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200 economy at home: Donald Rogers, Since You Went Away (1973), pp. 13–28.

  200 “an orgy of spending . . .”: NYT, Dec. 25, 1940, p. 1.

  200 “Here life is not . . .”: WP, Dec. 25, 1940, p. 1.

  201 “Here is something . . .”: MD, Jan. 1 and 2, 1941.

  201 “Eleanor was forever . . .”: interview with Trude Lash.

  201 “he had an idea . . .”: Samuel I. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt (1952), p. 263.

  201 ER and guests in FDR’s box: NYT, Jan. 7, 1941, p. 5.

  201 Text of speech: NYT, Jan. 7, 1941, p. 4.

  202 “It looked to me . . .”: MD, Jan. 6, 1941.

  202 “presents a new concept . . .”: NYT, Jan. 9, 1941, p. 19.

  202 “the Roosevelts apparently . . .”: NYT, Jan. 11, 1941, p. 3.

  202 “intensifying and exhilarating . . .”: SEP, Sept. 16, 1939, pp. 96, 98.

  202 reporters noted: NYT, Jan. 19, 1941, sect. VI, p. 3.

  203 “One of the grand things . . .”: WP, Jan. 19, 1941, p. 2.

  203 “Serious but not . . .”; “ . . . after nearly . . .”: NYT, Jan. 19, 1941, sect. VI, p. 3.

  203 “part of his nature . . .”: Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin (1971), p. 344.

  203 “The President talked . . .”: Perkins interview, Graff Papers, FDRL.

  203 “Frankfurter said . . .”: Stimson Diary, Jan. 4, 1941, Yale University.

  204 “He seems to want . . .”: David E. Lilienthal, The Journal of David E. Lilienthal, vol. 1 (1964), p. 169.

  204 “Each imagines . . .”: Lash Diary, March 20, 1941, Lash Papers, FDRL.

  204 “He had more serenity . . .”: quoted in Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919–1931 (1956), p. 407.

  204 “Bright-eyed . . .”: WP, Jan. 21, 1941, p. 1.

  204 Pegler called her: Tamara Hareven, Eleanor Roosevelt: An American Conscience (1968), pp. 273–74.

  204 “and tend to her . . .”: J. William T. Youngs, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Private Life (1985), p. 198.

  204 “Instead of tearing . . .”: Hareven, Eleanor Roosevelt, p. 271.

  205 “We don’t want . . .”; “If I could be worried . . .”: NYT, Oct. 26, 1940, p. 9.

  205 “She is the President’s . . .”: U.S. News, Dec. 20, 1940, pp. 9–10.

  205 “The nearer I draw . . .”: MD, Jan. 10, 1941.

  205 “It was wonderful . . .”: MD, Jan. 12, 1941.

  205 “I always have been . . .”: WP, Jan. 21, 1941, p. 3.

  205 ER raised troubling question: Lash Diary, Jan. 16, 1941, Lash Papers, FDRL.

  206 “I think we are going . . .”: NYT, Jan. 26, 1941, p. 1.

  206 On Palmer: Lash Diary, Jan. 16, 1941, Lash Papers, FDRL; Time, Feb. 3, 1941, p. 59; PM, Jan. 19, 1941, p. 9; March 26, 1941, p. 9.

  206 “arose from . . .”: PM, Jan. 19, 1941, p. 9.

  206 “in the long run . . .”: Time, Feb. 3, 1941, p. 59.

  206 Palmer had been under: PM, Jan. 19, 1941, p. 9; March 26, 1941, p. 9.

  206 “Would he be sensitive . . .”: Lash Diary, Jan. 16, 1941, Lash Papers, FDRL.

  206 “My mother-in-law . . .”: Eleanor Roosevelt, Tomorrow Is Now (1963), pp. 64–65.

  207 SDR invited: ibid.

  207 Elizabeth Read and Esther Lape: Joseph P. Lash, Love, Eleanor (1982), pp. 78–82; Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, vol. 1, 1884–1933 (1992), pp. 288–301.

