“The halls leading to the”: “Vote Peps Up Surprised Democrats,” Los Angeles Times, November 3, 1948.
“We are now getting into”: “Statement by Herbert Brownell Jr., at 11:15 pm,” Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 2, Box 117.
“undoubtedly beaten”: McCullough, Truman, p. 707.
“We now know that Governor Dewey”: “Statement by Herbert Brownell Jr. at 1:45 am,” Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 2, Box 117.
“Well, Mr. President . . . you’re”: Dialogue from Oral History Interview with Tom L. Evans (transcript), Truman archives, p. 534.
“a churning madhouse”: “When Hotel Muehlebach Becomes the White House,” George Elsey papers, Truman archives. Also published in pamphlet form under byline Barney L. Allis (Kansas City, MO: Hotel Muehlebach, 1949).
“We don’t say that we’re”: Oral History Interview with Frank Holeman (transcript), 1987, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 22.
“Dear Barney, I need a room”: Ibid.
“As the night wore on”: Oral History Interview with Samuel C. Brightman (transcript), 1966, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 115.
“He was sweating”: Redding, Inside the Democratic Party, pp. 20–21.
“Jim, you can take it”: Ibid., p. 21.
“What is Drew Pearson saying?”: Dialogue from Oral History Interview with John Franklin Carter (transcript), Truman archives, pp. 48–49.
“We were all trying to”: Letters to the Editor, Life, November 22, 1948, p. 12.
“there was pandemonium”: Oral History Interview with John Franklin Carter (transcript), Truman archives, p. 69.
“The Ohio vote finally came”: Oral History Interview with Carleton Kent (transcript), Truman archives, p. 684.
“Bill, stop writing that”: Ibid., pp. 684–85.
“It’s awful”: Smith, Thomas E. Dewey, p. 49.
“What do you know?”: Ed Cray, Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), p. 193.
“And all of the sudden”: McCullough, Truman, p. 707.
“Mr. President . . . I don’t”: Dialogue from Oral History Interview with H. Graham Morison (transcript), 1972, Truman archives, pp. 248–49.
“We’ve got ’em beat”: McCullough, Truman, p. 707.
“I told him so all the time”: John C. Culver and John Hyde, American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), p. 502.
“Tonight we have had an”: “Wallace Vote Is Far Short of His Party’s Expectations,” New York Times, November 3, 1948.
“so long as the policy of”: John J. Abt, with Michael Myerson, Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993), pp. 163–64.
“Under no circumstance”: Ibid., p. 164.
“The President is on his way”: Dialogue from “When Hotel Muehlebach Becomes the White House,” George Elsey papers, Truman archives.
“I looked up”: Ibid.
“I heard the broadcast”: Ibid.
“His door was wide open”: Oral History Interview with Robert G. Nixon (transcript), Truman archives, p. 687.
“It looks as though we”: Dialogue from “When Hotel Muehlebach Becomes the White House.”
“the most gratifying phone”: Clifford, Counsel to the President, p. 239.
“He displayed neither tension”: Letters to the Editor, Life, November 22, 1948, p. 12.
“At 6 a.m. today”: “Forecasts Upset: President Surprises by Taking Early Popular Vote Lead,” New York Times, November 3, 1948.
“Election Still in Doubt”: “Election Still in Doubt,” Los Angeles Times, November 3, 1948.
“The ballots haven’t been”: “An Affectionate Farewell to Harry,” Atlanta Constitution, November 3, 1948.
“The first postelection question”: “Matter of Fact: Flying Dual Control,” Washington Post, November 3, 1948.
“Thomas E. Dewey Amerikas”: “Thomas E. Dewey Amerikas neuer Präsident,” Muenchen Merkur, November 3, 1948.
“Dewey, Warren Win; Business Gain”: “Dewey, Warren Win; Business Gain Seen,” Women’s Wear Daily, November 3, 1948.
“ ‘Persistence’ Is the Dominating”: “ ‘Persistence’ Is the Dominating Trait that Carried Dewey to the Presidency,” Washington Post, November 3, 1948.
“Dewey Defeats Truman”: “Dewey Defeats Truman; G.O.P. Sweep Indicated in State,” Chicago Daily Tribune, November 3, 1948.
“arguably the most famous”: “Dewey Defeats Truman,” Chicago Tribune, December 19, 2007.
“Thank you, Mr. President”: Redding, Inside the Democratic Party, p. 23.
“The wine shimmered effervescently”: Ibid.
“Now I want you to talk to”: Oral History Interviews with India Edwards (transcript), 1969 and 1975, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 81.
“I burst out crying”: Ibid.
“Gentlemen . . . I have here a message”: Jack Redding, Inside the Democratic Party, p. 23.
“Dewey has conceded!”: “When Hotel Muehlebach Becomes the White House,” George Elsey papers, Truman archives.
“everyone was talking, yelling”: Ibid.
“All I can say . . . is that”: Ibid.
“I cried and I prayed for”: “Home Town Turns Out for Truman Victory Celebration,” Chicago Daily Tribune, November 4, 1948.
“Four more years”: Ibid.
“It’s something like the night”: “Common Man Dazed by Election,” New York Times, November 4, 1948.
“It was the most exhilarating”: Oral History Interview with Harold I. McGrath (transcript), 1970, Oral History Interviews, Truman archives, p. 98.
“It was not my victory”: “Home Town Turns Out for Truman Victory Celebration,” Chicago Daily Tribune, November 4, 1948.
“Can we regard the pictures as”: Dialogue from “Text of Press Conference by Governor Thomas E. Dewey, November 3, 1948, at the Hotel Roosevelt, New York City,” Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 2, Box 117.
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“We, and the rest of”: “He Asked for a Miracle and, Lo, He Got It,” Denver Post, November 3, 1948.
“President Truman’s victory in his”: “Truman Aimed at Voters’ Hearts, Dewey at Heads, Roberts Explains,” Boston Daily Globe, November 5, 1948.
“We were wrong, all of”: “Washington Calling: Truman’s Sweep,” Washington Post, November 5, 1948.
“Miracle Man”: Newsweek, November 8, 1948.
“the greatest photograph ever”: “Behind the Picture: ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ and the Politics of Memory,” Time, May 4, 2014.
“the biggest, most enthusiastic”: McCullough, Truman, p. 723.
WELCOME HOME: James K. Libbey, Dear Alben: Mr. Barkley of Kentucky (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2009), p. 98.
“I will never forget that ride”: Margaret Truman, Harry S. Truman, p. 43.
“I’m afraid you’re going”: Robert Klara, The Hidden White House: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America’s Most Famous Residence (New York: Thomas Dunne, 2013), p. 72.
“Doesn’t that beat hell!”: Ibid., pp. 72–73.
“We have special cause to be”: Provisional Government of Israel (Weizmann) to Truman, November 5, 1948, Research Files, Recognition of the State of Israel, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/correspondence-between-eliahu-epstein-chaim-weizmann-and-harry-s-truman?documentid=NA&pagenumber=4.
“most aggressive program”: U.S. Department of State, Moscow to Secretary of State, November 13, 1948, Clark Clifford papers, Box 21, Truman archives.
“papers of all political persuasions”: U.S. Department of State, Paris to Secretary of State, November 5, 1948, Clark Clifford
