“Why I thought the world”: Essie Mae Washington-Williams, with William Stadiem, Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond (New York: Regan Books, 2005), p. 108.
“I knew they meant business”: “Trigger Man Identified as R.C. Hurd, 45,” Atlanta Daily World, May 15, 1947.
“Lord, you done killed me”: “Statements Accuse S.C. Taxi Driver of ‘Execution’ in Mass Lynch Trial,” Atlanta Constitution, May 15, 1947.
“At least in that part”: “Lynch Verdict,” Washington Post, May 23, 1947.
19. “They Are Simply a ‘Red Herring’”
“Tom, when you get to the”: Robert J. Donovan, Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945–1948 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996), p. 413.
“Miss Bentley . . . please”: Dialogue from Hearings Before the Committee on Legislation of the Committee on Un-American Activities: House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 4422 and H.R. 4581 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1948).
“the insidious evil”: Ibid.
“A ripple of surprise went through”: Richard Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York: Touchstone, 1990), p. 53.
“Smearing good people like”: Robert W. Lee, The United Nations Conspiracy (Appleton, WI: Western Islands, 1981), p. 15.
“I am here at my own”: Hearings Before the Committee on Legislation of the Committee on Un-American Activities, Second Session on H.R. 442-2 and H.R. 4581.
“High prices are not taking”: Eleanor Roosevelt, “My Day,” July 31, 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt Collection, Digital Edition, George Washington University, https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1948&_f=md001033.
“There is still time for the”: Dialogue from transcript of the President’s News Conference, August 5, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/170/presidents-news-conference.
“The President simply had”: Oral History Interview with Robert G. Nixon (transcript), 1970, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 413.
“treasonable in spirit”: “Truman’s Remark Attacked by Macy,” New York Times, August 15, 1948.
“puerile whim-wham”: “Mencken Meditates on the Red Spy Hunt,” Los Angeles Times, August 15, 1948.
“shocked . . . seeming to cover up”: “Dewey Arranging Trans-US Drive,” New York Times, August 13, 1948.
“The trend of presidential”: “Impeachment of President Raised in Ferguson Speech,” New York Times, August 8, 1948.
“You have that much confidence?”: Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 56.
“Neither a man nor a crowd”: Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 121–22.
“In different ages there have”: “Communism Is the Greatest Internal Security Threat at This Time,” A Report to the National Security Council, August 6, 1948, President’s Secretary’s Files, Box 178, Truman archives.
“If there turned out to be”: Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 56.
“There’s no question about it”: Ibid., p. 57.
“Red Activity Looms Big”: “Red Activity Looms Big in Campaign,” Chicago Daily Tribune, August 16, 1948.
“Watch your step with this one”: John J. Abt, with Michael Myerson, Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993), p. 152.
“It was clear that these”: Ibid., p. 151.
“a shameful circus”: “Think Alikes,’” Chicago Daily Tribune, August 19, 1948.
“civil rights, inflation, housing”: “Pressman Sees Inquiry a ‘Shameful Circus,’” Washington Post, August 5, 1948.
“If I had my way about”: “Send Reds to Russia, Wallace at Head, Says Georgia Judge,” Boston Daily Globe, August 8, 1948.
“I don’t think any person”: Oral history of Charles “Beanie” Baldwin, Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, p. 20.
“This meant I had to stay”: Oral history of Henry A. Wallace, Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, p. 5123.
“We must learn from Jesus”: “Wallace Tours South; Urges Dixie Subsidies,” Chicago Daily Tribune, August 30, 1948.
“Hey, Joe Stalin is looking . . . Why don’t you go”: Ibid.
SEND WALLACE BACK TO RUSSIA: “Wallace Durham Rally Protested by Vet Group,” Atlanta Constitution, August 30, 1948.
“They continually shouted”: Oral history of Henry A. Wallace, Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, p. 5123.
“Please sit down!”: “Boos Greet Wallace’s Dixie Aid,” Atlanta Constitution, August 29, 1948.
“Don’t you think we ought”: Oral history of Henry A. Wallace, Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, p. 5124.
“I would like to see some”: “Pelt Wallace with Eggs on His Dixie Tour,” Chicago Daily Tribune, August 31, 1947.
SELL YOUR JUNK IN MOSCOW: “Wallace Again Bombarded in Speech Making Efforts,” Los Angeles Times, September 1, 1948.
“I believe there are people”: “Wallace Continues March Through Southern Boos,” Christian Science Monitor, August 31, 1948.
“Get out of town!”: John C. Culver and John Hyde, American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), p. 493.
“the greatest blow against”: “When Wallace Comes a-Preaching, the Southern Sees Red,” Boston Daily Globe, September 5, 1948.
“As the direct result of”: Thomas W. Devine, Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013), p. 260.
“human hate in the raw”: Oral history of Henry A. Wallace, Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, p. 5123.
20. “There Is Great Danger Ahead”
“The White House Architect and”: Diary entry of Harry Truman, August 3, 1948, Post Presidential File, Box 643, Truman archives.
“Margaret’s sitting room floor”: Harry Truman to Mary Jane Truman, August 10, 1948, Papers of Harry S. Truman Pertaining to Family, Business, and Personal Affairs, Box 20, Truman archives.
“Can you imagine what”: Robert Klara, The Hidden White House: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America’s Most Famous Residence (New York: Thomas Dunne, 2013), p. 66.
“In the intimacy of the ship”: Elsey, An Unplanned Life, p. 145.
“The situation is becoming”: “Memorandum for the President: Relief for Arab and Jewish Refugees in the Near East,” undated, Clark Clifford papers, Box 13, Truman archives.
“We have said ‘no’ and we”: Ann Tusa and John Tusa, The Berlin Airlift (New York: Atheneum, 1988), pp. 222–23.
“immediate use”: James Forrestal, The Forrestal Diaries, edited by Walter Millis (New York: Viking, 1951), p. 478.
“Do you think so?”: Abels, Out of the Jaws of Victory, p. 163.
“I’d be much better off”: Harry Truman to Mary Jane Truman, September 2, 1948, Papers of Harry S. Truman Pertaining to Family, Business, and Personal Affairs, Box 20, Truman archives.
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