“I can’t tell you how”: “Acceptance Speech of the President at the Democratic National Convention, Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1948,” Truman archives.
“I meant just that”: Harry S. Truman, Memoirs, vol. 2, p. 207.
“It was one of the most”: Oral History Interview with Max Lowenthal (transcript), 1967, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 97.
“I never in all my life”: Oral History Interview with Tom L. Evans (transcript), 1963, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 512.
“Everybody jumped up”: Oral History Interview with Frank K. Kelly (transcript), 1988, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 48.
“Get those goddamned”: Zachary Karabell, The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000), p. 151.
“I remember vividly all”: Oral History Interview with Neale Roach (transcript), 1969, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 41.
“What do you want him”: Joe Martin, My First Fifty Years in Politics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960), p. 188.
“Arrived in Washington at”: Diary entry of Harry Truman, July 15, 1948, Post Presidential File, Box 643, Truman archives.
“Good morning, Fields”: Dialogue from Alonzo Fields: My 21 Years in the White House (New York: Coward-McCann, 1961), p. 145.
15. “What Is at Stake Here Is the Very Survival of Western Civilization”
“The president was chipper”: Diary entry of James Forrestal, July 15, 1948, in Forrestal, The Forrestal Diaries, edited by Walter Millis (New York: Viking, 1951), p. 458.
“I would have done”: Ibid.
“serious question as to the”: Ibid.
“to have some dashing lieutenant”: Ibid.
“I don’t think we ought”: Diary entry of David Lilienthal, July 21, 1948, in The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, vol. 2, The Atomic Energy Years 1945–1950 (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 391.
“it is estimated that the”: “Memorandum for the President: Estimate of the Status of the Russian Atomic Energy Project,” July 6, 1948, Central Intelligence Agency, President’s Secretary’s Files, Box 213, Truman archives.
“The position of the present”: “The Current Situation in China,” July 22, 1948, Central Intelligence Agency report, President’s Secretary’s Files, Box 177, Truman archives.
“We’ll stay in Berlin”: Diary entry of Harry Truman, July 19, 1948, Post-Presidential File, Box 643, Truman archives.
“The atmosphere in Washington”: “Prewar Atmosphere in Washington: How War Might Come,” Boston Daily Globe, March 17, 1948.
“Bob . . . I think we ought”: Dialogue is from Irwin Ross, The Loneliest Campaign: The Truman Victory of 1948 (New York: Signet, 1968), p. 132.
“It is the act of a”: “GOP Sees Politics in Congress Call,” New York Times, July 16, 1948.
“The Constitution says that the”: Robert Taft, “Radio Address: The Special Session and Prices,” July 28, 1948, in The Papers of Robert A. Taft, edited by Clarence E. Wunderlin Jr., vol. 3, 1945–1948 (Kent, OH: Kent State University, 2003), pp. 447–48.
“The Special Session is a”: Smith, Thomas E. Dewey, p. 505.
“In Berlin we must not”: “Text of Press Conference with Governor Thomas E. Dewey, July 21, at Pawling, New York (During Meeting with General Eisenhower)” (Note: title seems to be dated incorrectly). Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.
“I have not identified myself”: Ibid.
“I want to tell you, ladies”: Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson, Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond (New York: Public Affairs, 2005), p. 117. A clip from Thurmond’s States’ Rights Democratic Party acceptance speech is at “Strom Thurmond’s Dixiecrat Days Newsreel,” YouTube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emSihCBR3XY.
“If we throw the election”: “Thurmond and Wright Head Dixie Rights Ticket,” Atlanta Constitution, July 18, 1948.
“In Philadelphia, a definite”: Ibid.
“a riotous rebel convention”: Ibid.
“too moderate”: “J. B. Stoner: The Symbol of a Bygone Era of Hate—Or Is He?” Atlanta Constitution, October 1, 1977.
“declaration of principles”: “Southern Declaration of Principles,” Hartford Courant, July 18, 1948.
“We stand for the segregation”: Ibid.
“I agree, but Truman”: Abels, Out of the Jaws of Victory, p. 84.
“not interested one whit”: Joseph Crespino, Strom Thurmond’s America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), p. 72.
“All your high-flown”: Alfred Steinberg, Sam Rayburn: A Biography (New York: Hawthorn, 1975), p. 240.
“The president has gone too”: Bass and Thompson, Strom, p. 108.
“monstrous frame-up”: “Leading U.S. Reds Arrested,” Boston Daily Globe, July 21, 1948.
“The American people can now”: “Wallace Hits Impression He Is in Communist Grip,” Christian Science Monitor, July 21, 1948.
“So you can save your breath”: Thomas W. Devine, Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013), p. 129.
“Have you ever repudiated”: Abels, Out of the Jaws of Victory, p. 115.
“A tense, terrible silence”: John C. Culver and John Hyde, American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), p. 483.
“I never discuss Westbrook”: Dialogue is recounted in both ibid., p. 483, and Abels, Out of the Jaws of Victory, p. 115.
“The American press had one”: “Wallace’s Gag Gives Newsmen a Shining Hour,” Chicago Daily Tribune, July 24, 1948.
“corruption . . . betrayal . . . murder”: “It’s Wallace or War, Says Keynoter for New Party,” Washington Post, July 24, 1948.
“birth of a new party”: “Wallace Party Launched in Philadelphia,” Hartford Courant, July 24, 1948.
“Berlin did not happen”: “Text of Henry Wallace’s Acceptance of Presidential Nomination,” Washington Post, July 25, 1948.
“To make that dream”: Ibid.
“almost fanatical enthusiasm”: “Revival Fervor Hails Nominees,” New York Times, July 25, 1948.
“One, two, three, four”: Ibid.
“I’d say they have a good”: Devine, Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign, p. 45.
“Nobody can stop them”: Curtis Daniel MacDougall, Gideon’s Army, vol. 1 (New York: Marzani & Munsell, 1965), p. 504.
“It will remain a thing of awe”: Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, p. 488.
16. “A Profound Sense of What’s Right and What’s Wrong”
“The prices of food products”: The Council of Economic Advisors to the President, “The Government’s Anti-Inflation Program,” July 19, 1948, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/council-economic-advisors-harry-s-truman.
“stirred up the greatest biological”: “Report on Kinsey,” Life, August 2, 1948.
“You can now summon”: Advertisement for Otis Electronic Signal Control, Business Week, July 10, 1948.
“As television grows on an”: “TV to Alter U.S. As Much As Model T,” Chicago Daily Tribune, August 1, 1948.
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