No Ordinary Time

  472 “Tell me darling . . .”: John Boettiger to AB, May 29, 1943, box 5, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.

  472 “Neither of us is giving . . .”: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 165.

  472 “among the higher ups . . .”: AB to John Boettiger, Sept. 18, 1943, box 5, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.

  472 “I realize how desperately lonely . . .”: ER to AB, Oct. 10, 1943, box 57, Halsted Papers, FDRL.

  473 “I just saw Pa . . .”: ER to AB, Nov. 11, 1943, box 57, Halsted Papers, FDRL.

  473 “Everything is very comfortable . . .”: FDR to ER, Nov. 18, 1943, box 12, Roosevelt Family Papers Donated by the Children, FDRL.

  473 “The sea voyage . . .”: Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It (1946), p. 133.

  473 “for things always . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 98.

  473 “He was thrilled . . .”: Michael F. Reilly, Reilly of the White House (1947), p. 170.

  473 “I’ve been amused . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 96.

  474 “In a queer way . . .”: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 156.

  474 clapping her hands: Lash, World of Love, pp. 1-2.

  474 “This will be very useful . . .”: Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny (1990), p. 478.

  474 “I’m sorry things only went . . .”: ER to FDR, Dec. 5, 1943, box 12, Roosevelt Family Papers Donated by the Children, FDRL.

  474 “Let us make it . . .”: Churchill, Closing the Ring, p. 300.

  474 “Large families . . .”: Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It, p. 16.

  474 “He started slowly . . .”: interview with Robert Hopkins.

  474 WC asked Pa Watson: Churchill, Closing the Ring, p. 301.

  475 “Seeing him . . .”: Reilly, Reilly, p. 179.

  475 “as if the tailor . . .”: Moran, Churchill, p. 146.

  475 “I am glad to see . . .”: Charles E. Bohlen, Witness to History, 1929-1969 (1973), p. 144.

  475 “He seems very confident . . .”: Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It, p. 176.

  475 “It was a thrilling experience . . .”: Ismay, Memoirs, p. 337.

  475 “clearly was the dominating . . .”: Bohlen, Witness, p. 142.

  475 “He looked the picture . . .”: Ismay, Memoirs, p. 338.

  475 doodling wolfheads: Bohlen, Witness, p. 151.

  475 “If we are here . . .”: Moran, Churchill, p. 147.

  476 “I thank the Lord . . .”: Stimson Diary, Dec. 5, 1943, Yale University.

  476 “man might destroy . . .”: Moran, Churchill, p. 151.

  476 to see FDR alone: ibid., p. 146.

  476 “I had done . . .” . . . “A vague smile . . .”: Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew (1946), pp. 83-84.

  476 “From that time on . . .”: ibid., pp. 84-85.

  477 “There were toasts . . .”: Henry H. Arnold, Global Mission (1949), p. 498.

  477 “I want to tell you . . .”: Foreign Relations of the United States: The Conferences at Cairo and Teheran, 1943 (1961), p. 469.

  477 American factories were supplying: Fourteenth Report on Lend-Lease for period ending December 31, 1943, pp. 30-33, FDRL.

  477 every week: ibid.

  478 “We have differing customs . . .”: Burns, Soldier of Freedom, p. 411.

  478 huddled around a map: ibid., pp. 412-13.

  478 “an important milestone . . .”: NYT, Dec. 7, 1943, p. 6.

  478 “I want George . . .”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 760.

  478 “Well, Ike . . .”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe (1948), p. 207.

  478 “Homeward bound . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 98.

  479 “He was in his traveling . . .”: Stimson Diary, Dec. 17, 1943, Yale University.

  479 “OM was very cool . . .”: AB to John Boettiger, Dec. 19, 1943, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.

  479 “Tonight . . .”: MD, Dec. 17, 1943.

  479 “a complete fiasco . . .” . . . “the things she had been through . . .”: AB to John Boettiger, Dec. 19, 1943, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.

  480 “I finally managed . . .”: ibid.

  480 “Ever since my talk . . .”: AB to John Boettiger, Dec. 27, 1943, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.

  480 “It is the first time . . .”: Henry H. Adams, Harry Hopkins (1977), p. 351.

  481 first Christmas at Hyde Park since 1932: NYT, Dec. 26, 1943, p. 5.

  481 “I am sure it will seem . . .”: MD, Dec. 20, 1943.

  481 “loved the old place . . .”: AB to John Boettiger, Dec. 27, 1943, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.

  481 “no women on ships . . .”: ibid.

