Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (176 page)

“Mrs. Roosevelt has been winning”: From Churchill, Nov. 1, 1942.

“What would you do in China”: ER, 2:284.

“Those delicate little petal-like fingers”: Lash, 679.

“This trip will be attacked”: Ibid., 682.

“This is the kind of thing”: From ER, Sept. 6, 1943, FDRL.

“I’ve never been so hedged”: Lash, 688.

“Wherever Mrs. Roosevelt went”:
Christian Advocate,
Dec. 30, 1943.

“I wrote a column”: ER to Joseph Lash, July 14, 1944, FDRL.

“I don’t think Pa”: Roosevelt and Shalett, 353.

“Mrs. Roosevelt urged the President”: Sherwood, 831.

“Men and women”:
New York Times,
Aug. 26, 1945.

“We rejoice with the gallant French people”: Statement, Aug. 24, 1944.

“We should have sufficient material”: Briefing paper by Groves, Dec. 30, 1944,
FRUS: Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945.

“This was the first indication”: Sherwood, 844–45.

“He says that if we had spent ten years”: Log of Malta trip, Feb. 2, 1945,
FRUS: Malta and Yalta.

“more bloodthirsty…only out of kindness”: Bohlen notes of Roosevelt-Stalin meeting, Feb. 4, 1945,
FRUS: Malta and Yalta.

“the whole map of Europe, in fact”: Combined Chiefs of Staff minutes of Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill meeting, Feb. 4, 1945,
FRUS: Malta and Yalta.

“Marshal Stalin, the President, and the Prime Minister…where for they sang”: Bohlen minutes of Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill dinner meeting, Feb. 4, 1945,
FRUS: Malta and Yalta.

“I would like to know, definitely…would be the limit”: H. Freeman Matthews minutes, Feb. 5, 1945,
FRUS: Malta and Yalta.

“in the Black Sea area”: Joint communiqué, Feb. 7, 1945,
FRUS: Malta and Yalta.

“in an excellent humor…from our grasp”: Bohlen minutes, Feb. 8, 1945,
FRUS: Malta and Yalta.

“I come from a great distance…they will be shot”: Matthews minutes, Feb. 6, 1945,
FRUS: Malta and Yalta.

“I am greatly disturbed”: To Stalin, Feb. 6, 1945.

“Nazi Germany is doomed…and secret ballot”: Yalta communiqué, Feb. 12, 1945,
FRUS: Malta and Yalta.

“The leaders of the three Great Powers”: Agreement, Feb. 11, 1945,
FRUS: Malta and Yalta.

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“It was the best I could do”: Berle, 477.

“Ten years from now”: Bohlen minutes, Feb. 6, 1945,
FRUS: Malta and Yalta.

“The President has lost ten pounds”: Margaret Suckley,
Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley,
ed. Geoffrey C. Ward (1995), 346.

“I had quite a talk with Anna”: Ibid., 366–70.

“He was obviously greatly fatigued”: Bruenn, “Clinical Notes.”

“very tired”: Churchill, 6:391, 397.

“Franklin feels his death very much”: Suckley,
Closest Companion,
397.

“I hope that you will pardon me…We cannot fail them again”: Address to Congress, March 1, 1945.

“I did not think it”: Hassett, 318.

“Tonight had another talk”: Ibid., 327–28.

“The drive was too long”: Suckley,
Closest Companion,
413.

“His color was much better”: Bruenn, “Clinical Notes.”

“preceded by an Old-fashioned cocktail”: Hassett, 332.

“His voice was wonderful”: Smith,
Thank You, Mr. President,
186.

“I have been offered”: Morgenthau, 3:417.

“In the quiet beauty of the Georgia spring”: Hassett, 333.

“He had slept well”: Bruenn, “Clinical Notes.”

“He came in, looking very fine”: Suckley,
Closest Companion,
417.

“He was in good spirits but did not look well”: Hassett, 333.

“We have fifteen minutes…‘back of my head’”: Suckley,
Closest Companion,
418.

“It was apparent that the President”: Bruenn, “Clinical Notes” Notes by Bruenn, April 12, 1945, FDRL.

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“I have a terrible announcement to make…miracle”:
New York Times
and
Washington Post,
April 13–16, 1945.

“He should gain weight…in the question”: Lash, 719–20.

“I did not even ask why”: ER, 2:344.

“I am more sorry for the people…trouper to the last”: Ibid.;
New York Times,
April 13, 1945; McCullough,
Truman,
342.

She said that Lucy had been with the president: Lash, 722.

“I had schooled myself to believe”: ER, 2:348–49.

“She would rather light a candle”:
New York Times,
Nov. 8, 1962.

“Americans are gathered together”: Posthumous message, April 13, 1945.

“You cannot go all this way”: Churchill, 4:694.

“It’s the most lovely spot”: Charles McMoran Wilson Moran,
Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940–1965, Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran
(1966), 90.

“Come, Pendar, let’s go home”: Kenneth Pendar,
Adventure in Diplomacy: Our French Dilemma
(1945), 154.

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Traitor to his class: the privileged life and radical presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / H. W. Brands.—1st ed.

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1. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882–1945. 2. Presidents—United States—Biography. 3. United States—Politics and government—1933–1945. I. Title.

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