  207 Nancy Cook and Marion Dickerman: Lash, Love, Eleanor, pp. 82–85.

  207 “Boston marriage”: ibid., p. 82.

  208 “If I had to go out . . .”: Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok, Ladies of Courage (1954), p. 262.

  208 “She loved it . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 307.

  208 “squaws” and “she-men”: Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, vol. I, p. 302.

  208 “My generation . . .”: Rita Halle Kleeman, Gracious Lady: The Life of Sara Delano Roosevelt (1935), p. 291.

  208 “My mother-in-law . . .”: Geoffrey C. Ward, A First-Class Temperament (1989), p. 564.

  209 “My Missus and . . .”: quoted in Kenneth S. Davis, Invincible Summer (1974), p. 35.

  209 “The peace of it . . .”: Ward, Temperament, p. 740.

  209 “Can you tell me why . . .”: ibid.

  209 Gallup poll: U.S. News, Jan. 31, 1941, p. 17.

  209 Nineteen members of family: WP, Jan. 20, 1941, p. 2.

  210 “There are men . . .”: WP, Jan. 21, 1941, p. 2.

  210 “A nation, like a person . . .”: ibid., p. 3.

  210 “the government . . .”: Richard Leighton and Robert Coakley, Global Logistics and Strategy, 1940–1943 (1955), p. 77.

  210 “to carry on . . .”: Senator Taft quoted in Charles A. Beard, President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941 (1948), p. 67.

  210 “The lend-lease . . .”: David Lawrence, Diary of a Washington Correspondent (1942), p. 92.

  210 On Kennedy: Michael Beschloss, Kennedy and Roosevelt (1980), pp. 238–41.

  211 “Somehow or other . . .”: John Boettiger to Joseph P. Kennedy, Jan. 31, 1941, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.

  211 “if my statements . . .”: Kennedy to Boettiger, Feb. 10, 1941, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.

  211 “It is, I think . . .”: FDR to Boettiger, Feb. 1941, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.

  212 “another step away . . .”: Ketchum, Borrowed Years, p. 578.

  212 “sick and shrunken . . .”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 234.

  212 her shock: interview transcript from HH documentary, FDRL.

  212 “Mr. Churchill . . .”: ibid.

  212 “And from this hour . . .”: Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. III, The Grand Alliance (1950), p. 21.

  212 “I suppose you wish . . .”: Lord Moran, Churchill—the Struggle for Survival, 1940–1965 (1966), p. 6.

  213 HH asked WC: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, pp. 253–55.

  213 “In the last war . . .”: Winston S. Churchill, Great War Speeches (1957), pp. 93–105.

  213 “the madmen . . .”: NYT, Feb. 12, 1941, pp. 1, 6.

  214 “He was elected . . .”: ibid., p. 1.

  214 “thankful beyond words”: MD, Feb. 11, 1941.

  214 “the most unsordid act . . .”: NYT, March 13, 1941, p. 1.

  214 “Thank God! . . .”: Molly Panter-Downes, London War Notes, 1939–1945 (1971), p. 137.

  214 “one of the most massive . . .”: interview transcript from HH documentary, FDRL.

  214 “The blind side . . .”: Harold L. Ickes, The Secret Diaries of Harold L. Ickes, vol. III, The Lowering Clouds, 1939–1941 (1954), p. 480.

  214 “I am just worried . . .”: Blum, Morgenthau Diaries, vol. II, p. 232.

  214 “The more I think . . .”: Stimson Diary, March 5, 1941, Yale University.

  215 “Upon his return . . .”: SEP, April 26, 1941, p. 73.

  215 “It tore Eleanor’s . . .”: Martha Gellhorn interview, OH, FDRL.

  215 “Yes, the decisions . . .”: James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1970), p. 49.

  215 “the Führer finally . . .”: Goebbels, Goebbels Diaries, 1939–1941, p. 240.

  CHAPTER NINE: “Business As Usual”

  216 “This house is . . .”: Victoria Henrietta Nesbitt, White House Diary (1948), p. 261.

  216 Fort Bragg: Fortune, May 1941, p. 162.

  217 labor force of 28,500: NYT, Feb. 16, 1941, p. 31.

