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  there wasn’t a German bullet: HST to EW, February 1, 1918, Dear Bess, 242.

  “Galahad after the Grail”: Autobiography, 41.

  passes eye exam: U.S. Army Medical Records, August 9, 1917, HSTL.

  On July 4, 1917, when Harry turned up: HST to EW, July 4, 1918, HSTL.

  “It was sure enough cold”: HST to EW, October 9, 1917, HSTL.

  “A tent fifty yards away”: HST to EW, October 18, 1917, Dear Bess, 231–32.

  “all the Lillian Russells”: HST to EW, September 30, 1917, ibid., 228.

  artillery terms: Lee, The Artillery Man, 326.

  “I have been squads east”: HST to EW, February 3, 1918, Dear Bess, 242.

  “I learned how to say Verdun”: HST to EW, October 27, 1918, HSTL.

  “He made us feel”: HST to EW, January 27, 1918, Dear Bess, 241.

  “one of our most effective officers”: Thomson, Virgil Thomson, 35.

  “I have a Jew in charge”: HST to EW, October 28, 1917, Dear Bess, 233.

  “Each day Harry would write a letter”: Mayerberg, “Edward Jacobson: President Truman’s Buddy,” Liberal Judaism, August 1945.

  “I guess I should be very proud”: HST to EW, February 3, 1918, Dear Bess, 242.

  “real good conversation”: HST to EW, February 23, 1918, ibid., 245–46.

  “Jacobson says he’d go”: HST to EW, November 24, 1917, ibid., 238.

  “I didn’t know how crazy”: HST to EW, January 10, 1918, ibid., 240.

  Tiernan provides whiskey: HST to EW, October 23, 1917, ibid., 232.

  “We elected Klemm”: Truman interview with Jonathan Daniels, November 12, 1949.

  “He taught me more about handling men”: Autobiography, 44.

  “You speak pretty good English”: Ted Marks, Oral History, HSTL.

  “No man can be that good”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 128.

  Berry would stalk up and down: Steinberg, 43.

  “I suppose you will have to spend”: HST to EW, March 16, 1918, HSTL.

  “I’d give anything in the world”: HST to EW, March 20, 1918, Dear Bess, 251.

  “The phone’s yours”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 129.

  “On leave in New York”: HST to EW, March 24 and March 26, 1918, Dear Bess, 252–53.

  a “Kike town”: HST to EW, March 27, 1918, ibid, 254.

  “Israelitist extraction”: HST to EN, ca. 1918, HSTL.

  “I imagine his vision”: Harry Vaughan, Oral History, HSTL.

  “There we were watching”: Autobiography, 45.

  He ached for home: HST to EW, April, 1918, Dear Bess, 256.

  arrival at Brest: Autobiography, 45.

  At the hotel in Brest: HST to EW, April 14, 1918, Dear Bess, 257.

  The whole surrounding countryside: HST to EW, April 23, 1918, ibid, 260.

  “The people generally treat us fine”: HST to EW, April 12, 1918, ibid, 259.

  “I’m for the French more and more”: HST to EW, June 27, 1918, ibid, 264.

  They also knew how to build: HST to EW, May 19, 1918, ibid, 262.

  “They are the most sentimental people”: HST to EW, June 2, 1918, HSTL.

  “Je ne comprends pas”: HST to EW, April 17, 1918, Dear Bess, 259.

  determined to drink France dry: HST to EW, April 14, 1918, ibid, 258.

  “Wandering through dark streets”: Quoted in Freidel, Over There, p. 80.

  “Personally, I think Harry”: Edgar Hinde, Oral History, HSTL.

  “Wish I could step in”: HST to EW, April 17, 1918, Dear Bess, 259.

  the first-class coach: HST to EN, May 17, 1918, HSTL

  account of château: HST to EW, April 28, 1918, Dear Bess, 260.

  “You’d never think that a war”: HST to EN, May 1, 1918, HSTL.

  “and then the clock on the Hôtel de Ville”: HST to EW, April 28, 1918, HSTL.

  “I’ve studied more and worked harder”: HST to EW, May 26, 1918, HSTL.

  “We had a maneuver yesterday”: HST to EW, May 26, 1918, HSTL.

  Sundays at church: HST to EW, April 28, 1918, Dear Bess, 261.

  “and I’m for helping them”: HST to EW, May 5, 1918, ibid.

  discovered volumes of music: HST to EW, May 19, 1918, HSTL.

  “He had maps”: Arthur Wilson, Oral History, HSTL.

  “I just barely slipped through”: HST to EW, June 14, 1918, Dear Bess, 263.

  “old rube” from Missouri: HST to EW, June 27, 1918, ibid, 263.

  value of a university education: HST to EW, July 22, 1918, ibid, 267.