  481 “How did the New Deal . . .”: text of speech, NYT, Dec. 29, 1943, p. 8.

  482 “The New Deal slogan . . .”: U.S. News, Jan. 7, 1944, pp. 26-27.

  482 “an honorable discharge”: NYT, Dec. 5, 1943, pp. 1, 32.

  482 “The war has finally . . .”: Raymond Clapper, Watching the World (1944), p. 131.

  483 “away in lavender”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 696.

  483 “the future . . .”: U.S. New, Jan. 14, 1943, p. 24.

  CHAPTER NINETEEN: “I Want to Sleep and Sleep”

  484 “If ever there was a time . . .”: text of speech, NYT, Jan. 12, 1944, p. 12.

  485 “ . . . the fatal and false . . .”: James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1970), p. 426.

  486 ER who listened: MD, Jan. 11, 1944.

  486 “It has been . . . relief not for the needy . . .”: NYT, Feb. 23, 1944, p. 14.

  486 “in the best . . .”; “hell broke . . .”: William D. Hassett, Off the Record with F.D.R. (1958), p. 235.

  486 “a calculated and deliberate . . .”: NYT, Feb. 24, 1944, p. 12.

  487 “practically every senator . . .”: Henry A. Wallace, The Price of Vision (1973), p. 302.

  487 “Alben must be . . .”: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 235.

  487 Barkley was tired: Burns, Soldier of Freedom, p. 426.

  487 “quite calm . . .”; “but I’m not sure . . .”: Joseph P. Lash, A World of Love (1984), pp. 112-13.

  487 call from Jimmy Byrnes: James F. Byrnes, Speaking Frankly (1947), pp. 211-12.

  487 “Still no word . . .”: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 237.

  487 The Treasury was able: Harold G. Vatter, The U.S. Economy in World War II (1985), pp. 104-5.

  488 “a revolution in American . . .”: David Brinkley, Washington Goes to War (1988), p. 218.

  488 “supposed he was lying . . .”: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 238.

  488 “the Big Week”: Martin Cardin, Flying Forts (1968), p. 444; interview with William Emerson.

  488 “you would be shot down . . .”: Michael Sherry, The Rise of American Air Power (1987), p. 157.

  488 “This was a turning point . . .”: Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. V, Closing the Ring (1951), p. 462.

  489 “With no preliminary . . .”: John R. Boettiger, Jr., A Love in Shadow (1978), p. 253.

  489 “Father could relax . . .”: interview with Elliott Roosevelt.

  489 “She could tell . . .”: interview with John Boettiger, Jr.

  489 “She walked in . . .”: Justine Polier, OH, FDRL.

  489 “but not until . . .”: Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin (1971), p. 699.

  489 “Louise would arrange . . .”: Bernard Asbell, Mother and Daughter (1988), p. 99.

  489 “it would be wonderful . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 699.

  490 “I was away last week . . .”: ER to MLH, Feb. 18, 1944, box 87, ER Papers, FDRL.

  490 “I know that you . . .”: ibid.

  490 “I hope you understand . . .”: Ann Rochon to ER, n.d., box 1731, ER Papers, FDRL.

  490 “young life in the White House . . .”: MD, March 4, 1944.

  490 “brought to all her contacts . . .”: TIR, p. 319.

  490 “like Topsy . . .”: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, pp. 175-76.

  490 “It was immaterial . . .”: ibid., p. 176.


  491 “It was an ideal . . .”: interview with John Boettiger, Jr.

  491 fled from the library: The Woman, May 1949, pp. 8, 9.

  491 “She is really in finer . . .”: John Boettiger to Jimmy Roosevelt, Aug. 15, 1944, box 26, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.

  491 “Anna’s day at the White House . . .”: Time, May 29, 1944, p. 18.

  491 “He would grin . . .”: Grace Tully, F.D.R., My Boss (1949), p. 274.

  492 “ . . . tired and worn”: NYT, March 26, 1944, p. 35.

  492 “President not looking so well . . .”: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 239.

  492 “I don’t think mother . . .”: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 177.

  492 “interested in physiology . . .”: ibid.

  492 “she still believed . . .”: interview with John Boettiger, Jr.

  492 “I think the constant tension . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 115.

  492 “The President . . .”: MD, April 6, 1944.

  493 “He is cheerful in spirit . . .”: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 240.

  493 “the blood was not pumping . . .”: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 177.

  493 comparing notes with Grace: Tully, F.D.R., p. 274.

  493 “I didn’t think . . .”: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 177.

  493 “I designed that one”: Jim Bishop, FDR’s Last Year (1974), p. 3.

