“Election Forecast: 50 Political”: “Election Forecast: 50 Political Experts Predict a GOP Sweep,” Newsweek, October 11, 1948.
“That Dewey would be”: Clifford, Counsel to the President, p. 235.
“What have you got under”: Dialogue from ibid.
“The greatest danger that could”: J. E. Broyhill to Governor Dewey, July 27, 1948, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 5, Box 24, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.
“If you don’t open up on”: Earle S. Clayton to Thomas E. Dewey, undated, ibid., Series 2, Box 28.
“No, I won’t do it”: Jules Abels, Out of the Jaws of Victory: The Astounding Election of 1948 (New York: Henry Holt, 1959), p. 203.
“our friends of the free world”: “Governor Seeks to Offset Damage of Peace Project, Called ‘Blunder,’” Washington Post, October 11, 1948.
“The people of America”: Ibid.
“perhaps without precedent in”: Ibid.
“Certainly”: Ibid.
“We need the money and”: “Republicans Lag on Campaign Gifts,” New York Times, October 14, 1948.
27. “Could We Be Wrong?”
“Again renew my challenge to”: Strom Thurmond to Harry Truman, October 10, 1948, Research Files, President’s Committee on Civil Rights, Truman archives.
“The oil men’s generous”: “Strange Mixture of Southerners Among Dixiecrats,” Boston Daily Globe, October 20, 1948.
“understandable mistake”: “Explains Big to Hastie,” New York Times, October 26, 1948.
“pro-Truman”: Ibid.
“I would not have written”: David Pietrusza, 1948: Harry Truman’s Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America’s Role in the World (New York: Union Square, 2011), p. 310.
“an inefficient and confused”: “Thurmond Pledges to Cleanse Party,” Washington Post, October 22, 1948.
“His endless attacks on”: Essie Mae Washington-Williams, with William Stadiem, Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond (New York: Regan Books, 2005), p. 136.
“On the question of social”: Ibid., p. 137.
“I don’t like that man”: Ibid.
“brainwashed . . . if not by”: Ibid., p. 133.
“If the South had been stabbed”: Ibid., p. 135.
“We went through Illinois”: Oral History Interview with Robert G. Nixon (transcript), 1970, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, pp. 628–29.
“There is something happening”: Oral History Interview with Eben A. Ayers (transcript), 1967, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 153.
“The Truman crowds had just”: Oral History Interview with Richard L. Strout (transcript), 1971, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 18.
“This correspondent’s inquiries”: “Looks Now as if Republicans Will Carry Senate,” Boston Daily Globe, October 15, 1948.
“about 75 percent of the newspapers”: “Merry-Go-Round: Gov. Dewey Is Picked as Sure Victor,” Washington Post, October 14, 1948.
13 Oct 1948 between”: “Handwritten estimated tally of electoral votes, October 13, 1948,” Research Files, 1948 Election Campaign collection, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/handwritten-estimated-tally-electoral-votes.
“George, how many do I have?”: Dialogue from George McKee Elsey, An Unplanned Life: A Memoir by George McKee Elsey (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005), p. 170.
“Farm boy, Soldier, Statesman”: The Story of Harry S. Truman, Research Files, 1948 Election Campaign collection, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/story-harry-s-truman.
“Workers at the precinct level”: Jack Redding, Inside the Democratic Party (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958), p. 238.
“The ‘Democratic Record’ show is”: Ibid., p. 239.
“I think, Mrs. Roosevelt, that”: Dialogue from ibid., p. 228.
“The country is going to be in”: “Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Wisconsin and Minnesota,” Adams, Wisconsin, October 13, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/235/rear-platform-and-other-informal-remarks-wisconsin-and-minnesota.
“On November 2 . . . you are going”: Ibid., Spooner, Wisconsin.
“Could we be wrong?”: “Truman’s Mostly Making Neighbors,” Washington Post, October 17, 1948.
28. “The Campaign Special Train Stopped with a Jerk”
“That’s the first lunatic I’ve”: Richard Norton Smith, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times (New York: Touchstone, 1982), p. 532.
“The campaign special train”: Ibid.
“I think as much of Dewey as”: “Dewey Engineer Resents Being Called Lunatic,” Chicago Daily Tribune, October 14, 1948.
“wonderful train crews”: “Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Indiana,” October 15, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/240/rear-platform-and-other-informal-remarks-indiana.
LUNATICS FOR TRUMAN: “When Harry Gave ’em Hell,” U.S. News & World Report, January 28, 2008.
“Johnny . . . we are slipping”: Smith, Thomas E. Dewey, p. 533.
“He didn’t really like handshaking”: Ibid., pp. 348–49.
“as certain as anything can”: “A Reporter Looks Back: A ‘Sure’ Defeat for Truman,” Christian Science Monitor, August 20, 1980.
“I am worried”: Helen Brigham to Herbert Brownell, October 9, 1948, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 2, Box 21.
“Don’t float in, fight your”: Grace Burdick to Herbert Brownell, October 21, 1948, ibid.
“I tell you”: “Fire Gen. Marshall, Wallace Demands of Truman in Speech,” Chicago Daily Tribune, October 20, 1948.
“Harry S. Truman has abdicated”: “Wallace Asserts Truman Abdicated,” New York Times, October 20, 1948.
“He’s going to take the worst”: “Party to Stay, Wallace Says,” Washington Post, October 21, 1948.
“I see a lot of faces that”: “Wallace Attacks Truman in St. Louis,” New York Times, September 26, 1948.
“I’m not tired”: Ibid.
“I can’t help feeling that”: Thomas W. Devine, Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013), p. 278.
“There was a parade through Miami”: Diary entry of Margaret Truman, October 18, 1948, Margaret Truman Daniel and E. Clifton Daniel Papers, Box 14, Truman archives.
“Let me say here again”: “Address in Miami at the American Legion Convention,” October 18, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/244/address-miami-american-legion-convention.
“You can win the south without”: E. R. Roberts to Harry Truman, undated, Research Files, President’s Committee on Civil Rights, Truman archives, https://trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/correspondence-between-harry-s-truman-and-ernie-roberts?documentid=NA&pagenumber=5.
“I can’t approve of such”: Harry Truman to E. R. Roberts, August 18, 1948, ibid.
“At almost any point in Berlin”: Oral History Interview with William H. Draper Jr. (transcript), 1972, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, pp. 68–69.
“the extraordinary demands of the”: Harry Truman to Executive Secretary, National Security Council, October 22, 1948, Harry S. Truman Papers, President’s Secretary’s Files, Box 178, Truman archives.
“It must be assumed that”: “Prospects for Survival of the Republic of Korea,” October 28, 1948, Harry S. Truman Papers, Central Intelligence Agency, President’s Secretary’s Files, Box 177, Truman archives.
“Rhee’s government would be”: Harry S. Truman, Memoirs, vol. 2, p. 330.
“Arab refugee tragedy is rapidly”: John McDonald to the President and Acting Secretary of State, October 17, 1948, Clark M. Clifford Papers, Box 14, Truman archives.
“fully acceptable to the State of”: “Text of Platform as Drafted by Resolutions Committee,” New York Times, July 14, 1948.
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