No Ordinary Time

  585 Eden later acknowledged: Anthony Eden, The Memoirs of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon: The Reckoning (1965), p. 594.

  585 “If Stalin was determined . . .”: Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, p. 389.

  586 first time FDR wheeled down aisle: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.

  586 “I hope you will pardon me . . .”: Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, p. 527.

  586 “It was the first . . .”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.

  587 “accidentally . . .”: Hugh Gregory Gallagher, FDR’s Splendid Deception (1985), pp. 94, 96.

  587 Roosevelt delivered: MD, March 1, 1945.

  587 “First of all . . .”: Rosenman, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 536.

  587 “one of his major mistakes . . .”: ibid., p. 537.

  587 looked “really well”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.

  588 “He looked much older . . .” . . .” . . . more strength in him . . .”: J. W. Pickergill and D. F. Foster, eds., The Mackenzie King Record, vol. II, 1944-1945 (1968), p. 325.

  588 “seemed a little embarrassed”: ibid., p. 329.

  588 “I saw the President . . .”: Leon Henderson diary, March 13, 1945, Henderson Papers, FDRL.

  588 “profoundly depressed . . .”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 880.

  588 “The other meetings . . .”: John Boettiger to AB, Feb. 15, 1945, box 6, Boettiger Papers, FDRL.

  589 “But for weeks now . . .”: Life, March 5, 1945, p. 96.

  589 “Anna has . . .”: quoted in ibid., p. 100.

  589 “For purposes of public consumption . . .”: ibid., p. 108.

  589 “He seemed to feel . . .”: Smith conference notes, March 12, 1945, Harold Smith Papers, FDRL.

  589 “Don’t tell anyone . . .”: Omar Bradley and Clay Blair, A General’s Life (1983), pp. 521-22.

  589 more than 6,000 . . .: Robert Meyer, Jr. The Stars and Stripes: Story of World War II (1960), pp. 376-78.

  590 Only two hundred: Samuel Elliot Morison, The Two-Ocean War (1963), p. 524.

  590 “practically every physicist of standing . . .”: Stimson Diary, March 15, 1945, Yale University.

  590 “with subsequent notice . . .”: Peter Wyden, Day One: Before Hiroshima and After (1984), p. 126.

  590 Stimson argued: Stimson Diary, March 15, 1945, Yale University.

  591 “Do you think so?”: Smith conference notes, March 12, 1945, Harold Smith Papers, FDRL.

  591 “something about his face . . .”: Elizabeth Shoumatoff, FDR’s Unfinished Portrait (1990), p. 98.

  591 Hick once observed: LH unpublished manuscript, box 1, LH Papers, FDRL.

  591 “he was like a little boy . . .”: Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt quoted in ibid.

  591 “Never was there anything . . .”: AH on Lucy.

  591 “I doubt that father felt . . .”: James Roosevelt, My Parents (1976), p. 103.

  591 “strictly a family affair . . .”: Pickergill and Foster, eds., Mackenzie King Record, p. 334.

  592 “because I felt the pressure . . .”: AB draft letter to the editor concerning column “FDR Romance,” n.d., box 84, Halsted Papers, FDRL.

  592 “wonderful person . . .”: AB to Margaret Suckley, Oct. 28, 1948, box 74, Halsted Papers, FDRL.

  592 “I was grateful to her . . .”: AB draft letter to the editor concerning column “FDR Romance,” n.d., box 84, Halsted Papers, FDRL.

  592 “the complete contrast . . .”: Hassett, Off the Record, pp. 323-24.

  592 “Thus another milestone . . .”: ibid.

  592 “This world of young people . . .”: MD, March 21, 1945.

  592 “like a boy on vacation . . .”: Jim Bishop, FDR’s Last Year (1974), p. 485.

  593 “the head going . . .”: quoted in ibid., p. 520.

  593 LH quit her job: Doris Faber, The Life of Lorena Hickok (1980), p. 300.

  593 “The goodbyes . . .”: ibid., pp. 300-301.

  593 LH had pretended: LH unpublished manuscript, box 1, LH Papers, FDRL.

  594 “the office would be packed . . .”: ibid.

  594 “Later I came to realize . . .”: LH to Tommy, July 23, 1949, LH Papers, FDRL.

  594 “Soon after the inaugural ceremonies . . .”: TIR, p. 78.

  CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: “Everybody Is Crying”

  595 “Hope he responds . . .”: William D. Hassett, Off the Record with F.D.R. (1958), p. 326.

  595 “Everything is just . . .”: Joseph P. Lash, A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962 (1984), p. 177.

  595 He wanted her to travel: ibid., p. 174; J. W. Pickergill and D. F. Foster, eds., Mackenzie King Record, vol. II, 1944-1945 (1968), p. 328.