  494 “It was a warm day . . .”: interview with Howard Bruenn.

  494 “I suspected something . . .”: ibid.

  494 “It was worse . . .”: ibid.

  494 examination revealed: Annals of Internal Medicine, April 1970, pp. 580-81; hereafter cited as Bruenn, “Clinical Notes.”

  495 “Thanks, Doc”: Bishop, Last Year, p. 6.

  495 “Not only were . . .”: NYT, March 29, 1944, p. 1.

  495 little model: NYT, March 31, 1944, p. 38.

  495 “McIntire was appalled . . .”: interview with Howard Bruenn.

  496 “I was only a lieutenant commander . . .”: ibid.

  496 “Digitalis was a miracle drug . . .”: ibid.

  496 Goldsmith suggests: Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, Dec. 1975, pp. 899-903.

  496 “He suspects the doctors . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 118.

  497 “When we got through . . .”: NYT, April 5, 1944, p. 1.

  497 Hobcaw: Bernard M. Baruch, Baruch: The Public Years (1960), pp. 335-37.

  497 “The Secret Service . . .”: A. Merriman Smith, Thank You, Mr. President (1946), p. 139.

  497 “I want to sleep and sleep . . .”: Bishop, Last Year, p. 25.

  498 Montgomery Ward strike: NYT, April 13, 1944, p. 1.

  498 Stimson argued: Stimson Diary, May 4, 1944, Yale University.

  498 Biddle disagreed: Francis Biddle, In Brief Authority (1962), pp. 315-16.

  498 Sewell Avery refused: NYT, April 27, 1944, pp. 1, 14; Aaron Levenstein, Labor Today and Tomorrow (1945), pp. 1, 2.

  498 “There is no warrant . . .”: “Comments on the Montgomery Ward Case,” May 11, 1944, box 3, OF 4451, FDRL.

  498 “It was the manner . . .”: ibid.

  498 “great howl”: Stimson Diary, May 4, 1944, Yale University.

  498 “Beloved of mine . . .”: John Boettiger to AB, April 10, 1944, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.

  499 “Anna has arranged . . .”: ER to FDR, April 21, 1944, box 16, Roosevelt Family Papers Donated by the Children, FDRL.

  499 “I came home . . .”: TIR, p. 328.

  499 “in better condition . . .”: NYT, April 13, 1944, p. 8.

  499 Winthrop Rutherfurd: obituary, Aiken Standard, March 24, 1944, p. 4; NYT, May 21, 1944, p. 17.

  499 Baruch vividly remembered: Bernard Asbell, The FDR Memoirs (1973), p. 412.

  500 acute abdominal pain: Bruenn, “Clinical Notes,” p. 548.

  500 “seemed in such good spirits . . .”: Smith, Thank You, pp. 140-41.

  500 “lest his recovery . . .”: ibid., p. 141.

  500 “You will come home . . .”: ER to FDR, April 29, 1944, box 16, Roosevelt Family Papers Donated by the Children, FDRL.

  501 “Nothing I could give . . .”: ER to AB, May 1, 1944, box 57, Halsted Papers, FDRL.

  501 “I had a really grand time . . .”: FDR to HH, May 18, 1944, HH Papers, FDRL.

  501 Stephen killed: NYT, Feb. 13, 1944, p. 1.

  501 “It is grand to get . . .”; “The main things . . .”: FDR to HH, May 18, 1944, HH Papers, FDRL.

  501 “We can all be glad . . .”: NYT, May 8, 1944, p. 18.

  502 “good news . . .”: ibid.

  502 “brown as a berry . . .”: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 241.

  502 “Anna was afraid . . .”: interview with Howard Bruenn.

  502 “You would find . . .”: Ickes to MLH, May 23, 1944, Harold Ickes Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

  502 “With people like Martha . . .”: interview with John Boettiger, Jr.

  502 “what she wanted . . .”: ibid.

  502 “I am always waiting . . .”: MD, April 18, 1944.

  503 “Anna is the only one . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 700.

  503 “Anna tried to be . . .”: interview with Howard Bruenn.

  503 “How can anyone . . .”: Margery Truiz to FDR, Feb. 16, 1944, with excerpts from newspaper article, OF 93, FDRL.

  503 “I know, of course . . .”: “Outraged” to ER, Feb. 28, 1944.

  503 “Women should be represented . . .”: NYT, March 31, 1944, p. 38.

  503 “She pushed him terrifically . . .”: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 176.

  504 “Mother can’t you see . . .”: Tully, F.D.R., p. 110.

  504 “She couldn’t see . . .”: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 177.

