“The world looks hopefully to”: U.S. Department of State, Nanking to Secretary of State, November 5, 1948, Clark Clifford papers, Box 22, Truman archives.
“opinion frequently expressed even”: U.S. Department of State, Lisbon to Secretary of State, November 5, 1948, Clark Clifford papers, Box 22, Truman archives.
“I think the future historians”: Alf M. Landon to Thomas E. Dewey, November 19, 1948, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 10, Box 24.
“Aunt Marsh and I want you”: Aunt Marsh and Uncle Peter to Tom and Frances Dewey, November 4, 1948, ibid., Series 10, Box 44.
“I have been like many other”: Thomas W. Pierce to Dorothy Bell Rakoff, November 8, 1948, ibid., Series 10, Box 44.
“It was not an ‘election’ but a ‘revolution’”: Harold L. Ickes to Judge William J. Campbell, November 5, 1948, Campaign Collection, Box 1, Truman archives.
“We should have known he couldn’t”: “Thomas E. Dewey,” Chicago Daily Tribune, March 18, 1971.
“My own opinion”: Joe Martin, My First Fifty Years in Politics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960), p. 169.
“the most interesting candidate”: Frank Gannon, “Minnesota’s Boy Wonder Was RN’s Pick for POTUS,” September 2, 2008, Richard Nixon Foundation, https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2008/09/minnesotas-boy-wonder-was-rns-pick-for-potus/.
“The short answer on the election”: Thomas Dewey to Geo. I. Thomas, December 15, 1948, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 10, Box 44.
“The farmers switched in the mid-West”: Thomas Dewey to Joseph Robinson, January 13, 1949, ibid., Series 10, Box 38.
“It had been taken for granted”: “The Farmers Wanted to Know,” Atlanta Constitution, November 8, 1948.
“Labor did it”: Robert H. Ferrell, Harry S. Truman: A Life (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994), p. 282.
“some light reading on your”: Philleo Nash to Harry Truman, November 6, 1948, 1948 Election Campaign Collection, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/philleo-nash-harry-s-truman.
“the greatest diplomatic crisis”: Robert A. Divine, Foreign Policy and U.S. Presidential Elections, 1940–1948 (New York: New Viewpoints, 1974), p. 266.
“It always galls me to think”: Abels, Out of the Jaws of Victory, p. 139.
“It is almost impossible to put”: “Taft Makes Comment,” New York Times, November 4, 1948.
“The Republican Party is split”: “GOP Is Split ‘Wide Open,’ Dewey Says,” Washington Post, February 9, 1949.
“Which voters stayed home?”: “Gallup Sees Close Election A ‘Nightmare,’” Washington Post, November 4, 1948.
“I could not have been more”: “Election Prophets Ponder in Dismay,” New York Times, November 4, 1948.
“It’s open season on the pollsters”: Broadcast of Edward R. Murrow, November 5, 1948, in In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938–1961, edited by Edward Bliss Jr. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967), p. 138.
“You’ve got to give the little man”: Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr., ed., The Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952), p. 460.
Epilogue
“I whole-heartedly agree with”: Thomas E. Dewey to Harry S. Truman, June 27, 1950, Thomas E. Dewey Papers, Series 10, Box 44.
“heart-felt gratification that no harm”: Thomas E. Dewey to Harry S. Truman, November 1, 1950, ibid., Series 10, Box 44.
“I deliberately decided that I was”: “Hotel Confab Picks Dewey’s Veep,” Salt Lake City Tribune, April 6, 1952.
“Today, I am convinced that”: “World Domination Now Russia’s Aim, Says Henry Wallace,” Boston Daily Globe, December 4, 1950.
“utterly evil”: “Where I Was Wrong,” Los Angeles Times, September 7, 1952.
“How could you have said”: Dialogue from Essie Mae Washington-Williams, with William Stadiem, Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond (New York: Regan Books, 2005), p. 145.
“the largest crowd ever assembled”: “The President’s Party,” undated, President’s Permanent File, Box 4, Truman archives.