  596 “is going to get . . .”: quoted in Samuel I. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt (1952), p. 546.

  596 “I have long wanted . . .”; “The war in Europe . . .”: Collier’s, Sept. 21, 1946, p. 103.

  596 “suddenly realized . . .”: TIR, p. 343.

  597 “to enjoy life . . .” . . . “No, I like . . .”: MD, April 20, 1945.

  597 “the most beautiful . . .” . . .“That sense . . .”: ibid.,

  597 “No, it looks dead . . .”: ibid.

  597 “He never liked . . .”: ibid.

  597 “Does that sound . . .”: Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin (1971), p. 719.

  597 “I cannot conceal . . .”: Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence (1984), vol. III, pp. 595-96.

  597 “Our friendship . . .”: ibid., p. 574.

  598 “had failed to erase . . .”: Grace Tully, F.D.R., My Boss (1949), p. 356.

  598 “Did you get any rest . . .”: ibid.

  598 “usual leisure time . . .”: ibid., p. 358.

  598 “He was very amusing . . .”: ER interview, Graff Papers, FDRL.

  598 “The President was the worst . . .”: Bernard Asbell, When F.D.R. Died (1961), p. 14.

  598 “pretty simple, despite . . .”: Michael F. Reilly, Reilly of the White House (1947), pp. 226–27.

  598 “Warm Springs had saved . . .”; “it wasn’t just a matter . . .”: ibid.

  599 “The days flowed . . .”: Margaret Suckley, OH, FDRL.

  599 “He was in fine form . . .”: ibid.

  599 “It was a beautiful . . .”: A. Merriman Smith, Thank You, Mr. President (1946), p. 184.

  599 “That is not even subtle”: ibid., p. 185.

  599 “As a matter of fact . . .”: Asbell, When F.D.R. Died, p. 28.

  599 “I forgot to tell you . . .”; “Much love . . .”: Lash, World of Love, pp. 181-82.

  600 “Nothing in sight . . .”; “Nobody loves us . . .”: Shoumatoff, FDR’s Unfinished Portrait (1990), p. 100.

  600 “full of jokes . . .”: ibid.

  600 “profile as beautiful . . .”: ibid., pp. 102-3.

  600 “happy kids enjoying . . .”: Lillian Rogers Parks, The Roosevelts: A Family in Turmoil (1981), p. 262.

  600 “As I reined in . . .”: A. Merriman Smith, Thank You, p. 186.

  601 “beautiful, slightly flushed face . . .”: Shoumatoff, FDR’s Portrait, p. 108.

  601 “I remember so clearly . . .”: Margaret Suckley, OH, FDRL.

  601 “a good speech”: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 333.

  601 “The only limit . . .”: James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1970), p. 597.

  601 “I was terribly shocked . . .”: John Morton Blum, From the Morgenthau Diaries, vol. III (1967), p. 416.

  601 “He was full of this . . .”: AH interview, Graff Papers, FDRL.

  601 “an encompassing tension . . .”: Shoumatoff, FDR’s Portrait, p. 114.

  601 “The sky was clear . . .”: Margaret Suckley, OH, FDRL.

  602 “exceptionally good color”: Shoumatoff, FDR’s Portrait, p. 115.

  602 “surprisingly well . . .”: Margaret Suckley, OH, FDRL.

  602 “ . . . through with your laundry . . .”: Parks, Family in Turmoil, p. 263.

  602 “A typical State Department letter . . .”: Asbell, When F.D.R. Die
d, p. 33.

  602 “ . . . there is where I make a law”: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 334.

  602 “The last I remember . . .”: Asbell, When F.D.R. Died, p. 36.

  602 “We’ve got . . .”; “he raised his right hand . . .”: Shoumatoff, FDR’s Portrait, p. 117.

  602 “He looked at me . . .”: Margaret Suckley, OH, FDRL.

  602 “It was a bolt . . .”: Navy Medicine, March-April 1990, p. 13.

  602 “The confusion . . .” . . .“We must pack up and go . . .”: Shoumatoff, FDR’s Portrait, pp. 118-19.

  602 “which wasn’t much”: Navy Medicine, March-April 1990, p. 13.

  603 tortured breathing: Tully, F.D.R., p. 362.

  603 “All you could hear . . .”: Asbell, When F.D.R. Died, p. 45.

  603 “His eyes were closed . . .”: Hassett, Off the Record, p. 335.

  603 “We put a shot . . .”: Navy Medicine, March-April 1990, p. 13.

  603 “not alarmed”: TIR, p. 343.

  603 “unusually smart”: Asbell, When F.D.R. Died, p. 50.

  603 “a quick start”: ibid., p. 51.

