548 “These Republican leaders . . .”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Public Papers and Addresses, 1944, p. 290.
548 “even the stoniest . . .”: Time, Oct. 2, 1944, p. 22.
548 In closing: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Public Papers and Addresses, 1944, p. 291.
549 “There were tears . . .”: Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, p. 478.
549 “The 1944 campaign . . .”: Time, Oct. 2, 1944, p. 22.
549 “Let’s not be squeamish . . .”: quoted in Jim Bishop, FDR’s Last Year (1974), p. 157.
549 train reached Brooklyn: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 278.
549 Dr. McIntire pleaded: Ross McIntire, White House Physician (1946), p. 207.
549 He had rooted for the Dodgers: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 279.
550 complete change of clothes: The Woman, May 1949, p. 112.
550 first time FDR had seen it: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 279.
550 FDR at ER’s apartment: TIR, p. 337.
550 “It was the only occasion . . .”: Grace Tully, F.D.R., My Boss (1949), p. 282.
550 “a map of the world . . .”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Public Papers and Addresses, 1944, p. 344.
551 Tully wondered: Tully, F.D.R., p. 282.
551 “Peace, like war . . .”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Public Papers and Addresses, 1944, p. 350.
551 “no trace . . .”: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 282.
551 “Not for a long time . . .”: NYT, Oct. 25, 1944, p. 23.
551 “Their enthusiasm for him . . .”: ER interview, Graff Papers, FDRL.
552 “brisk as a bee . . .”: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 287.
552 “the news from the Pacific . . .”: MD, Oct. 15, 1944.
552 “There were extremely light . . .”: Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny (1990), p. 563.
552 “painful memories”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 829.
552 “I am sure . . .”: ibid., pp. 829-30.
552 “swirled around among . . .”: Smith, Thank You, p. 159.
552 election results: Harold Gosnell, Champion Campaigner (1952), pp. 211-12.
553 “It looks like . . .”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Public Papers and Addresses, 1944, p. 414.
553 “sought sanctuary . . .”: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 294.
553 “the graceless Dewey”; “ . . . son of a bitch”: ibid.
553 “Word has just come . . .”: John Roosevelt to FDR, Nov. 8, 1944, box 20, Roosevelt Family Papers Donated by the Children, FDRL.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: “So Darned Busy”
554 Millions of people: Joseph P. Lash, A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962 (1984), p. 146.
554 “the tremendously increased . . .”: ibid., p. 149.
554 “Maybe I’d do . . .”: ibid., p. 150.
554 “If I did I’d lose . . .”: ibid.
555 “inadequate” . . . “great weariness . . .”: ibid.
555 one-third of civilian labor force: Richard Polenberg, ed., America at War (1972), p. 131.
555 79 percent said yes: LHJ, June 1944, p. 23.
555 “At the end . . .”: Ruth Milkman, The Dynamics of Gender at Work (1987), p. 103.
555 “There are two things . . .”: War Department Educational Manual (1944), p. 1, Record, Group 56, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
556 “Where I come from . . .”: ibid., p. 23.
556 “Women ought to be delighted . . .”: Frieda Miller, “Women’s Conference on War and Postwar Adjustments of Women Workers,” Dec. 1-5, 1944, Record Group 86, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
556 “it’s the only lasting . . .”: George Q. Flynn, The Mess in Washington (1979), p. 182.
556 “My position is to go . . .”: LHJ, June 1944, p. 22.
556 “Am I planning . . .”: ibid., p. 23.
556 “I really believe . . .”: Women’s Home Companion, July 1944, p. 24.
556 “found herself an authoress . . .”: MD, Oct. 20, 1944.
557 “gladly relinquish . . .”: NYT, April 25, 1944, p. 20.
557 “a good proportion”: NYT, April 24, 1944, p. 15.
557 “To give anyone who wants . . .”: NYT, April 25, 1944.
557 “Women are fully as capable . . .”: NYT, Oct. 12, 1944, p. 42.
557 “industry must not . . .”: NYT, Dec. 10, 1944, p. 42.
557 layoff rate 75 percent higher: Flynn, Mess in Washington, p. 181.
557 “Now that War . . .”: Milkman, The Dynamics of Gender at Work, p. 141.
557 Brewster Aeronautical: Walter Reuther to ER, July 11, 1944, ER Microfilm Collection, FDRL; NYT, May 21, 1944, p. 35.
558 “whereby every worker . . .”: MD, Sept. 20, 1944.