  504 “I pray I don’t . . .”: AB to John Boettiger, April 7, 1944, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.

  CHAPTER TWENTY: “Suspended in Space”

  505 “suspended in space . . .”: ER to FDR, May 2, 1944, box 16, Roosevelt Family Papers Donated by the Children, FDRL.

  505 “every movement . . .”: Grace Tully, F.D.R., My Boss (1949), p. 265.

  505 900 warships: Max Hastings, Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1984), p. 80.

  506 “when he is buried . . .”: Harry C. Butcher, My Three Years with Eisenhower (1946), p. 275.

  506 “The nearer H hour . . .”; “as the battlefields . . .”: Gordon Harrison, Cross-Channel Attack (1989), p. 274.

  506 order to “go”: ibid., p. 284.

  506 “there was a question . . .”: interview with William Emerson.

  506 “the dangers and disasters. .”: Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946 (1975), p. 311.

  506 “Our friendship . . .”: Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence (1984), vol. III, p. 162.

  506 “How I wish . . .”: ibid, p. 186.

  507 “I feel as though . . .”: ER to Doris Fleeson, May 15, 1944, ER Microfilm Collection, FDRL.

  507 “It is too bad . . .”: MD, Jan. 6, 1944.

  507 “Soon the invasion . . .”: ER to Esther Lape, June 3, 1944, Lape Papers, FDRL.

  507 “I only know . . .”: Joseph P. Lash, A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962 (1984), p. 124.

  507 “We all started . . .”: AH interview, Graff Papers, FDRL.

  507 Eisenhower met: Stephen E. Ambrose, The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1970) p. 415.

  507 “an agony . . .”: Hastings Ismay, The Memoirs of General Lord Ismay (1960), p. 357.

  507 “because he’d learned . . .”: ER interview, Graff Papers, FDRL.

  508 “the question . . .”: Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, p. 274.

  508 “Do you realize . . .”: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. VII, Road to Victory, 1941-1945 (1986) p. 794.

  508 “The first of the Axis . . .”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944, (1950), p. 147.

  508 “How magnif
icently . . .”: Churchill & Roosevelt Correspondence, vol. III, p. 163.

  508 “from a vague . . .”: Ernie Pyle, Brave Men (1944), p. 356.

  508 “I don’t know why . . .”: ibid, pp. 364-65.

  509 “To be nearly sixty . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 124.

  509 “He sat up in bed . . .”: ER interview, Graff Papers, FDRL.

  509 “Soldiers, sailors and airmen . . .”: Robert Meyer, Jr., The Stars and Stripes (1960), p. 234.

  509 HH thought about production problems: Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, (1948), p. 807.

  509 “ . . . the most exciting moment . . .”: Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day (1994), p. 494.

  509 “Outwardly they appeared . . .”: Winston M. Estes, Homefront (1976), p. 257.

  509 “The impulse to pray . . .”: Ambrose, D-Day, p. 495.

  510 “We have come . . .”: quoted in ibid, p. 494.

  510 “The President was happy . . .”: I. F. Stone, The War Years, 1939-1945 (1988], p. 236.

  510 “I have just sat in . . .”: letter from “The B.” to “Mom,” June 6, 1944, Reminiscences by Contemporaries, FDRL.

  510 “You just don’t land . . .”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Public Papers and Addresses, 1944, p. 159.

  510 “a far cry . . .”: Samuel I. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt (1952), p. 433.

  510 “our sons, pride . . .”: press release, June 6, 1944, attached to “The B.” to “Mom,” June 6, 1944, Reminiscences by Contemporaries, FDRL.

  510 “All emotion . . .”: MD, June 6, 1944.

  511 “Each hedgerow . . .”; “I cannot say enough . . .”: Harrison, Cross-Channel Attack, p. 284.

  511 “I cannot say . . .”: quoted in Annette Tapert, ed., Lines of Battle: Letters from American Servicemen, 1941-1945 (1987), pp. 160-61.

  511 “Nobody doubted now . . .”: Henry H. Arnold, quoted in “The War Reports of General of the Army George Marshall, General of the Army H. H. Arnold, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King.” N.Y.: J.B. Lippincott Co. (1947), p. 67.

  511 “As far as you could . . .”: Pyle, Brave Men, p. 358.

  511 “There were trucks . . .” . . . “They stood staring . . .”: ibid, pp. 367-69.

  512 “Much kidding . . .”: William D. Hassett, Off the Record with F.D.R. (1958), p. 252.

  512 “I’ve unpacked a little . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 118.

  512 “in the pink . . .”: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 254.