by A. J. Baime
UN and, 76–77, 106
US public opinion/Gallop poll, 76–77
See also Palestine/“Palestine problem”
Jews
concentration camps and, 5–6, 23–24
post-World War II situation, 5–6
US electorate statistics/influence, 24
See also Jewish homeland/Israel
Johnson brothers killing black voter, 220–21
Johnson, Louis, 175, 223
Johnson, Lyndon B., 255, 283, 352
Johnston, Olin D., 192–93, 342
Johnston, Vic, 186
Jones, John C., 18–19
Jones, Joseph M., 62–63
K
Kaltenborn, H. V, 330
Kansas City Star, 294, 341
Kelly, Ed, 292
Kelly, Frank, 150, 297
Kennan, George, 60
Kennedy, John F., 41–42
Kent, Carleton, 313, 323, 333
Kent, Frank R., 246
Key Largo (movie), 210, 251
King David Hotel bombing, 21–22
Kinsey, Alfred, 170
Kiplinger (magazine), 315
Knous, William Lee, 245
Korean War, 287–88, 350, 351
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 160, 220, 276
L
Land, Edwin H., 170
Landon, Alf, 57, 97, 344
Lane Act (1795), 122
Laney, Benjamin Travis, 100
Lansky, Meyer, 53
Lee, Robert E., 240
Lehman, Herbert, 55, 303
Leviero, Anthony, 311
Lewis, Clyde, 113
Lewis, Fulton Jr., 183
Lewis, Sinclair, 296
Liberal Party hall mix-up, 302–3
Life (magazine), 125, 170, 315
Lilienthal, David, 98, 125, 223, 258
Lincoln, Abraham, 50, 97, 188–89, 317
Lockwood, Paul, 114, 293
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 345
Logan Act (1799), 68
London Daily Mail, 316
London Times, 59
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 345
Los Angeles Times, 50, 246, 269, 294, 336
Lovett, Robert, 107, 108, 289, 291, 325
Lowenthal, Max, 24
Luce, Clare Boothe, 57, 135–36
Luciano, Lucky, 53, 54
M
MacArthur, Douglas, 16, 81–82, 113
McCarthy, Joseph, 41–42
McCullers, Carson, 297
McCullough, David, 342
McDonald, John, 288
McEnery, John P., 225–26
McGill, Ralph, 315
McGovern, George, 163
McGrath, Howard I., 250, 253, 339
McGrath, J. Howard
civil rights and, 101–2
Democratic National Committee/Truman and, 102, 175–76, 177, 224, 323, 331–32, 337, 338, 342
McKim, Eddie, 125
MacLeish, Archibald, 297
McLemore, Henry, 127
McNaughton, Frank, 237
Macy, Kingsland, 202
Madison Square Garden
history, 66, 66n
Taft-Hartley bill and, 74
Wallace and, 66–67
Mailer, Norman, 93, 163
Manchester Guardian, 316
Manhattan Project, 14, 91
See also atomic weapons/bombs
Mann, Thomas, 93
Marcantonio, Vito, 222
Marked Woman (movie), 55
Marshall, George C.
Berlin/war possibility and, 155
China/communism and, 61
commencement address/Marshall Plan, 65, 66
Greek/Turkish aid and, 60, 61, 62
Jewish homeland and, 77, 107–8, 291, 301–2
Stalin meeting/aftermath, 64–65
Truman and, 60, 98, 269
Marshall Plan
description, 65–66
Soviets and, 102, 103
support/opposition, 80–81, 347
US House passage, 104
Wallace and, 67, 117, 206, 207, 264, 284
Marshall, Thurgood, 192
Martin, Joe
background/description, 50, 231
Dewey and, 299–300
on election (1948), 345
Greek/Turkish aid and, 62, 63
Republican National Convention (1948) and, 134, 135
Truman and, 10, 151
Masaryk, Jan, 102
Mason, George, 240
Maxwell, John, 319
Maybank, Burnet, 21
Mead, James M., 48
Mellett, Lowell, 131
Memorial Hall (Truman Memorial Building), 317–18, 317n
Mencken, H. L., 135, 163, 202
Merkur (Munich newspaper), 337
Mesta, Perle, 257
Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 29
Miall, Leonard, 232
Middle East
bombing Arab office building, Jaffa, 105
postwar situation, 6
See also Jewish homeland/Israel; specific events/locations; specific individuals/groups
Miller, Arthur, 93
Miller, Donald P., 322
Miller, Emma Guffey, 150
Millikin, Eugene, 127, 156
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 210, 343
Morin, Relman, 163
Morison, H. Graham, 333–34
Morse, David, 176–77
Mostel, Zero, 67
Mundt, Karl, 197, 198
Murphy, Charlie, 100, 126, 128, 179, 213–14, 227
Murrow, Edward R., 6, 349, 354
N
NAACP
description, 192
Elmore case, 192