558 “for dangerous leakages . . .”: Bruce Catton, The War Lords of Washington (1969), p. 231.
558 “Many people seem . . .”: Byron Fairchild and Jonathan Grossman, The Army and Industrial Manpower (1959), p. 80.
558 “It’s tough to see . . .”: Catton, War Lords, pp. 267-68.
558 “ . . . Insufficient production . . .”: ibid., p. 268.
559 “one of the most . . .”: Donald M. Nelson, Arsenal of Democracy (1946), p. 409.
559 “neither facts nor logic . . .”: Catton, War Lords, p. 232.
559 “was motivated by . . .”: ibid., p. 253.
559 “You know what they’re doing . . .”: ibid, p. 290.
560 “the war within a war”: Nelson, Arsenal of Democracy, p. 43.
560 Nelson on mission to China: ibid., pp. 412-13.
560 “I don’t have to go”: Lash, World of Love, p. 151.
560 “You and Joe . . .”: ibid., p. 147.
560 “Mrs. Roosevelt’s feelings . . .”: ibid., pp. 154-55.
560 “But the weighing . . .”: ibid.
561 “A new LL crisis . . .”: AB to John Boettiger, Nov. 24, 1944, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.
561 “I am very depressed . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 157.
561 At Warm Springs: Theo Lippman, Jr., The Squire of Warm Springs (1977), pp. 15-17.
561 “a little house . . .”: ibid., p. 199.
561 Lucy in guest cottage: Lippman, Jr., Squire, p. 15.
562 “You know . . .”: Bernard Asbell, The FDR Memoirs (1973), p. 413.
562 “ . . . Mother was not capable . . .”: ibid.
562 “I realize very well . . .”: ER to FDR, Dec. 4, 1944, box 16, Roosevelt Family Papers Donated by the Children, FDRL.
562 “The reason I feel . . .”: ibid.
563 “Now if Clayton . . .”: ER to FDR, Dec 5, 1944, box 16, Roosevelt Family Papers Donated by the Children, FDRL.
563 “She insisted . . .”: interview with Howard Bruenn.
563 “ . . . any real pressure on Winston? . . .”: ER to FDR, Dec. 6, 1944, box 16, Roosevelt Family Papers Donated by the Children, FDRL.
563 FDR let Stimson know: Stimson Diary, Dec. 12, 1944, Yale University; Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948), p. 835.
563 “Of course I want you . . .”: FDR to Ickes, Dec. 9, 1944, box 75, PSF, FDRL.
564 “Your letter makes me . . .”: Ickes to FDR, Dec. 13, 1944, box 75, PSF, FDRL.
564 visibly pleased: interview with Howard Bruenn.
564 Her aunt Tissie: ER to FDR, Dec. 18, 1944, box 16, Roosevelt Family Papers Donated by the Children, FDRL.
564 “sounds as though . . .”: MD, Dec. 19, 1944.
564 December 16: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War (1989), p. 618.
564 “hunched in his chair . . .”: William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960), p. 1091.
565 “In great stress . . .”: Forrest C. Pogue, George C. Marshall: Organizer of Victory, 1943-1945 (1973), p. 486.
565 “He has been extremely . . .”: Stimson Diary, Dec. 31, 1944, Yale University.
565 “I cannot help thinking . . .”: MD, Dec. 20, 1944.
565 “an amazing performance”: Eric Larrabee, Commander in Chief (1987), p. 488.
565 casualties: Shirer, Rise and Fall, pp. 1095-96.
565 “without regard to color . . .”: Ulysses G. Lee, The Employment of Negro Troops (1966), p. 689.
566 four thousand volunteered: ibid., p. 693.
566 “We’ve been giving . . .”: Jean Byers, “A Study of the Negro in Military Service,” War Department Study, June 1947, p. 165.
566 “It is hard . . .”: ibid., p. 89.
566 “My brother is now . . .”: Mrs. Lewis to FDR, March 15, 1944, box 6, OF 93, FDRL.
566 “It is hard to decide . . .”: NR, March 13, 1944, p. 342.
566 “Negro is too dumb to fight”: PC, March 18, 1944, p. 1.
566 “to master . . .”; “It so happens . . .”: Stimson to Congressman Fish, Feb. 19, 1944, CR, p. 2007.
567 In the 1940s: Byers, “Negro in Military Service,” pp. 16-19.
567 “The consensus . . .”: Roy Wilkins to FDR, March 9, 1944, box 6, OF 93, FDRL.
567 “He considers it . . .”: Crisis, Sept. 1944, p. 290.
