Truman-Wallace strength”: “Mayor to Support Bronx Democrat,” New York Times, February 4, 1948.
“I do not want and I will not”: Harry Truman, St. Patrick’s Day Address in New York City, March 17, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/53/st-patricks-day-address-new-york-city.
“There is no known method”: “Doom of Those Near an Atomic Attack Foreseen,” Chicago Daily Tribune, April 11, 1948.
“definite, decisive steps”: “Text of Wallace Letter to Stalin Calling for Peace Program,” New York Times, May 12, 1948.
“need of improvement”: Devine, Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign, p. 120.
“I am humbled and grateful”: Ibid.
“may be a possible violation”: D. M. Ladd to “The Director” (J. Edgar Hoover), May 18, 1948, Wallace FBI file.
“We aren’t dealing with Stalin”: Devine, Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign, p. 121.
12. “For Better or Worse, the 1948 Fight Has Started”
“If people see him in person”: Redding, Inside the Democratic Party, pp. 52–53.
“The pretense that this”: “Truman Tackles Congress on Cross-Country Tour,” Christian Science Monitor, June 5, 1948.
“Rolling across the United”: “Truman Looks Towards West with Both Eyes on White House,” Christian Science Monitor, June 4, 1948.
“one of those deadly dull”: Daniels, The Man of Independence, p. 347.
“Why wasn’t that on”: Diary entry of David Lilienthal, April 18, 1948, The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, vol. 2, p. 317.
“A large number of reporters”: Oral History Interviews with Oscar L. Chapman, 1972 (transcript), Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 231.
“Truman in Omaha”: “The Truman-Vandenberg Bill of Goods,” Chicago Daily Tribune, June 9, 1948.
“It was almost a death knell”: Oral History Interviews with Matthew J. Connelly, 1967–68 (transcript), Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 263.
“I am honored . . . to dedicate”: Numerous accounts of this event exist, including Jules Abels, Out of the Jaws of Victory: The Astounding Election of 1948 (New York: Henry Holt, 1959), p. 397.
“It wasn’t anything to laugh at”: Oral History Interview with Robert L. Dennison, 1971 (transcript), Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 45.
“I like old Joe”: “Truman Calls ‘Old Joe Stalin’ Nice Chap But . . . ,” Los Angeles Times, June 12, 1948.
“The uproar caused by”: Clifford, Counsel to the President, p. 201.
“we just have to tell you”: Ibid.
“I actually cringed”: Oral History Interviews with Charles S. Murphy, 1963, 1969–70 (transcript), Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 18.
“At this point . . . he decided that”: Ken Hechler, Working with Truman: A Personal Memoir of the White House Years (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1982), p. 77.
“If your father knew what”: “James Roosevelt, Son of FDR, Dies at 83,” Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1991.
“Not even the most charitable”: “Presidential Boners,” Washington Post, June 11, 1948.
“Governors are running like deer”: “McLemore: Admires the Way Truman Is Pitching,” Washington Evening Star, June 15, 1948.
“the wrong tax cut at the wrong”: Smith, Thomas E. Dewey, p. 477.
“was deliberately contrived”: John F. Witte, The Politics and Development of the Federal Income Tax (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), p. 135.
“It wasn’t until Butte”: Oral History Interview with Robert G. Nixon (transcript), 1970, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 550.
“A typical reaction that you”: Oral History Interviews with Charles S. Murphy, Truman archives, p. 26.
“inactivity . . . a rich man’s tax”: Harry Truman, Address Before the Greater Los Angeles Press Club, June
