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“I realize that such”: Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe. “A raucous voice”: Alanbrooke, War Diaries, p. 497. “I feel relieved”: Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War, p. 781. “I do not remember”: Samuel Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952), p. 411. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: AT LAST, OVERLORD “Every obstacle must be”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe (New York: Doubleday, 1948). “For the sort of attack”: Ibid. “Nice chap”: Nate Rawlings, “Top 10 Across-the-Pond Duos: Montgomery and Eisenhower,” Time, June 20, 2010, http://con tent.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2005073_2005072_2005116,00.html. “General Montgomery has”: Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe. “When I think of”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends (New York: Doubleday, 1967), p. 273. “General,” Churchill said: Ibid., p. 274. Afterward, Churchill announced: Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe. “I went to my tent”: Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe. “Some soldier once said”: Ibid. Eisenhower had a terrible: Ibid. “Okay, we’ll go”: There are different versions of Eisenhower’s actual words. According to Timothy Rives, acting director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library: Ike’s chief of staff, Lieutenant General Bedell Smith, recalled, “Well, we’ll go”; intelligence officer Major General Kenneth Strong recalled, “Okay, boys, we will go”; Eisenhower himself recalled, “Okay, we’ll go” in an interview with Walter Cronkite. “I found the men”: Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe. “Our landings in”: Ibid. “There’s not going to be”: David Irving, The Trail of the Fox (New York: Dutton, 1977), p. 490. “He was very surprised”: “D-Day Oral Histories,” World War II Foundation, https://www.wwiifoundation.org/students/d-day-oral-histories/. “I looked into the well”: Ibid. “We’ll start the war”: Jesse Greenspan, “Landing at Normandy: The 5 Beaches of D-Day,” History, August 30, 2018, https://www.history.com/news/landing-at-normandy-the-5-beaches-of-d-day. “We were scared”: Jason Simulcik, interview with Guy C. Nicely, John A. Adams Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis Military Oral History Project, Virginia Military Institute, October 6, 2006, http://digitalcollections.vmi.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15821coll13/id/392/rec/52. “Somebody said, ‘Go over’”: Corey J. Bachman, interview with Joseph L. Argenzio, John A. Adams Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis Military Oral History Project, Virginia Military Institute, October 30, 2006, http://digitalcollections.vmi.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15821coll13/id/24/rec/3. “It was a hot, hot, hot”: William Doyle, interview with Arthur Schintzel, John A. Adams Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis Military Oral History Project, Virginia Military Institute, October 22, 2006, http://digitalcollections.vmi.edu/cdm/compound object/collection/p15821coll13/id/490/rec/66. “like a garden hose”: Walter Halloran oral history, The Digital Collections of The National WW II Museum, https://www.ww2online.org/view/walter-halloran. “Very heavy firing”: Robert Strunsky and Paul M. Hollister, From D-Day through Victory in Europe: The Eyewitness Story as Told by War Correspondents on the Air (New York: Columbia Broadcasting System, 1945), p. 79. “there was nothing”: Ed Cray, General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman (New York: Norton, 1990). “Almighty God”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “D-Day Prayer,” June 6, 1944, Master Speech File, no. 1519, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/msf/msfb0149. When John’s name was called: Strunsky and Hollister, From D-Day through Victory in Europe, p. 84. “Everything has started well”: Winston S. Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1959), p. 813. “As is evident”: Ibid., p. 813. “ATTENTION! DANGER! WARNING!”: Marilyn Mayer Culpepper, Never Will We Forget: Oral Histories of World War II (New York: Praeger, 2008), p. 51. “From the start”: Eisenhower, At Ease, p. 290. “Since we are so near”: Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War, p. 815. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: FDR’S FINAL ACT “I found the Boss”: Grace Tully, F.D.R., My Boss (Chicago: Peoples Book Club, 1949), p. 274. “She & I”: Geoffrey C. Ward, Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995), p. 380. “Mr. Roosevelt did not want”: A. Merriman Smith, Thank You, Mr. President: A White House Notebook (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946), p. 145. “The man had one”: David M. Jordan, FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011), p. 27. In his note: Tully, F.D.R., My Boss, p. 276. “The Vice President”: David McCullough, Truman (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992). “1600 Pennsylvania”: Ibid. “Anyone with a grain”: James A. Farley, Jim Farley’s Story: The Roosevelt Years (New York: Whittlesey House, 1948), p. 365. “If we see that Germany”: McCullough, Truman. “Things are moving”: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin, My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin, edited by Susan Butler (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), July 17, 1944. “The politicians wanted”: Michael F. Reilly, Reilly of the White House: Behind the Scenes with FDR (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1947), p. 191. “as if he was mumbling”: William M. Rigdon, White House Sailor (New York: Doubleday, 1962), p. 131. “I have never been”: Jordan, FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944, p. 273. “It was a well-wrapped”: Reilly, Reilly of the White House, p. 212. “I was really worried”: Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961), p. 272. “If the people”: W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941–1946 (New York: Random House, 1975), p. 367. “I remember my first”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Remarks to the Torchlight Paraders on Election Night, Hyde Park, New York,” November 7, 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/php11744.html. “Dog catchers have taken”: Reilly, Reilly of the White House, p. 200. “The first twelve years”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presidential Press Conference, January 19, 1945. “his face looked thin”: Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew (New York: Viking, 1946), p. 374. “Jimmy, I can’t take this”: James Roosevelt, Affectionately, F.D.R.: A Son’s Story of a Lonely Man (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1959), p. 355. There might have been: James F. Byrnes, Speaking Frankly (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947). p. 22. “I have been”: “The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to Mr. Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to President Roosevelt,” FRUS: Diplomatic Papers, 1944, Europe, vol. 4, Document 901, Moscow, September 10, 1944. “I am firmly convinced”: Roosevelt and Stalin, My Dear Mr. Stalin, October 4, 1944. “We specifically desired”: Edward R. Stettinius, Roosevelt and the Russians: The Yalta Conference (New York: Doubleday, 1950). “Well, you know”: Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It: The Story of the World Conferences of F.D.R. (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946), p. 222. “I shall be waiting”: “Arrangements for the Conference”: Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt, London, Roosevelt Papers, telegram, January 1, 1945, FRUS: Diplomatic Papers, Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, https://history.state.gov/historical documents/frus1945Malta/d38. “if we had spent”: “The President’s Log at Malta,” Log of the Trip, February 2, 1945, FRUS: Diplomatic Papers, Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus 1945Malta/d290. “You can’t”: Reilly, Reilly of the White House, p. 212. “I saw the kind”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Message to Congress re the Yalta Conference,” March 1, 1945, Master Speech File, no. 1572-A, 1572-B, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/msf/msfb0209. “I can’t understand”: S. M. Plokhy, Yalta: The Price of Peace (New York: Penguin, 2010), p. 47. more bloodthirsty: “Roosevelt-Stalin meeting,” February 4, 1945, 4 P.M., Bohlen Minutes, FRUS: Diplomatic Papers, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, Document 328, https://history.state.gov/his toricaldocuments/frus1945Malta/d328. “The eagle should permit”: “Tripartite dinner meeting,” February 4, 1945, 8:30 P.M., Bohlen Minutes, FRUS: Diplomatic Papers, Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, Document 331, https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945Malta/d331. “If I could see”: Byrnes, Speaking Frankly, p. 26. “If our treatment”: Ibid., p. 27. “All I can say”: Ibid., p. 28. “The Russians have given”: Roll, The Hopkins Touch, p. 371. “I have a list”: Speaking Frankly, p. 38. “When should they”: Ibid., p. 39. “I agree that”: Byrnes, Speaking Frankly, p. 25. “Winston and Eden fought”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 858. He acknowledged that: “Second Plenary Meeting,” February 5, 1945, 4 P.M., Bohlen Minutes, FRUS: Diplomatic Papers, Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, Document 336–341, https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945Malta/d354. “Britain declared war”: Byrnes, Speaking Frankly, p. 31. “For the Russian”: Ibid., p. 31. “They all say that”: Ibid. “How long will it take”: Ibid., p. 32. “beyond question”: Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life, p. 611. His thoughts on: Stettinius, Roosevelt and the Russians. “I had a distinct feeling”: Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life, p. 611. “Stalin impressed me”: Stettinius, Roosevelt and the Russians. “History has recorded”: Hiroaki Kuromiya, Stalin (New York: Routledge Publishing, 2013), p. 184. “They have enough”: Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It, pp. 242–43. “We really believed”: Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948), p. 870. “a diplomatic triumph”: Stettinius, Roosevelt and the Russians. “It is the story”: Lord Moran, Churchill at War (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2002), p. 283. “I am too sick”: David L. Roll, The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 377. “We got away”: Ward, Closest Companion, p. 396. “Grace,” he’d said: Tully, F.D.R., My Boss, p. 367. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE WORLD HE LEFT BEHIND “I hope that you”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Message to Congress re the Yalta Conference,” March 1, 1945, Master Speech File, no. 1572-A, 1572-B, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/msf/msfb0209. “Of course, we know”: Ibid. “so tired that”: Geoffrey C. Ward, Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995), p. 401. one evening she called him: Michael Dobbs, Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman from World War to Cold War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012). “I am certain”: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin, My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin, edited by Susan Butler (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), April 4, 1945. “I have never doubted”: Ibid., April 7, 1945. “Let me assure you”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Day by Day,” April 11, 1945. “Lucy is such a”: Ward, Closest Companion, p. 415. “Mr. President, you look”: Ibid., p. 417. “I have a terrific pain”: Ibid., p. 418. “I was cold as ice”: Ibid., p. 418. “The night of April 12”: A. Merriman Smith, Thank You, Mr. President: A White House Notebook (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946), p. 189. “DARLINGS: PA SLEPT”: James Roosevelt, Affectionately, F.D.R., p. 361. “I listened and listened”: Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948), p. 880. “sheer damned nonsense”: John Morton Blum, From the Morgenthau Diaries (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1959), diary entry April 16, 1945. Anna placed a call: Bernard Asbell, Mother and Daughter: The Letters of Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt (New York: Penguin, 1982), p. 187. “I . . . hated the fact”: James Roosevelt, Affectionately, F.D.R.: A Son’s Story of a Lonely Man (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1959), pp. 363–64. “As he told several”: Ward, Closest Companion, p. 422. “As the saying goes”: Winston Churchill, “Eulogy in the Commons for the Late President Roosevelt,” April 17, 1945, http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1945/1945-04-17a.html. “President Roosevelt has died”: W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941–1946 (New York: Random House, 1975), p. 442. “When the signing”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends (New York: Doubleday, 1967), p. 293. “If they had been”: Lily Rothman, “How the World Learned of Hitler’s Death,” Time, April 30, 2015, http://time.com/3829048/death-of-hitler-history/. “a new weapon”: McCullough, Truman. “The enemy has begun”: “Emperor Hirohito, Accepting the Potsdam Declaration,” radio address, August 14, 1945, https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/hirohito.htm. “Roosevelt believed in”: V. M. Molotov and Felix Chuev, Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (trans.) (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1993). “We are still”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presidential Press Conference, December 28, 1943. “It was asserted”: Bernard Gwertzman, “Stalin’s Interpreter Recalls Roosevelt Was Conciliator,” New York Times, February 8, 1970, https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/08/archives/stalins-interpreter-recallsroosevelt-was-conciliator.html. “that the only reason”: Arnold Beichman, “Roosevelt’s Failure at Yalta,” Hoover Digest, 2004, no. 4 (Hoover Institution, October 30, 2004). When Stettinius first met: Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., The Diaries of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., 1943–1946, edited by Thomas M. Campbell and George C. Herrings (New York: New Viewpoints, 1975), p. 118. “Roosevelt knew how”: Molotov, Molotov Remembers. “A freely elected government”: Robert C. Grogin, Natural Enemies: The United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War 1917–1991 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), p. 80. “President Roosevelt was”: Edward R. Stettinius, Roosevelt and the Russians: The Yalta Conference (New York: Doubleday, 1950). “The Western Allied leaders”: R. C. Raack, Stalin’s Drive to the West, 1938–1948: The Origins of the Cold War (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995), p. 77. “conduct unbecoming”: Ibid., p. 103. “What amazed those of us”: Hugh Lunghi, “Glimpses—Troubled Triumvirate: The Big Three at the Summit,” Finest Hour 135 (Summer 2007), International Churchill Society, https://winston churchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-135/glimpses-troubled-triumvirate-the-big-three-at-thesummit/. “In my opinion”: John R. Deane, The Strange Alliance: The Story of Our Efforts at Wartime Cooperation with Russia (New York: Viking Press, 1947), p. 331. “If history teaches”: Ronald Reagan, speech to the House of Commons, June 8, 1982, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/speech-to-the-house-of-commons/.