567 First volunteers: Byers, “Negro in Military Service,” p. 165.
567 “They were used . . .”: ibid., p. 167.
567 “When I heard about it . . .”: ibid., p. 174.
567 “You might think . . .”: ibid., p. 175.
568 “They are aggressive . . .”: ibid., p. 170.
568 “I am mighty proud . . .”: ibid.
568 “pretty, quiet and hard . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 161.
568 “Next year . . .”: Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough, A Rendezvous with Destiny: The Roosevelts in the White House (1975), p. 391.
568 “Father spoke . . .”: Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough, An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park (1973), p. 307.
568 “the most extraordinarily . . .”: interview with Elliott Roosevelt.
569 “I was delighted . . .”; “I hope . . .”: Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, Untold Story, p. 308.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: “It Is Good to Be Home”
570 “President in gleeful . . .”: William D. Hassett, Off the Record with F.D.R. (1958), p. 309.
570 “very well”: Smith conference notes, Jan. 1, 1945, Harold Smith Papers, FDRL.
570 “He had the pallor . . .”: quoted in Collier’s, Sept. 21, 1946, pp. 102-3.
570 “from looking pretty well . . .”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.
571 story of two senators: interview with Eliot Janeway.
571 “realizing full well . . .”: TIR, p. 339; see also ER interview, Graff Papers, FDRL.
571 “bulged at the corners . . .”: TIR, p. 339.
571 Jimmy later recalled: interview with James Roosevelt.
572 “Housekeeper Rejects . . .”: NYT, Jan. 20, 1945, p. 1.
572 “We aren’t going to have . . .”: ibid.
572 joked with AB and Grace: Grace Tully, F.D.R., My Boss (1949), p. 115.
572 “plain food . . .”: ibid.
572 “Who is there here . . .”: Samuel I. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt (1952), p. 516.
572 “Dog catchers have . . .”: Michael F. Reilly, Reilly of the White House (1947), p. 516.
572 “The day was bitterly cold . . .”: Katherine Marshall, Together (1946), p. 232.
572 “a test of courage . . .”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945 (1950), p. 523.
572 two thousand guests, largest luncheon: Bess Furman, Washington By-Line (1949), p. 312; NYT, Jan. 21, 1945, p. 3.
572 “He was thoroughly chilled . . .”: James Roosevelt and Sidney Schalett, Affectionately, F.D.R. (1959), p. 355.
573 “Oh, Mrs. Perkins . . .”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.
573 chickens Mrs. Nesbitt had bought: Victoria Henrietta Nesbitt, White House Diary (1948), p. 300.
573 “Mrs. Roosevelt, I wish to ask . . .”: Katherine Marshall, Together, p. 232.
573 “would finally be going . . .”: Lillian Rogers Parks, The Roosevelts: A Family in Turmoil (1981), p. 261.
573 “If you go . . .”: TIR, p. 339.
573 “ . . . Anna can do things . . .”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.
574 “I wanted desperately . . .”: Bernard Asbell, Mother and Daughter (1988), pp. 181-82.
574 “I am tired and very depressed . . .”: Joseph P. Lash, A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962 (1984), p. 164.
574 “Over there . . .”: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 187.
574 “Ocean voyage is . . .”: AB to John Boettiger, Jan. 27, 1945, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.
574 “Oh darling . . .”: ibid.
574 “a lot of little gadgets”: AB to John Boettiger, Jan. 30, 1945, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.
574 five cakes: ibid.
575 brass ashtray: Foreign Relations of the United States: The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945 (1955).
575 “Anna made the dinner . . .”: James F. Byrnes, Speaking Frankly (1947), p. 22.
575 “Our birthday dinner . . .”: AB to John Boettiger, Jan. 31, 1945, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.
575 radio silence: AB notes on Yalta, Feb. 1, 1945, box 84, Halsted Papers, FDRL.
575 “Of course Jones . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 165.
575 “a very sad situation . . .”: AB to John Boettiger, Feb. 6, 1945, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.
575 WC running a temperature: Lord Moran, Churchill—The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965 (1966), p. 232.
575 “like a poor hot pink . . .”: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. VII, Road to Victory (1986), p. 1163.
576 “in the doldrums”: Moran, Churchill, p. 233.
576 “It is not the flesh . . .”: ibid., p. 232.
576 “sharing his secret . . .”; “someone in whom . . .”: ibid., p. 174.
576 “He was so weak . . .”: Edward Stettinius, Roosevelt and the Russians (1949), p. 57.