  “No I haven’t seen any girls”: HST to EW, June 27, 1918, ibid, 264.

  “I look like Siam’s King”: HST to EW, June 19, 1918, HSTL.

  “That was one of the things”: Cather, One of Ours, 319.

  “Dear Harry, May this photograph”: EW inscribed photograph, HSTL.

  “They were a pretty wild bunch”: Hinde, Oral History, HSTL.

  “a sitting duck”: Eugene Donnelly quoted in Miller, 97.

  “a stirring among the fellows”: Ibid, 96.

  “a rather short fellow”: Vere Leigh, Oral History, HSTL.

  “You could see that he was”: Edward McKim, Oral History, HSTL.

  “I could just see my hide”: Autobiography, 46.

  “Never on the front”: “Pickwick Papers,” HSTL.

  Ridge recollection: Miller, 96.

  “He was so badly scared”: “Pickwick Papers,” HSTL.

  “And then we gave Captain Truman”: Leigh, Oral History, HSTL.

  “He didn’t hesitate at all”: Ibid.

  “I didn’t come over here”: Daniels, The Man of Independence, 95.

  “Well, I would say”: Wilson, Oral History, HSTL.

  “You soldier for me”: Ibid.

  “soldier, soldier, all the time”: Lee, 33–34.

  “Talk about your infantryman”: HST to EN, August 5, 1918, HSTL.

  “You’ve no idea what an immense responsibility”: HST to EW, August 13, 1918, HSTL.

  train passing close enough to Paris: War Diary of Captain Keith W. Dancy, Battery A, Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri.

  “It was just a quiet sector”: Frederick J. Bowman, Oral History, HSTL.

  “It was surely some steep hill”: HST to EW, November 23, 1918, HSTL.

  “we were firing away”: Leigh, Oral History, HSTL.

  “gasping like a catfish”: Columbus (Kansas) Daily Advocate, August 16, 1950.

  “I led the parade!”: Walter Menefee, Oral History, HSTL.

  “I got up and called them everything”: Daniels, 96.

  “The men think I am not much”: HST to EW, September 8, 1918, HSTL.

  “It was literally true”: Lee, 67.

  Bennett Clark incident: Steinberg, 47.

  “Well, I was scared green”: HST to EW, November 23, 1918, HSTL.

  “September 10. Leave Coyviller”: HST War Diary, HSTL.

  “Who can ever forget”: Lee, 75.

  “So slow was our progress”: Ibid, 72.

  “American drive begins”: HST War Diary, HSTL.

  “The great adventure”: HST to EW, September 15, 1918, Dear Bess, 271.

  “We were doing our best to finish”: HST to EW, September 15, 1918, HSTL.

  “And there was an order out”: Floyd Ricketts, Oral History, HSTL.

  “like a crazy man”: McKim, Oral History, HSTL.

  Tiernan’s coat: Ibid.

  “The Colonel insults me shamefully”: HST War Diary, HSTL.

  “The weather was bad”: Ricketts, Oral History, HSTL.

  “the history of the world”: Miller, 101.

  “If all priests were like him: Ibid, 103.

  “I stripped the battery for action”: HST to EW, November 23, 1918, HSTL.

  “Everything was now in readiness”: Lee, 93.

  “Just a word to you”: Toland, No Man’s Land, 403.

  Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who took off: Ibid, 432.

  “That gun squad worked”: Harry E. Murphy, Oral History, H
STL.

  “My guns were so hot”: HST to EW, November 23, 1918, HSTL.

  “confusing in the extreme”: Marshall, Memoirs of My Services in the World War, 160.

  At a crossroads near Cheppy: Truman, “The Military Career of a Missourian,” HSTL.

  “Truman didn’t panic”: Leigh, Oral History, HSTL.

  “Truman sent back the data”: McKim, Oral History, HSTL.

  “You know…when you’re in the artillery”: Leigh, Oral History, HSTL.

  “The artillery fire has been something”: Minder, This Man’s War, 328.

  “Well, men,” Miles said: Lee, 167.

  “The coolness, the steady courage”: Ibid., 168.

  “It isn’t as bad as I thought”: HST to EW, October 8, 1918, Dear Bess, 274.

  “He was the Captain”: Leigh, Oral History, HSTL.

  “The most terrific experience”: HST to EW, October 8, 1918, Dear Bess, 274.

  “all the comforts of home”: HST to EW, October 30, 1918’, ibid., 276.

  consistently clean and dapper: Vaughan, Oral History, HSTL.

  “where every time a shell lights”: HST to EW, November 1, 1918, Dear Bess, 277–78.