“urgent appeal”: Chaim Weizmann (via Myra Phillips, the White House) to Clark Clifford, November 9, 1948, Clark Clifford papers, Box 14, Truman archives.
“the communist forces in central”: V. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese Embassy, Washington, to the President of the United States, November 9, 1948, Clark Clifford papers, Box 2, Truman archives.
“Don’t you wave to the S.O.B.”: Joseph Crespino, Strom Thurmond’s America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), p. 83.
“enable every American to”: “Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union,” January 5, 1949, Sound Recordings, Truman archives, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/soundrecording-records/sr62-62-annual-message-congress-state-union-president-truman.
“He [the president] . . . is”: Murrow, In Search of Light, p. 137.
Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Abt, John
background/communism and, 87
HUAC and, 199, 205
Marion (sister), 87
Wallace/presidential campaign and, 87, 93, 199, 205, 241, 242, 334
Acheson, Dean, 34–35, 60, 61, 62
Agg, T. R., Mrs., 231
Aiken, Conrad, 296
Air Force and reorganization, 75
Albright, Robert, 235, 261
Alexander, Perry, 182
Allen, George, 92
Allis, Barney, 331
Allwright, Smith v. (1944), 192, 220
Allwright, S. S., 192
Alsop, Joseph, 237, 277
Alsop, Joseph/Stewart, 51, 58, 86, 143, 235, 246, 275, 337
American Anti-Communist Association, 79
American Medical Association, 16
Amsterdam News, 309, 310
Arab-Israeli War (1948), 109, 210, 288, 353
Arvey, Jacob (“Jake”), 142, 332
Asapansa-Johnson, C., 310
Associated Press, 41, 163, 216, 235, 307
Atlanta Constitution, 42, 180, 221, 246, 315, 336
atomic weapons/bombs
Bikini Atoll test, 35–36
description/future bombs and, 14
detecting use (US) and, 154, 155–56n
Lilienthal on, 154
Operation Sandstone, 121, 154
responsibility discussions, 154, 211, 223
significance of, 5, 33
Soviet using, 154, 154–55n
US bombings of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, 5, 14, 15, 34
as US secret/sharing with Soviets and, 13–15
White House lunch/watching test, 34–35
Auschwitz, 5–6
Austin, Warren, 106
Ayers, Eben, 12, 105, 146, 277, 324
B
Bacall, Lauren, 210, 251
Balance, Elayne, 215
Baldwin, Calvin Benham (“Beanie”)
background/description, 88
Wallace/presidential campaign and, 88, 118, 164, 206, 207, 241, 242
Ball, Joseph H., 283
Barkley, Alben
at Democratic National Convention, 144, 146, 148
vacation and, 353
as VP candidate/election and, 144, 146, 224, 343, 354
Barrows, Roberta, 12, 323
Baruch, Bernard, 24, 64
Batt, William (“Bill”), 176–77, 213, 226, 266
Begin, Menachem, 21–22
Behrens, Earl, 184
Belgrano, F. N., 113
Bell, David C., 148
Bell, Elliott, 182
Bell, Jack, 216, 235, 248, 307
Bentley, Elizabeth, 197–99
Berger, Meyer, 339
Berlin. See Germany, Berlin
Bernadotte, Folke/Plan, 210, 288, 301
Biffle, Leslie, 211–12
bikini bathing suit, 170
Blaine, Anita McCormick, 165
Blair House, 343
Bloch, Charles J., 147
Bogart, Humphrey, 55, 210
Bohlen, Charles, 64
Boring, Floyd, 227–28, 228n
Boston Daily Globe, 263, 297, 298
Bowles, Chester, 289
Boyle, Bill, 332
Boyle, Hal, 165
Bradley, Omar, 104, 155
Brandt, Raymond P., 307
Bray, William, 225
Bricker, John W., 329
Bridges, Styles, 180
Brigham, Helen, 283
Britain postwar, 59–60
British Mandate for Palestine, 22,