  603 “very much upset . . .”: TIR, p. 344.

  603 “Now I’m called back . . .”: Asbell, When F.D.R. Died, p. 51.

  603 “I got into the car . . .”: TIR, p. 344.

  604 “I hadn’t been there . . .”: AH interview, Bernard Asbell.

  604 “He did his job . . .”: NYT, April 13, 1945, p. 3.

  604 presence of mind to call: Newsweek, April 23, 1945, p. 40.

  604 “Harry, the President is dead . . .”: David McCullough, Truman (1992), p. 342.

  604 “Is there anything . . .”: ibid.

  604 ER told Truman she was planning: ibid.

  604 “It was a very somber group . . .”: Stimson Diary, April 12, 1945, Yale University.

  605 “A trooper to the last”: Bess Furman, Washington By-Line (1949), p. 314.

  605 “strode with her usual . . .”: Time, April 23, 1945, p. 18.

  605 “You and I have . . .”: Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948), p. 880.

  605 “Oh, we all know . . .”: ibid., pp. 880-81.

  605 “I felt as if . . .”: Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. VI, Triumph and Tragedy (1953), p. 412.

  605 “deeply distressed”: Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946 (1975), p. 440.

  605 “and feeling as . . .”: Roy Hooper, Americans Remember the Home Front (1992, abridged ed.), p. 228.

  606 “That first flash . . .”: I. F. Stone, The War Years, 1939-1945 (1988), p. 273.

  606 “Everybody left . . .”: Hooper, Americans Remember, p. 229.

  606 “God, there were . . .”: ibid., p. 227.

  606 “I am too shocked . . .”: Asbell, When F.D.R. Died, p. 117.

  606 “The President’s death . . .”: ibid., p. 117.

  606 “it is tragic . . .”: BEA, April 14, 1945, p. 4.

  606 “Men will thank God . . .”: NYT, April 13, 1945, p. 18.

  606 WC said like opening champagne: John Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect (1950), p. 18.

  606 “no conception of the office . . .”: Richard E. Neustadt, Presidential Power and the Modern Presidency (1990), p. 136.

  606 “Wouldn’t you be . . .”: Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, p. 49.

  607 “Under Roosevelt . . .”: William Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (1963), p. 327.

  607 “He was one of the few . . .”: Isaiah Berlin, Personal Impressions (1981), p. 26.

  608 contributed nearly: compiled from charts in R. Elberton Smith, The Army and Economic Mobilization (1959), pp. 9-27; also Geoffrey Perrett, Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph (1973), p. 399.

  608 “There is little doubt . . .”: Smith, The Army and Economic Mobilization, p. 706.

  608 “The figures are all . . .”: Bruce Catton, The War Lords of Washington (1969), p. 306.

  608 “I am like a cat . . .”: James MacGregor Burns, Leadership (1978), p. 281.

  609 Never once: Stimson Diary, April 14, 1945, Yale University.

  609 action over the protest: Eric Larrabee, Commander in Chief (1987), p. 15.

  609 “the arsenal . . .”: interview with Joe Rauh.

  610 “None of these proposals . . .”: David S. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 (1984), p.’ 335.

  610 “More than any . . .”: Larrabee, Commander in Chief, p. 644

  611 calm and composed; Tully recounted her schedule: Tully, F.D.R., p. 366.

  611 Laura began to speak: Bernard Asbell, Mother and Daughter (1988), p. 186.

  611 “It was a malicious thing . . .”: interview with Eleanor Wotkyns.

  611 “Eleanor would have . . .”: Jim Bishop, FDR’s Last Year (1974), p. 635.

  611 alone with her husband; eyes dry: Tully, F.D.R., p. 366.

  611 Had Franklin seen Lucy: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 186.

  611 “At a time like that . . .”: Asbell, When F.D.R. Died, p. 155.

  612 valet tenderly parted the hair: Bishop, Last Year, p. 621.

  612 “Oh, he was handsome . . .”: Asbell, When F.D.R. Died, p. 130.

  612 “They came from the fields . . .”: BEA, April 15, 1945, p. 5.

  612 “Men stood with their arms . . .”: A. Merriman Smith, Thank You, pp. 193-94.

  612 “I lay in my berth . . .”: TIR, p. 345.

  612 “Did Franklin ever . . .”: Asbell, When F.D.R. Died, p. 153.

  613 “my dear wife will . . .”: Tully, F.D.R., p. 367.

  613 Truman later wrote: McCullough, Truman, p. 357.

  613 “The streets were lined . . .”: Katherine Marshall, Together (1946), p. 244.

  613 White House in state of confusion: Victoria Henrietta Nesbitt, White House Diary (1948), p. 309.

  613 “she would walk . . .”: LH interview, Graff Papers, FDRL.