  “When the moon rises”: HST to EW, October 30, 1918, ibid., 276.

  sends a poppy: HST to EN, November 1, 1918, HSTL.

  “He handed me a piece”: Meisburger quoted in Peoria Journal-Star, May 6, 1970.

  “My battery fired the assigned barrages”: Weintraub, A Stillness Heard Round the World, 169.

  “When the firing ceased”: Ibid.

  “People went so wild”: Ibid, 170.

  “You’ve no idea”: HST to EN, December 18, 1918, HSTL.

  “We were just—”: Leigh, Oral History, HSTL.

  “what you’d expect at the Gaiety”: HST to EN, December 18, 1918, HSTL.

  Paris tour: HST to EW, November 29, 1918, Dear Bess, 283.

  “as wild as any place”: HST to EN, December 18, 1918, HSTL.

  “a dandy place”: HST to EW, November 29, 1918, Dear Bess, 283.

  “beautifully sung”: HST to EW, December 18, 1918, ibid., 284.

  “To keep from going crazy”: Steinberg, 50.

  “Every day nearly someone”: HST to EW, January 12, 1919, Dear Bess, 292.

  “Would as leave lost a son”: HST War Diary, HSTL.

  “It’s some trick to keep”: HST to EN, January 20, 1919, HSTL.

  the possibility of running for political office: HST to EW, November 1, 1918, Dear Bess, 277.

  “I can’t see what on earth”: HST to EW, December 19, 1918, ibid., 287.

  “thirsted for a West Point education”: HST to EW, December 14, 1918, ibid., 286.

  “back to God’s country again”: HST to EW, November 1, 1918, ibid., 277.

  “Maybe have a little politics”: HST to EW, December 14, 1918, ibid., 285.

  “We’ll be married anywhere”: HST to EW, February 18, 1919, ibid., 296.

  “You may invite the entire 35th Division”: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 77.

  “As far as we’re concerned”: HST to EN, January 20, 1919, HSTL.

  he bought a wedding ring: Truman, 78.

  violently seasick nearly the whole way: HST to EW, April 24, 1919, Dear Bess, 297–98.

  Part Two

  5. Try, Try Again

  “I’ve had a few setbacks”: Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 70.

  nineteenth-century man: Ibid., 43.

  “I want you to be happy”: HST to EWT, July 9, 1925, Dear Bess, 319.

  “It was characteristic”: Leuchtenburg, Perils of Prosperity, 83.

  “I have always wondered”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 127.

  answering letters from the mothers and fathers: Miller, 97.

  “Well, I remember when he came back”: Ethel Noland, Oral History, HSTL.

  last heated argument: HST to EWT, June 29, 1949, Dear Bess, 558.

  Truman wedding: Truman, Bess W. Truman, 79–80.

  “I hope you have the same success”: Unidentified letter from member of Battery D, Waco, Texas, to HST, July 15, 1919; HSTL.

  “Well, Mrs. Truman, you’ve lost Harry”: Ted Marks, Oral History, HSTL.

  Mary Jane had cooked noon dinner: Miller, 107.

  “You’ve just never seen such a radiant”: Noland, Oral History, HSTL.

  “a very, very difficult person”: Miller, 106.

  “I didn’t know”: Quoted in Daniels, The Man of Independence, 100.

  “Twelfth Street was in its heyday”: Ibid., 105–06.

  “We’d all drop in”: Edward McKim, Oral History, HSTL.

  “But Harry seemed glad”: Miller, Harry S. Truman, 155.

  “You can’t quit them”: Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 92.

  “I see no reason”: Unidentified letter to HST, December 14, 1919, HSTL.

  “Well, sir, don’t forget me”: Eugene Donnelly to HST, October 4, 1920, HSTL.

  “We’d have done anything for him”: Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 97.

  husband never worked as hard: Ibid., 112.

  Battery D reunion: E. J. Becker to HST, March 22, 1921, HSTL.

  “He would get out and go’: Marks, Oral History, HSTL.

  Dr. A. Gloom Chaser: HSTL.

  war memorial ceremonies: Kansas City Times, October 17, 1921.

  “That was when we took”: Quoted in Daniels, 119.

  “high jinks”: McKim, Oral History, HSTL.

  a sign of anti-Semitism: Miller, Plain Speaking, 106.

  Eddie’s frayed suit: Daniels, 109.

  “It was a nice store”: Edgar Hinde, Oral History, HSTL.

  “There goes Harry”: Gaylon Babcock, Oral History, HSTL.

  “a nice boy”: HST to EWT, September 20, 1921, Dear Bess, 312.

  “I’ve got friends”: Quoted in Reddig, Tom’s Town, 28.

  “There is no kinder hearted”: Kansas City Times, March 26, 1892.

