“I lived in a little tiny”: Oral History Interview with Clark M. Clifford (transcript), 1971, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 272.
“I was armed with briefcases”: Elsey, An Unplanned Life, p. 166.
“I worked at it night and”: Oral History Interview with Charles S. Murphy, Truman archives, pp. 133–40.
“He was on his own five-yard”: Oral History Interview with Clark M. Clifford, Truman archives, p. 246.
“My, what a wonderful crowd”: Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Michigan and Ohio, September 6, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/183/rear-platform-and-other-informal-remarks-michigan-and-ohio.
“The record proves conclusively”: Ibid.
Truman was ushered into a special: Detailed schedules and arrangements for Truman’s campaign stops can be found in the Truman archives; the descriptions of the Grand Rapids campaign stop come from “Trip of the President to Grand Rapids, Lansing, Detroit, Pontiac, and Flint, Michigan,” Clark Clifford Papers, Box 33.
“the first major crisis”: Margaret Truman, Harry S. Truman (New York: Morrow, 1973), p. 20.
“Well, that broadcast is”: Oral History Interview with Matthew J. Connelly, Truman archives, p. 287.
“As you know . . . I speak”: Labor Day Address in Cadillac Square, Detroit, September 6, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/184/labor-day-address-cadillac-square-detroit.
“Along the highway from”: Oral History Interview with Matthew J. Connelly, Truman archives, p. 287.
“A President can always bring”: Oral History Interview with Jack L. Bell (transcript), 1971, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 55.
21. “The All-Time Georgia Champion of ‘White Supremacy’”
“Yesterday in Detroit . . . the American”: “Test of Stassen’s Reply to Truman,” Los Angeles Times, September 8, 1948.
“the inflationary spiral”: Ibid.
“He said he listened to the speech”: “Dewey Compliments Stassen,” New York Times, September 8, 1948.
“the all-time Georgia champion”: “The Southeast: Klan Openly Backs Talmadge in Georgia Campaign,” New York Times, August 15, 1948.
“Wise Negroes . . . will stay away”: “FBI Probes Georgia Primary As Talmadge ‘Warns’ Negroes,” Christian Science Monitor, July 15, 1946.
“We’re going to have white”: “White Supremacy In Peace or By Force—Talmadge,” Chicago Defender, August 14, 1948.
“I guess I voted for”: “Bullets and Ballot Boxes: The Isaiah Nixon Story,” Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory University (Note: this article cites FBI documents), https://coldcases.emory.edu/bullets-and-ballot-boxes-the-isaiah-nixon-story/#_ftn23.
“Fall, Isaiah, fall!”: Ibid.
“Herman Talmadge’s victory in”: “Talmadge Victory Boost for Dixiecrats,” Atlanta Constitution, September 12, 1948.
“My mama ain’t going”: “Election Highlights,” Atlanta Daily World, November 3, 1948.
“a weird combination of the”: “Rally Combines Revival, Song-Fest,” New York Times, September 11, 1948.
SAFEGUARD FREEDOM: Ibid.
“I can tell you a lot of things”: Ibid.
“They can call us Reds”: “48,000 Hear Wallace Assert Prejudice Will Fail in South,” New York Times, September 11, 1948.
“This is a great American”: “Text of Wallace’s Speech at Yankee Stadium,” New York Times, September 11, 1948.
“We must work”: Ibid.
22. “We’re Going to Give ’Em Hell”
“that he prayed that he would never”: Diary entry of James Forrestal, September 13, 1948, in The Forrestal Diaries, p. 487.
“The situation in Berlin is bad”: Diary entry of David Lilienthal, September 13, 1948, The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, vol. 2, The Atomic Energy Years 1945–1950 (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 406.
“I am appealing to you for”: “Washington Merry-Go-Round: Democrats Hunt Down Money,” Washington Post, September 18, 1948.
“Mr. Truman looked pathetic”: Ibid.
“I have a terrible feeling”: Diary entry of Harry Truman, September 13, 1948, Post Presidential File, Box 643, Truman archives.
“I think I am going to mow ’em”: Numerous accounts of this conversation have the wording slightly different. See “Truman Gay as He Starts Western Trip,” Washington Post, September 18, 1948; Alben W. Barkley, That Reminds Me (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954), p. 344.
“Daddy, you shouldn’t say”: Barkley, That Reminds Me, p. 203.
“I don’t think I have ever seen”: Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri, September 18, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/194/rear-platform-and-other-informal-remarks-illinois-iowa-and-missouri.
“Well, those people had to”: William Bray, “Recollections of the 1948 Campaign,” Clark Clifford papers, Box 22, Truman archives. Also: Research Files, 1948 Election Campaign Collection, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/recollections-1948-campaign-william-j-bray.
“It is fascinating”: Diary entry of Margaret Truman, September 17, 1948, Margaret Truman Daniel and E. Clifton Daniel Papers, Box 14, Truman archives.
“Going across the country”: Oral History Interviews with John P. McEnery (transcript), 1970, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 94.
“It was like a traveling circus”: Oral History Interview with Richard L. Strout (transcript), 1971, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 7.
“Nothing in the world is”: “Calling Washington: Strange Ritual,” Washington Post, October 2, 1948.
“The most important function”: Oral History Interview with Clark M. Clifford (transcript), Truman archives, p. 275.
“As an advance man”: Oral History Interview with Oscar L. Chapman (transcript), 1972, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 113.
“They worked like dogs and”: Oral History Interview with George M. Elsey, Truman archives, p. 63.
“When [Truman] would come into”: Oral History Interview with Clark M. Clifford, Truman archives, p. 274.
“He didn’t have time between”: Oral History Interview with Charles S. Murphy, Truman archives, p. 9.
“we developed a pattern for”: Clifford, Counsel to the President, p. 227.
“We’d bring the rope up and”: Oral History Interview with Floyd M. Boring (transcript), 1988, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 50.
“You guys let me down”: Oral History Interview with George Tames (transcript), 1980, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 12.
“Come on, boys . . . you have”: Ibid.
“Despite Mrs. Truman’s reserve”: Elsey, An Unplanned Life, p. 169.
“If it had been left to your”: Margaret Truman, Bess W. Truman (New York: Macmillan, 1986), p. 298.
“wasn’t trying to run the world”: Oral History Interview with Oscar L. Chapman, Truman archives, p. 121.
“The interest the public takes”: “Margaret Truman, Career Girl,” New York Times, September 8, 1946.
“Now don’t get scared”: David McCullough, Truman (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), p. 567.
Pepsodent Hour with Bob Hope: Correspondence regarding Ms. Truman’s singing invitations are in Margaret Truman Papers, Box 5, Truman archives.
“my greatest asset”: Ken Hechler, Working with Truman: A Personal Memoir of the White House Years (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1982), p. 266.
“Where is Margaret?”: “Truman Gay as He Starts Western Trip,” Washington Post, September 18, 1948.
“the Odyssey of the ‘everyday’”: Jonathan Daniels, The Man of Independence (Port Washington, NY:
