“Since knowing you I have”: Clellan S. Forsythe to Thomas Dewey, November 1, 1948, ibid., Series 5, Box 66.
“I could hardly get through”: Oral History Interview with Philleo Nash (transcript), Truman archives, p. 391.
“I brought up a draft”: Dialogue from ibid., p. 393.
“Unity is basically a weak concept”: Ibid., p. 394.
“little shadow”: “Informal Remarks in New York,” October 29, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/264/informal-remarks-new-york.
“Pour it on, Harry!”: “President Renews Civil Rights Plea,” New York Times, October 30, 1948.
“All of a sudden, there”: Oral History Interview with Philleo Nash (transcript), Truman archives, pp. 399–400.
“This, in my mind, is a most”: “Address in Harlem, New York, Upon Receiving the Franklin Roosevelt Award,” October 29, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/265/address-harlem-new-york-upon-receiving-franklin-roosevelt-award.
“Eventually, we are going to have”: Ibid.
“Immediate and far-reaching”: “President Renews Civil Rights Plea,” New York Times, October 30, 1948.
“shallow, hollow, worthless promises”: “Wallace Calls Truman Vows ‘Worthless,’” Washington Post, October 30, 1948.
“invited the Dixiecrats”: Ibid.
“a Federal horsewhip to”: “Thurmond Assails Rivals,” New York Times, October 30, 1948.
“Our campaign is based on”: “Address by Governor Thurmond, States’ Rights Candidate, in Texas,” New York Times, October 31, 1948.
“un-American”: Ibid.
“On the last long ride”: Oral History Interview with John Franklin Carter (transcript), Truman archives, p. 26.
“Are you going to deliver”: Dialogue from Oral History Interview with John W. Snyder (transcript), Truman archives, p. 936.
“We got to St. Louis and”: Oral History Interview with Carleton Kent (transcript), 1970, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 74.
“There were so many people”: Oral History Interview with Robert G. Nixon (transcript), Truman archives, p. 660.
“Thank you my friends”: “Address at the Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri,” October 30, 1948, Public Papers, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/268/address-kiel-auditorium-st-louis-missouri.
“The country was aware”: Oral History Interview with Robert G. Nixon (transcript), Truman archives, p. 669.
“I have been in many a”: “Address at the Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri,” October 30, 1948.
“applauded for about”: Oral History Interview with John Franklin Carter (transcript), Truman archives, p. 26.
“saboteurs and character assassins”: “Address at the Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri,” October 30, 1948.
“I returned from the bedlam”: Harry S. Truman, Memoirs, vol. 2, p. 220.
“The campaign is all over”: Diary entry of Margaret Truman, November 1, 1948, Margaret Truman Daniel and E. Clifton Daniel Papers, Box 14, Truman archives.
“We have come to the end”: “Dewey Text,” Boston Daily Globe, November 2, 1948.
“I stand by my prediction”: “Poll Shows Dewey Still Leads Race,” Hartford Courant, November 1, 1948.
“The next President travels by”: Robert J. Donovan, Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945–1948 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996), p. 429.
“I have already made up”: “Dewey to Win: But the People Fret,” Atlanta Constitution, November 1, 1948.
“I would say that Governor”: “The Washington Merry-Go-Round: Dewey Unscathed in Gantlet Run,” Washington Post, November 1, 1948.
“Government will remain big”: “Dewey As President,” Wall Street Journal, November 2, 1948.
“What will Dewey do?”: Abels, Out of the Jaws of Victory, p. 261.
“Harry S. Truman: A Study”: David McCullough, Truman (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), p. 703.
“Dewey Gets the Votes”: “London Press Sees Dewey Victory, But Shows No Warmth for Him,” New York Times, November 2, 1948.
“What kind of President”: Ibid.
“Most of the articles [in Britain]”: Ibid.
31. “Tens of Thousands, and Hundreds of Thousands! How Can He Lose?”
“The ballot is stronger”: Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years (New York: Sterling, 2007), p. 78.
“Harry S. Truman, 219 North”: “3 Trumans Go to the Polls,” New York Times, November 3, 1948.
“How do you think it will”: Dialogue from ibid.
“Well . . . that’s two votes we”: “Gov. Dewey, Family Sit Up to Scan Election Returns,” Boston Daily Globe, November 3, 1948.
“more votes than the pollsters say”: “Wallace Votes, Then Tends Farm,” New York Times, November 3, 1948.
“They said back at Philadelphia”: “Thurmond and His Wife Vote States’ Rights,” Los Angeles Times, November 3, 1948.
“Boy, those ulcers of mine”: Oral History Interview with Tom L. Evans (transcript), 1963, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 526.
“We didn’t talk any about”: Oral History Interview with Wallace H. Graham (transcript), 1989, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 23.
“How do you think it’s”: Smith, Thomas E. Dewey, p. 23.
“Five votes for Dewey, two”: Donald P. Miller, “A Remembrance of November 2, 1948,” Harry S. Truman Papers, President’s Secretary’s Files, Truman archives.
“What do you think of the”: Dialogue from “When Hotel Muehlebach Becomes the White House,” George Elsey papers, Truman archives. Also published in book form: Barney L. Allis, When Hotel Muehlebach Becomes the White House, privately printed, 1949.
“It was a rather sober bunch”: Oral history of Carleton Kent (transcript), Truman archives, pp. 67–68.
“Nobody here”: Dialogue from Redding, Inside the Democratic Party, pp. 11–12.
“We had the President’s office”: Oral History Interview with Philleo Nash (transcript), Truman archives, p. 405.
“Were it not for all these”: Diary entry of Eben Ayers, November 2, 1948, in Eben A. Ayers, Truman in the White House: The Diary of Eben A. Ayers (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991), p. 83.
“I had a feeling that perhaps”: Alonzo Fields, My 21 Years in the White House (New York: Coward-McCann, 1961), p. 148.
“terrible uncertainty”: Clifford, Counsel to the President, p. 238.
“We had planned to stay”: Ibid., p. 239.
“Police said at least half”: “Soviet Press Takes Note of Election,” Hartford Courant, November 3, 1948.
“Wallace seemed to be in”: Oral history of Calvin “Beanie” Baldwin, Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, p. 36.
“Early reports reaching us”: “Statement by Herbert Brownell Jr.,” Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 2, Box 117.
“We want Harry”: “Truman Gets Out of Sight During Count,” Los Angeles Times, November 3, 1948.
“frantic . . . I am not using”: Margaret Truman, Harry S. Truman (New York: Morrow, 1973), p. 40.
“Dad isn’t here”: McCullough, Truman, p. 706.
“At this moment the polls”: “Text of 7:30 Statement by Brownell,” Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 2, Box 117.
“Along in the evening”: Oral History Interview with Mary Ethel Noland (transcript), 1965, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 200.
“That went on all night long”: Ibid.
32. “Under No Circumstance Will