  217 “extraordinarily interesting . . .”: MD, March 31, 1941.

  217 at any number of spots: Fortune, May 1941, pp. 58, 62.

  217 “We’re building . . .”; “the worst malaria . . .”: U.S. News, Aug. 29, 1941, p. 28.

  217 most rudimentary facilities: Ulysses G. Lee, The Employment of Negro Troops (1966), p. 43.

  217 “If our plans . . .”: U.S. News, Aug. 29, 1941, p. 28.

  218 “But to the new . . .”: Lee Kennett, GI (1987), p. 42.

  218 “curved streets . . .”: ibid., p. 43.

  218 “they were the
best run . . .”: Geoffrey Perrett, There’s a War to Be Won (1991), p. 36.

  218 “sitting on the top . . .”: NYT, March 23, 1941, sect. IV, p. 7.

  218 “that wave . . .”: Edwin Martin to FDR, March 21, 1942, OF 93, FDRL.

  218 “Fala stood . . .”: MD, March 31, 1941.

  218 “You do have . . .”: NYT, April 2, 1941, p. 14.

  219 LH moved to Washington: Doris Faber, The Life of Lorena Hickock (1980), pp. 278–79.

  219 “I never knew . . .”: LH unpublished manuscript, box 1, LH Papers, FDRL.

  219 “But that was not . . .”: ibid.

  220 “You’d better watch out . . .”: Faber, Lorena Hickok, p. 94.

  220 “There must have been . . .”: ibid., p. 16.

  220 “I am not unhappy . . .”: Joseph P. Lash, Love, Eleanor (1982), pp. 254–55.

  221 “Every woman wants . . .”: Joseph P. Lash, A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943–1962 (1984), p. 116.

  221 “ . . . I want to put . . .”: ER to LH, March 7, 1933, box 1, LH Papers, FDRL.

  221 “I felt a little . . .”: ER to LH, March 5, 1933, box 1, LH Papers, FDRL.

  221 “Oh! how good . . .”: ER to LH, March 6, 1933, box 1, LH Papers, FDRL.

  221 “The nicest time . . .”: ER to LH, March 11, 1933, box 1, LH Papers, FDRL.

  221 “Funny how even . . .”: LH to ER, Dec. 5, 1933, box 1, LH Papers, FDRL.

  221 “While they seem . . .”: interview with William Emerson.

  221 “Eleanor had so many . . .”: interview with Trude Lash.

  222 women routinely used: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, ch. 14 in Nancy F. Cott and Elizabeth H. Pleck, A Heritage of Her Own (1979).

  222 “You taught me more . . .”: Lash, Love, Eleanor, p. 211.

  222 “A reporter should never . . .”: ibid., p. 133.

  223 “Unwittingly . . .”: interview with Eleanor Seagraves.

  223 “No question that Hick . . .”: conversation with Anna Seagraves, Eleanor Seagraves’ daughter.

  223 “I should work . . .”: Lash, Love, Eleanor, p. 161.

  223 “ . . . you will be disappointed . . .”: ibid., p. 208.

  223 “I’d rather go alone . . .”: ibid., p. 181.

  223 “cry from the heart . . .”: Faber, Lorena Hickok, p. 180.

  223 “I went to sleep . . .”: ibid., p. 156.

  223 “I know you have . . .”: Lash, Love, Eleanor, p. 223.

  223 “You think some . . .”: ibid., p. 240.

  223 “I could shake you . . .”: ibid., p. 229.

  224 “shouted and stalked . . .”: Faber, Lorena Hickok, p. 177.

  224 “I hope you are having . . .”: ibid., p. 174.

  224 “Of course you should have . . .”: Lash, Love, Eleanor, p. 218.

  224 “ . . . if I didn’t love you . . .”: Faber, Lorena Hickok, p. 266.

  224 “Of course dear . . .”: Lash, Love, Eleanor, p. 254.

  224 “I’d never have believed . . .”: ibid., pp. 277–78.