helping blacks vote, 220
Truman’s speech to members/aftermath, 71–73
White meeting with Truman, 18–20
See also specific individuals
NASCAR beginnings, 170
Nash, Philleo, 178, 308, 309, 310, 324, 346–47
Nashville Banner, 238
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. See NAACP
National Security Act (1947), 75
National Security Council, 75
Nation, The, 300–301
New Republic, 87
Newsweek (magazine), 270–71, 315, 341, 347
New Yorker, 134, 235
New York Daily News, 331
New York Herald Times, 324
New York Post, 24
New York Star, 208
New York Times/polls, 5, 75, 107, 120, 134, 164, 182, 194, 195, 202, 219, 229, 235, 242, 246, 258, 282, 293, 294, 311, 315, 316, 336, 339
Nicholson, Henry J., 26, 233
Niles, David, 20, 23, 24
1948 summer (US)
cars/NASCAR and, 170
cigarettes and, 170
consumerism/products, 169–71
offices/office buildings and, 170–71
situation/inventions (overview), 169–71
See also specific events
Nixon, Isaiah voting/murder, 220–21, 320
Nixon, Richard
daughter’s engagement party/Dewey and, 351
on election (1948), 345
HUAC/Hiss and, 197, 199, 203, 204, 205
midterm elections (1946) and, 41–42
Republican trend and, 50
Nixon, Robert, 128, 147, 201–2, 297, 304, 313, 333, 335
Nokrashy Pasha, 23
Noland, Mary Ethel, 327–28
Noyes, David, 293
O
Odets, Clifford, 93
O’Dwyer, William, 310
Operation Sandstone, 121, 154
Othman, Fred, 180
P
Palestine/“Palestine problem”
British Mandate for Palestine, 22, 76, 105, 107, 108–9
oil and, 22, 25
Truman administration discussions, 22–24
See also Jewish homeland/Israel
Parker, George F., 118
Pearson, Drew,
25–26, 142–43, 224, 315, 321, 332
Pegler, Westbrook, 116, 162–63, 165, 242–43, 295–96
Pendergast, Jim, 29
Pendergast, Mike, 29–30
Pendergast, Tom (“Big Boss”), 30, 31
Pepper, Claude, 142
Pierce, Thomas W, 344
“Politics of 1948, The” memo (Rowe), 95–98, 101, 106
polls. See Gallop polls; Roper, Elmo/polls
Potsdam Conference/Declaration, 3, 7, 13
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 16–17
presidential airplane nickname, 65
Presidential Succession Act (1947), 42n
President’s Committee on Civil Rights, 20
Pressman, Lee, 87, 199, 205, 222
Progressive Citizens of America (PCA), 88
Progressive Party. See Wallace, Henry campaign for presidency
Prohibition, 53
Propper, Karl, 120
R
racism
against black veterans, 18–20
black vote suppression, 189, 192–93, 195, 219, 220–21, 255
federal law against lynching and, 100
following Truman’s NAACP/civil rights speech, 72, 73
in Georgia, 219–21
lynchings/stories, 18–20, 194, 208, 286
segregation and, 16–17, 20–21, 72, 73, 101, 188, 193, 205–8, 220, 238
Truman opposing, 20–21, 71–73
Wakulla Springs, Florida and, 100
“white supremacy” and, 71, 72, 73, 100–101, 160, 161, 187–88, 189, 190, 191, 193, 219, 220, 311, 342
See also Dixiecrats; southern Democrats; specific individuals/groups
Racket Busters (movie), 55
Rackoff, Dorothy Bell, 344
Ravensbruck, 5–6
Rayburn, Sam, 151, 162, 255, 256
Reconstruction, 189
Redding, Jack
on Stassen, 82
Truman/DNC and, 74, 102, 123, 175, 278–79, 298–99, 324
“red herring” comment (Truman), 201–3, 253, 257, 298
“red herring” meaning, 201
Red Scare
beginnings, 201, 203–4
Hollywood and, 251
See also HUAC hearings
Red Shirts/movement, 189
Reece, B. Carroll, 136
Republican National Committee (1948 campaign) headquarters, 175
Republican National Convention (1948)
balloting and, 136
Dewey and, 133, 134, 136–37
GOP candidate selection and, 81, 133
Little Eva (elephant) and, 134, 135
official plank, 139
polls/media predictions, 134
schism between Dewy-Warren platform/Eightieth Congress, 139, 145
speeches, 135–36
television and, 135, 140
Truman and, 139, 140
VP candidate/possibilities and, 137–39
Reuter, Ernst, 211
Reuther, Wallace, 119
Revenue Act (1948), 127
Rhee, Syngman, 287, 288
Rickard, Tex, 66
Rivers, Mendel, 172
Roach, Neale, 151, 175
