“The lack of money in the”: Margaret Truman, Harry S. Truman (New York: Morrow, 1973), p. 20.
“Our governmental house”: All the quotes in this paragraph from “GOP Quotes Democrats That Truman Can’t Win,” Los Angeles Times, July 18, 1948.
“My brother Vivian”: Diary entry of Harry Truman, August 2, 1948, Post Presidential File, Box 643, Truman archives.
“I would like to take this”: Thomas C. Buchanan to Philip Mathews, June 24, 1948, William M. Boyle Jr. Papers, Box 3, Truman archives.
“The greatest ambition Harry”: Irwin Ross, The Loneliest Campaign: The Truman Victory of 1948 (New York: Signet, 1968), p. 18.
“We are going to win”: Margaret Truman, Harry S. Truman, p. 5.
“The situation isn’t as bad”: Jack Redding, Inside the Democratic Party (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958), p. 263.
“It’s all so futile”: Harry Truman to Mary Jane Truman, July 26, 1948, Papers of Harry S. Truman Pertaining to Family, Business, and Personal Affairs, Box 20.
“I’m going to make it a”: George McKee Elsey, An Unplanned Life: A Memoir by George McKee Elsey (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005), p. 167.
“We would meet at six”: Oral History Interview with Oscar R. Ewing (transcript), 1969, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 131.
“I was their link with”: Oral History Interview with Clark M. Clifford (transcript), 1971, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 190.
“White House Wonder”: “White House Wonder,” Los Angeles Times, June 22, 1947.
“Capital’s Golden Boy”: Ibid.
“Every morning when I”: Oral History Interview with Neale Roach (transcript), 1969, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 48.
“The pressure was increasingly”: Redding, Inside the Democratic Party, p. 65.
“Meetings were held at the”: Ibid., pp. 164–65.
“I didn’t come here”: Ibid., pp. 169–70.
“Come back!”: Ibid.
“They asked me to go up”: Oral History Interview with William L. Batt Jr. (transcript), 1966, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, pp. 3–4.
“miserably noisy”: Ibid., p. 4.
“We had been told right at”: Oral History Interview with Dr. Johannes Hoeber (transcript), 1966, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 10.
“we lived, literally”: Ibid., pp. 47–48.
“his courage, his coolness”: William L. Batt Jr. to Clark Clifford, July 22, 1948, Clark M. Clifford Papers, Box 21, Truman archives.
“My gosh . . . Nash is away”: Oral History Interview with Philleo Nash (transcript), 1966, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 346.
“jumped on the night train”: Ibid., p. 347.
“fair employment practices”: Executive Order 9980, Executive Orders, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/executive-orders/9980/executive-order-9980.
“caught almost everyone off”: Clark Clifford, with Richard Holbrooke, Counsel to the President: A Memoir (New York: Random House, 1991), p. 211.
“I believe that it is necessary”: “Message to the Special Session of the 80th Congress,” July 27, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/165/message-special-session-80th-congress.
“I think he was motivated by”: Oral History Interviews with Charles S. Murphy, 1963, 1969–70 (transcript), Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, pp. 227–28.
“All I can say is that I’m sure”: Ibid.
“Would you say it was a”: Transcript of the President’s News Conference, August 12, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/174/presidents-news-conference.
“I felt justified in calling the”: Harry S. Truman, Memoirs, vol. 2, Years of Trial and Hope, 1946–1952 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956), p. 208.
“a petulant Ajax from”: “National Affairs: Turnip Day Session,” Time, July 26, 1948.
“the most expensive advertising”: “Expensive Promotion for Turnips,” Atlanta Constitution, August 10, 1948.
“They sure are in a stew”: Harry Truman to Bess Truman, July 23, 1948, Papers of Harry S. Truman Pertaining to Family, Business, and Personal Affairs, Box 16, Truman archives.
17. “What Exciting Times You Are Having!”
“I am having a ‘holiday’”: Thomas Dewey to Winston Churchill, July 12, 1948, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 10, Box 8, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.
“principal innovations in”: “Governor Dewey’s Dairy Farm,” ibid., Series 2, Box 117.
“What exciting times you are”: Winston Churchill to Thomas Dewey, June 16, 1948, ibid., Series 10, Box 8.
“Help sweep the nation clean”: Election memorabilia and correspondence, ibid., Series 2, Box 39.
“We believe that it will”: Ibid.
“Dewey Will Do It”: Election memorabilia from ibid.
“Well . . . this will come as”: Richard Norton Smith, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times (New York: Touchstone, 1982), p. 515.
“which not even Goebbels would”: “Text of Dewey Speech,” Hartford Courant, September 26, 1944.
“That’s the worst speech”: Smith, Thomas E. Dewey, p. 515.
“This campaign will be different”: Abels, Out of the Jaws of Victory, p. 146.
“Can you tell us when you”: Transcript of Dewey Press Conference, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 2, Box 117.
“the slightest mismanagement”: “Berlin Crisis a Powder Keg, Dewey Says,” Washington Post, July 22, 1948.
“thoroughly competent grasp of”: On-camera interview with Senator Arthur Vandenberg, The Dewey Story, YouTube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozJFb0wKWD8.
“Why shouldn’t we have”: Thomas Dewey to Herbert Brownell, August 23, 1948, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 10, Box 6.
“Why does the Republican Committee”: Quotes in Ben Duffy to Herbert Brownell, August 25, 1948, ibid., Series 10, Box 6.
“Why doesn’t Dewey answer”: Abels, Out of the Jaws of Victory, p. 170.
“I’m the man who beat”: Ibid., p. 171.
18. “As for Me, I Intend to Fight!”
“the results in civil strife”: “Thurmond Warns of Rights Strife,” New York Times, August 1, 1948.
“a virtual revolution in the”: Ibid.
“The South’s fight is not”: Strom Thurmond to Thomas Dewey, April 13, 1948, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 5, Box 189.
“Governor Thurmond is a”: Director, FBI, SAC, Savannah to J. Edgar Hoover, October 14, 1948, FBI file of Strom Thurmond.
“The struggle in which we were”: Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson, Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond (New York: Public Affairs, 2005), p. 15.
“Every Democrat must feel”: Ibid.
“He was my idol”: Joseph Crespino, Strom Thurmond’s America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), p. 18.
“What do you want?”: Dialogue from Bass and Thompson, Strom, p. 19.
“Men were stacked up”: Bass and Thompson, Strom, p. 73.
“The United States is a constitutional”: Hans Kelsen, General Theory of Law and State, vol. 1 (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2009), p. 295n.
“We will have done”: Walter Francis White, A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995), p. 90.
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