  “No deserving man”: Quoted in Dorsett, The Pendergast Machine, 21.

  reputation of saloon keepers: Kansas City Star files, undated.

  “I never needed a crooked”: Quoted in Reddig, 32.

  “His support of any man”: Ibid., 72.

  “Brother Tom will make”: Ibid.

  Thomas Joseph Pendergast: Ibid., 33.

  “Yes. Why not?”: O. K. Armstrong, “Crusade in Kansas City,” This Week, March 13, 1938.

  “He was a master!”: Matt Devoe, author’s interview.

  “that fellow could probably talk”: Conn Withers, author’s interview.

  “Oh, he was a wonderful man”: Geraldine Ketchum, author’s interview.

  “No, I never had a sense of evil”: Monsignor Arthur Tighe, author’s interview.

  Tom kept to himself: Mason, Truman and the Pendergasts, 33.

  “You can’t make a man good”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 12, 1937.

  “We have the theory”: Ibid.

  “Let the river take its course”: Mason, 25.

  “Politics is a business”: Kansas City Star, March 31, 1966.

  “When a man’s in need”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 12, 1937.

  happy to be “repeaters”: Ketchum, author’s interview.

  woman in the hospital laundry: Ibid.

  “Oh, I knew it was illegal”: Ibid.

  “When we come over the hill”: Reddig, 34.

  “Stealing elections”: Quoted in Mason, 46.

  Fifty-Fifty Agreement: Dorsett, 62–63.

  “enforcer of loyalty”: Reddig, 97.

  “tenacious fighting type”: Unidentified obituary of Pendergast, September 2, 1929.

  Mike passed over because of temper: Robert Pendergast, author’s interview.

  idea of running Harry: Joseph and Catherine Pruett, author’s interview.

  If Captain Truman was all Jim said: Ibid., and Robert Pendergast, author’s interview.

  “They are trying to run me” HST to Ernest Schmidt, February 4, 1922, HSTL.

  “Now, I’m going to t
ell you” Quoted in Daniels, 114.

  “Old Tom Pendergast wanted”: Harry Vaughan, Oral History, HSTL.

  “Went into business all enthusiastic”: “Pickwick Papers”, HSTL.

  “I loved him as I did my own daddy”: Ibid.

  “feeling fairly blue”: Daniels, 109.

  “Well, I’ve got to eat”: Ibid., 110–.

  “mess up” his life with politics: Ibid., 110–.

  “They always like to pick winners”: Noland, Oral History, HSTL.

  auditorium at Lee’s Summit: Lee’s Summit Journal, March 9, 1922.

  “thoroughly rattled”: Quoted in Truman, Mr. Citizen, 156.

  “I was scared worse”: HST Diary, September 23, 1952, in Ferrell, ed., Off the Record 271.

  “I knew Harry Truman”: Stephen Slaughter, author’s interview.

  “the poorest effort of a speech”: Hinde Oral History, HSTL.

  “If you’re going to be in politics”: Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 128.

  “We’d do whatever was necessary”: Ibid.

  sacks of cement: Memoirs, Vol. I, 137.

  to arrive by airplane: McKim, Oral History, HSTL.

  “I am now going to tell you”: Independence Examiner, July 18, 1922.

  “I want men for road overseers”: Quoted in Daniels, 142.

  “You have heard it said”: Ibid., 118.

  Edgar Hinde urged Harry: Hinde, Oral History, HSTL.

  “They didn’t just hate Catholics”: Quoted in Reddig, 113.

  “The smell of old ‘alky’ ” Independence Examiner, August 1, 1922.

  Shannon henchmen: Ibid., August 2, 1922.

  Gibson’s 45-caliber: Ibid.

  Fifty-fifty was finished: Kansas City Times, September 2, 1929.

  “We ran the county”: Memoirs, Vol. I, 137.

  “When a road project” Independence Examiner, July 9, 1919.

  suffered a second miscarriage: Truman, 88.

  “I wish you would send me”: HST to Ralph Truman, February 23, 1923, HSTL.

  “It is now 10:20”: Quoted in Truman, 90.

  She would wait for hours: Ibid.

  “You be a good girl”: HST to EWT, July 21, 1923, Dear Bess, 314.

  Nurse Kinnaman’s account of baby’s birth: From reporter Champ Clark’s files dated February 1951, Time-Warner archives.

  “He has the most magnetic personality”: Quoted in Schlesinger, The Crisis of the Old Order, 376–77.

  “He kept his feelings to himself” Quoted in Miller, Plain Speaking, 127.

  “The record of the county court”: Kansas City Star, July 17, 1924.

  “To even talk about throwing” Independence Sentinel, undated, General Family Files, HSTL.

 

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