576 “the terrible change in him”: Sarah Churchill, A Thread in the Tapestry (1967), p. 76.
576 “my friend has arrived . . .”: Gilbert, Churchill, vol. VII, p. 1167.
576 “bright charm . . .”: Sarah Churchill, Thread in Tapestry, p. 76.
576 “He must have noticed . . .”: Moran, Churchill p. 234.
576 “Harry demanded a drink . . .”: AB notes on Yalta, Feb. 2, 1945, box 84, Halsted Papers, FDRL.
577 “as in her old age . . .”: Moran, Churchill, p. 234.
577 “so that he could sleep . . .”: AB notes on Yalta, Feb. 3, 1945, box 84, Halsted Papers, FDRL.
577 “tough old bird . . .”: ibid.
577 Relaxed and fortified: Sarah Churchill, Thread in Tapestry, p. 78.
577 Lividia Palace: Stettinius, Roosevelt and the Russians, pp. 81-82.
577 “a block and a half away”: AB notes on Yalta, Feb. 3, 1945, box 84, Halsted Papers, FDRL.
577 Russian generals talked from maps: Stettinius, Roosevelt and the Russians, p. 239.
578 “This is the first time . . .”: ibid., p. 240.
578 “sitting on tacks . . .”: AB notes on Yalta, Feb. 4, 1945, box 84, Halsted Papers, FDRL.
578 “Fire was shooting . . .”: ibid.
578 “Stalin made it . . .”: Charles Bohlen, minutes, Tripartite Dinner Meeting, 8:30 p.m., William Rigdon Papers, FDRL.
578 “FDR seemed happy . . .”: AB notes, Feb. 4, 1945, box 84, Halsted Papers, FDRL.
579 “Life is quickly . . .”: AB notes, Feb. 5, 1945, box 84, Halsted Papers, FDRL.
579 “to get his version . . .”: ibid.
579 “Just between you and me . . .”; “I have found out through Bruenn . . .”: AB to John Boettiger, Feb. 6, 1945, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.
579 “I am using . . .”: ibid.
580 “I wish Harry . . .”: Moran, Churchill, p. 241.
580 HH persuaded FDR: Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948), p. 859.
580 Dumbarton Oaks: ibid., p. 854.
581 issue not so easy for FDR: ibid., pp
. 855-57.
581 “events were in the saddle”: “it would have taken . . .”: Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946 (1975), p. 405.
581 “The most important matter . . .”: James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1970), p. 570.
581 “The Prime Minister . . .”: ibid.
581 “reorganized on a broader . . .”: ibid., p. 572.
582 “so elastic . . .”: William Leahy, I Was There (1950), pp. 315-16.
582 “I know, Bill . . .”: ibid.
582 “naïvete, ignorance . . .”: Burns, Soldier of Freedom, p. 572.
582 FDR negotiated secret agreement: Stettinius, Roosevelt and the Russians, p. 255.
582 forty-five standing toasts: Bohlen, minutes, Tripartite Dinner, William Rigdon Papers, FDRL.
582 “We have wound up . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 168.
583 “LL was really so happy . . .”: John Boettiger to AB, Feb. 11, 1945, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.
583 “What a lonesome barn . . .”: John Boettiger to AB, Jan. 23, 1945, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.
583 “Lt. Conrad came to lunch . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 167.
583 “All the world looks smiling! . . .”: ibid., p. 168.
583 mood of “supreme exultation”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 869.
583 “a landmark . . .”; “to justify or surpass . . .”: quoted in Ross McIntire, White House Physician (1946), p. 221.
583 “We really believed . . .”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 870.
583 “Why did Harry . . .”; “The president was good and mad . . .”: interview with Robert Hopkins.
584 “One moment he was breathing . . .”: AB notes on Yalta, Feb. 20, 1945, box 84, Halsted Papers, FDRL.
584 “He was very, very . . .”; “I shall miss him . . .”: interview with Howard Bruenn.
584 “Many in Washington . . .”: Rosenman, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 524.
584 “It was a sorry ship . . .”; “none too soon”: ibid., p. 527.
584 “leading you to forget”: ER interview, Graff Papers, FDRL.
584 “Look at the communiqué . . .”: Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It (1946), p. 246.
585 “To a doctor’s eye . . .”: Moran, Churchill, p. 242.
585 “The signs of deterioration . . .”: Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, p. 389.
585 “Nevertheless he had blocked . . .”: ibid.
585 “It was my feeling . . .”: Leahy, I Was There, p. 321.
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