Roberts, Ernest, 286
Robeson, Paul, 163–64, 222, 334
Robinson, Edward G., 120
Robinson, Jackie, 134
Roerich, Nicholas
background/description, 89–91
Wallace letters (“guru letters”), 90, 116, 162–63, 164, 242–43
Romagna, Jack, 227
Roosevelt, Eleanor
on HUAC, 200
on Jewish homeland, 24
Truman and, 4, 71, 104, 179, 278–79, 296–97
Roosevelt, Elliot, 67, 93
Roosevelt, Franklin
death/Truman becoming president, 4, 6, 33
description, 56
on Dewey, 57, 271
New Deal/other policies and, 7, 8–9, 31, 50, 83, 161
presidential elections and, 53, 55, 191
time as president, 7
Truman supporting, 31
vice president and, 32–33
Roosevelt, James, II, 127, 142
Roosevelt, Theodore
becoming/as president, 9, 145, 234, 322
Dewey/Dewey’s family and, 51, 52
liberalism and, 52
New York governor mansion and, 47
Roper, Elmo/polls, 143, 172, 212, 246, 315, 348–49
Rose, Billy, 17
Rosenman, Samuel, 7–8, 9, 171
Ross, Charlie
background/description, 12, 245
Truman and, 9, 12, 39, 41, 42, 126, 268, 323, 331, 335
Rovere, Richard, 25, 235
Rowe, James H., Jr./memo, 95–98
Rowley, James J., 233, 333
Royall, Kenneth, 140, 153
“rubber” capital of US, 270
Russell, Bertrand, 203
Russell, Richard B., 73, 147
Ruth, Babe, 184
S
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 294, 307
San Francisco Chronicle, 184
Sarnoff, David, 171
Sauter, Jim, 332
Scott, Hugh, 139, 156, 157, 182, 183, 273
Seeger, Pete, 163, 222
Sermon, Roger, 320, 339
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Kinsey), 170
Shahn, Ben, 93
Shapiro, Jacob “Gurrah,” 54
Shapley, Harlow, 67
Shultz, Lillie, 300–301
Sims, Byrd, 147
Sloan, Alfred, 272–73
Smith, Al, 58
Smith, Gerald L. K., 160, 319
Smith, Lonnie E., 192
Smith, Merriman, 41
Smith v. Allwright (1944), 192, 220
Smith, Walter Bedell, 210, 256
Smith, W. Eugene, 342
Snyder, John, 312
southern Democrats
civil rights and, 72, 73, 100–102, 147–48, 149–50, 179–80
historical alignments, 72, 96
military desegregation and, 178, 179–80
protests at convention (1948) and, 147–48, 149–50
racism of, 72, 73, 97, 100–102, 147–48, 178, 179–80
Rowe-Clifford memo and, 96, 97, 101
segregation and, 72, 73, 101
Wakulla Springs, Florida and, 100
See also Dixiecrats
Soviet Union
atomic weapons/bombs use, 154, 154–55n
communism expansion and, 59–65, 102–5
Czechoslovakia control and, 102–3
“Long Telegram” (Kennan) and, 60
Marshall Plan and, 102, 103
postwar US relationship, 6, 13, 102–5
See also Cold War; Germany, Berlin; Stalin, Joseph
Sprague, J. Russell, 79, 80, 182
Stalin, Joseph
atomic weapons and, 35
Berlin and, 210
Marshall meeting and, 64
Moscow speech/Five-Year Plan, 35
open letter from Wallace/response, 121–22
Potsdam Conference and, 7
Stassen and, 82
See also Soviet Union; Vinson mission
Stassen, Harold
background/description, 51, 82, 113
Dewey campaign/Truman rebuttal speech and, 186, 218–19
Stassen, Harold presidential run (1948)
on communism, 112, 114, 115
Dewey debate/consequences, 114–16
polls and, 110
primaries and, 112, 113
Republican National Convention (1948) and, 134, 136
State of the Union (1948)
civil rights and, 99, 195
description/significance, 98–99
response, 99
States’ Rights Democratic Party. See Dixiecrats
Steelman, John, 60
Stennis, John C., 179–80
Stern Gang, 105, 288
Stevenson, Adlai, 332
Stimson, Henry, 14, 51
–52
Stokes, Thomas, 142
Stone, I. F., 24
Stoner, J. B., 160
Straus, Roger, Mr./Mrs., 321
Stripling, Robert, 198, 199
Strout, Richard, 124, 128, 226, 277, 282–83
Sunday Evening Hour, 229
T
Taber, John, Dewey and, 82–83
Taft-Hartley bill/Act, 73–74, 98, 205, 216, 238, 264, 290, 307, 346, 354
Taft, Robert
background/description, 16, 80, 231, 329, 350
emergency session and, 156, 157
Marshall Plan and, 66
presidential run (1948), 81, 110, 134, 137
Truman and, 16, 18, 66, 98, 99
“whistle stop” use and, 128–29
Taft, William H., 14, 134, 322
Talmadge, Eugene, 73, 219