  613 “Can you dispense . . .” . . .“Mrs. Roosevelt stood . . .”: J. B. West, Upstairs at the White House (1973), p. 56.

  614 “as stern as it could get . . .”: AB notes attached to letter to JL, Jan. 28, 1972, box 36, Halsted Papers, FDRL.

  614 “Mother was so upset . . .”: ibid.

  614 “Mother was angry with Anna . . .”: Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 186.

  614 “He was her husband . . .”: interview with Curtis Roosevelt.

  614 “It was the final roll call . . .”: Furman, Washington By-Line, p. 313.

  614 “stood almost fainting . . .”: Time, April 23, 1945. p. 19.

  614 “After everyone left . . .”: interview with Milton Lipson.

  615 “I’ll never forget . . .”: John R. Boettiger, Jr., A Love in Shadow (1978), p. 261.

  615 “The funeral was . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 184.

  615 watching the workmen: Time, April 23, 1945, p. 20.

  615 “He wanted me to plant . . .”: BEA, April 14, 1945, p. 7.

  CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: “A New Country Is Being Born”

  616 “She had all . . .”: Victoria Henrietta Nesbitt, White House Diary (1948), p. 311.

  616 “My husband . . .”: MD, April 18, 1945.

  616 “a bit keyed up . . .”: Joseph P. Lash, A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962 (1984), p. 188.

  616 eyes were tired: Newsweek, April 30, 1945, p. 24.

  616 “In the years . . .”: MD, April 16, 1945.

  617 “Mrs. Roosevelt . . .”: interview with Alonzo Fields.

  617 “The White House upstairs . . .”: David McCullough, Truman (1992), p. 373.

  617 “ . . . like a ghost house . . .”: J. B. West, Upstairs at the White House (1973), p. 58.

  617 “Do you think . . .”: Perkins, OH, FDRL.

  617 “a Cabinet Minister . . .”: quoted in Joan Hoff-Wilson and Marjorie Lightman, eds., Without Precedent: The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt (1984), p. 11.

  618 “Traces of grief . . .”: Newsweek, April 30, 1945, p. 44.

>   618 “This is a . . .”: ibid., p. 24.

  618 “Nearly all that . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 189.

  618 “I never did . . .”: ibid.

  618 “I have always . . .”: MD, April 20, 1945.

  618 “We were all in tears”: Nesbitt, White House Diary, p. 313.

  618 “ . . . When you have . . .”: MD, April 20, 1945.

  618 “ . . . feeling of melancholy . . .”: Eleanor Roosevelt, On My Own (1958), p. 1.

  618 “without a backward glance”: Newsweek, April 30, 1945, p. 44.

  618 “Her departure . . .”: BEA, April 20, 1945, p. 5.

  619 “The story is over”: Newsweek, April 30, 1945, p. 44.

  619 “I am realizing . . .”: MD, April 21, 1945.

  619 “It has warmed . . .”: MD, Sept. 9, 1945.

  619 “‘He was like . . .’ ”: MD, Nov. 9, 1945.

  619 “upsurge of love . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 191.

  619 “I find that . . .”: ibid., p. 188.

  619 “Franklin’s greater wisdom . . .”: ibid., p. 186.

  619 “I think we had . . .”: ibid., p. 190.

  620 ER had decided: Eleanor Roosevelt, On My Own, p. 4.

  620 “In talking . . .”: Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972), p. 23.

  620 “No one was . . .”: MD, June 9, 1945.

  620 “His legs straightened out . . .”: J. William T. Youngs, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life (1985), p. 205.

  620 “V-E Day was . . .”: Lash, World of Love, p. 191.

  620 “I cannot help . . .”: NYT, May 9, 1945, p. 18.

  620 “It was without . . .”: The New Yorker Book of War Pieces (1947), p. 474.

  620 “the valiant and . . .”: Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. VI, The Grand Alliance (1953), p. 376.

  621 “with a sharp stab . . .”: ibid., p. 583.

  621 “It’s no use pretending . . .”: Lord Moran, Churchill—The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965 (1966), p. 310.

  621 “His place . . .”: MD, July 29, 1945.

  621 ER had first learned: Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin (1971), pp. 704-7.

  621 “could not help . . .”: MD, Aug. 10, 1945.

  621 number of deaths: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War (1989), p. 746.

  621 U.S. suffered the fewest: information obtained from the Naval Historical Center and the Army Historical Center, Washington, D.C.

  622 “filled with very . . .”: David Emblidge, ed., Eleanor Roosevelt’s “My Day,” vol. II, The Post-War Years, Her Acclaimed Columns, 1945-1952 (1990), p. 28.