  224 “You are wrong about Louis . . .”: ibid., p. 278.

  225 Accepting ER’s invitation: LH unpublished manuscript, box 1, LH Papers, FDRL.

  225 “A more discouraging . . .”: U.S. News, April 11, 1941, p. 20.

  225 strike statistics: Rosa Swafford, Wartime Record of Strikes and Lockouts, 1940–1945 (1946), p. vii.

  225 “Some friends of labor . . .”: Raymond Clapper, Watching the World (1944), p. 218.

  225 War Department’s use of statistics: Byron Fairchild and Jonathan Grossman, The Army and Industrial Mobilization (1959), p. 60.

  226 “All these men . . .”: Lash Diary, Feb. 16, 1941, Lash Papers, FDRL.

  226 “I cannot escape . . .”: MD, Dec. 9, 1940.

  226 River Rouge plant: Life, Aug. 19, 1940, pp. 37–39.

  226 “the last unconquered citadel . . .”: Newsweek, April 14, 1941, p. 35.

  227 Ford contracts: WP, Nov. 7, 1940, p. 1; NYT, Nov. 30, 1940, p. 9.

  227 “union enemy . . .”: Fairchild and Grossman, Mobilization, p. 39.

  227 “Ford is the country’s . . .”: Nation, Dec. 14, 1940, p. 595.

  227 “a bad thing . . .”: NYT, Dec. 29, 1940, p. 12.

  227 “to let bygone issues . . .”: Stimson Diary, Jan. 1, 1941, Yale University.

  227 War Department pressed to reject bid: NYT, Feb. 6, 1941, p. 11.

  227 “Best news . . .”: Nation, Feb. 8, 1941, p. 147.

  227 Supreme Court decision: Business Week, Feb. 14, 1941, p. 14.

  227 Description of strike: Detroit News, April 2, 1941, p. 1; NYT, April 3, 1941, pp. 1, 18.

  228 “more Negroes . . .”: Mary Bethune to ER, April 4, 1941, ER Microfilm Collection, FDRL.

  228 “It will be a bitter . . .”: PC, April 12, 1941, p. 4.

  228 “watching and waiting . . .”: NYT, April 4, 1941, p. 14.

  228 “With the help . . .”; “I am convinced . . .”: Detroit News, April 13, 1941, p. 1.

  229 White journeyed: Detroit News, April 9, 1941, p. 1.

  229 “dimmed the power . . .”: Peter Collier and Robert Horowitz, The Fords (1987), p. 170.

  229 Rolls-Royce: ibid., p. 178.

  229 Edsel humiliated by turnabout: Norman Beasley, Knudsen (1947), p. 261.

  229 “Mr. Ford gave . . .”: Robert Lacey, Ford (1986), p. 376.

  229 votes counted: Charles Sorenson and William Samuelson, My Forty Years with Ford (1956), p. 268.

  229 “It was a measure . . .”: Lacey, Ford, p. 377.

  230 “It was perhaps . . .”: Sorenson and Samuelson, Forty Years, p. 260.

  230 “treason” penalties: NYT, April 2, 1941, p. 1.

  230 “perfect nonsense . . .”: ibid., p. 14; also BEA, April 12, 1941, p. 3.

  230 ER’s press conference: NYT, April 8, 1941, p. 19.

  230 “The infamous hand . . .”: Time, June 16, 1941, p. 15.

  231 “Franklin Roosevelt . . .”: ibid.

  231 with help of federal troops: NYT, June 10, 1941, p. 10.

  231 “The armed forces . . .”: Time, June 16, 1941, p. 15.

  231 “Washington rarely . . .”: David Lawrence, Diary of a Washington Correspondent (1942), p. 144.

  231 “What has not yet . . .”: ibid., p. 141.

  231 “It took Hitler . . .”: Fortune, July 1941, p. 68.

  231 “gobbling an intolerable share . . .”: Business Week, April 26, 1941, p. 19.

  232 Packard, Willys, Chevrolet: Business Week, Jan. 18, 1941, p. 56.

  232 “You can’t have 500 . . .”: Fortune, July 1941, p. 68.

  232 “We cannot fight a war . . .”: Nation, May 3, 1941, p. 519.

  232 “The entire industry . . .”: Beasley, Knudsen, p. 313.

  232 “The problem is to turn . . .”: Nation, May 3, 1941, p. 519.

  232 “I am afraid . . .”: Stimson Diary, May 29, 1941, Yale University.

  232 “to begin thinking . . .”: NYT, Feb. 18, 1941, p. 1.

  232 “cheerfully forego . . .”: [James Rowe] to FDR, July 22, 1941, Henderson Papers, FDRL.

  233 “The President has . . .”: Eric Larrabee, Commander in Chief (1987), p. 63.

  233 Yugoslavia: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War (1989), p. 170.

  233 British ships being sunk: Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 (1981), p. 260.

  233 “to forcibly stop . . .”: Stimson Diary, Dec. 19, 1941, Yale University.

  233 waiting for him to cross: James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1970), p. 91.

  234 41 percent, 50 percent: Dallek, Roosevelt and Foreign Policy, p. 261.

  234 “one could not . . .”: U.S. News, May 2, 1941, p. 22.

  234 “which is the cutest . . .”: FDR, Jr., to AB, April 2, 1941, box 68, Halsted Papers, FDRL.

  234 “the U.S.A . . . .”: Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, 1939–1941 (1983), p. 336.

  234 “He reassured me . . .”: Stimson Diary, April 22, 1941, Yale University
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  234 “I am worried . . .”: Stimson Diary, May 23, 1941, Yale University.

  234 “Knudsen simply is . . .”: Harold L. Ickes, The Secret Diaries of Harold L. Ickes, vol. III, The Lowering Clouds, 1939–1941 (1954), p. 509.

  235 “He still has the country . . .”: ibid., p. 511.

  235 “I turn to Missy . . .”: ibid., pp. 487–88.

  235 “FDR looked as bad . . .”: Time, May 19, 1941, p. 16.

  235 “My heart sank . . .”: MD, April 25, 1941.

  236 “What he’s suffering . . .”: Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948), p. 293.

  236 “waiting to be pushed . . .”: John Morton Blum, From the Morgenthau Diaries, vol. II (1965), p. 254.

  236 “a compact with . . .”: Larrabee, Commander in Chief, p. 42.

  236 May percentages: George Gallup, The Gallup Polls: Public Opinion, 1935–1971, vol. I, 1937–1948 (1972), pp. 278–80.

  236 “Missy was . . .”: interview with Eliot Janeway.

  236 “Since defense is now . . .”: Lash Diary, April 20, 1941, Lash Papers, FDRL.

  237 “probably the most crucial . . .”: NYT, May 12, 1941, p. 15.

  237 “There is no one . . .”: MD, May 11, 1941.

  237 “Isn’t she amazing?”: Bernard Asbell, Mother and Daughter (1988), p. 132.

  237 “on the way . . .”: ibid.

  237 everything not newly planted: MD, May 10, 1941.

  237 “very tired . . .”: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 131.

  237 “The situation with Harry . . .”: ibid.

  237 “Franklin is much better . . .”: ER to Esther Lape, May 23, 1941, ER Microfilm Collection, FDRL.

  238 Preparation of speech: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, pp. 279–80.

  238 “If I may say so . . .”: Samuel I. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt (1952), p. 279.

  238 “There’s only a small . . .”: ibid., p. 284.

  238 “For almost an hour . . .”: NYT, June 2, 1941, p. 1.

  238 Text of speech: NYT, May 28, 1941, p. 2.

  239 “The atmosphere . . .”: MD, May 27, 1941.

  239 “like an oncoming wave . . .”: ibid.

  239 ER asked HH to join FDR: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 298.

  240 “would have been difficult . . .”: Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, p. 288.

  240 “They’re 95 percent favorable . . .”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 298.

  240 Stimson was pleased: Stimson Diary, May 27, 1941, Yale University.

  240 “We listened to father’s . . .”: AB to ER, May 29, 1941, box 59, Halsted Papers, FDRL.