Aiken, George, 124
Alexander, Harold, 206
al-Ilah, Abd, 220–21
Allen, George, 10, 11, 53, 109, 110
Allied Reparations Commission, 157, 322
Allies. See also Potsdam meeting
occupation zones in Germany, 207
Allison, Sam, 285
Ambrose, Stephen, 359
American Institute of Public Opinion, 258
Anderson, Clinton P., 224
Arnold, Henry Harley “Hap,” 147–50, 216–17
atomic bomb. See Manhattan Project
Attlee, Clement, 265, 295, 320, 324–25, 340
Augusta, 267, 273–74, 276, 330–31, 341
Austria, Russians close borders, 193
Ayers, Eben, 32, 118, 132, 168, 222–23, 231, 272, 339–40
B-29 bomber, 8, 147–49, 191, 214, 334
Bainbridge, Kenneth T., 272
Barkley, Alben, 27, 83, 93–95, 100, 102, 123, 192
Bell, Jack, 125
Berenstein, Dave, 83
Bernadotte, Folke, 174
Bevin, Ernest, 325
Bird, Kai, 235
Blaisdell, Thomas, 114
Blumentritt, Günther, 180
Bockscar, 345
Boettiger, Anna and John, 26
Bohlen, Charles, 16, 126–27, 165–66, 183, 289, 295, 303
Boring, Floyd, 198
Boston Daily Globe, 215
Braun, Eva, 180
Bricker, John W., 10
Brinkley, Douglas, 359
British Second Army, 150
Brooke, Alan, 309
Brown, Tillie, 156–57
Bruenn, Howard, 23–24
Buchanan, James, 119
Bullitt, William, 17
Byrd, Harry, 94
Byrnes, James F., 338. See also Japan; Potsdam meeting
atomic bomb, 126, 172–73, 190–91, 233, 236–37, 338
relationship with Truman, 84
Roosevelt and vice presidency, 93–97, 100, 102, 113
secretary of state for Truman, 144, 224, 258–59, 262, 265–66, 268
cabinet and cabinet meetings, 155
Cadogan, Alexander, 280
Canfil, Fred, 67, 73, 82, 86, 92–93, 106, 272, 275, 308, 356
appointed U.S. marshal, 159
Chaney, Verne, 58
Chapman, Oscar, 67
Chiang Kai-shek, 208, 271, 313, 317, 350
Chicago Defender, 159
Chicago Tribune, 109, 150, 248
Chiles, Henry, 63
Christian Science Monitor, 68, 107
Churchill, Winston, 16–18, 20, 122, 128, 140, 186–87, 242–43, 279–80
atomic bomb, 172, 299–300, 359
election at end of war, 275–76
iron curtain, 194
meeting with Stalin and Truman, 193–94
reaction to Roosevelt’s death, 36
Clark, Bennett “Champ,” 71, 104
Clifford, Clark, 200, 202, 349
Cochran, John J., 73
Compton, Arthur, 169, 172, 235–36
Conant, James, 170
concentration camps liberated, 7, 150, 179
Connelly, Matthew J., 85–87, 108, 113, 118, 140–41, 143, 156–57
Crowley, Leo, 203
daily routine, President’s, 117, 139, 140. See also Truman, Harry S., vice president
Daly, John Charles, 29
Danaher, John, 131
Daniels, Jonathan, 9, 27, 30–32, 110, 118, 132, 142, 360
Davies, Joseph, 30, 166–67, 196, 209, 213, 242–43, 295
Davis, Jimmie, 189
de Gaulle, Charles, 130, 140, 240–41, 243
Democratic convention 1944
Roosevelt role, 94–95, 98–99, 102
vice-presidential nomination, 10, 95–98, 100–105
“Wallace letter,” 99–100
Democratic National Committee, 109
Dempsey, Miles, 150
Dingell, John, 131
Donovan, Robert J., 356
Donovan, William “Wild Bill,” 205
Dorsett, Lyle W., 72
Douglas, William O., 95, 99, 102
Drescher, George, 278
Eaker, Ira C., 248
Early, Stephen, 23–28, 30, 32, 83, 157
Eden, Anthony, 136, 280, 295, 305
Einstein, Albert, 169
Eisenhower, Dwight D., “Iron Ike,” 7, 36, 181, 240, 319
atomic bomb, 358
in northern Italy, 206
Potsdam meeting preparations, 267–68
return to Washington, 254
Essary, Helen, 142
Faris, Edgar, 77
Ferebee, Thomas, 336–37
Ferrell, Robert H., 65
Floyd, Charles “Pretty Boy,” 69
Flynn, Ed, 96
Ford Motor Company, B-24s, 120
foreign relations. See also Poland; Potsdam meeting; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); Yalta Conference
Forrestal, James, 30, 121, 155, 210, 248
Franck, James, 253
Fulton, Hugh, 86
Gallup, George, poll on 1948 presidential race, 223–24
Gannon, Robert, 348
Garr, Vietta, 202
Himmler’s offer of surrender, 174–75
occupation by four Allies, 181–82
Soviet soldiers looting, 322
Truman tours Frankfurt, 319
Gillette, Guy, 77
Goebbels, Joseph, 180
Goichi Oshima, 337–38
Graham, Wallace, 278
Great Britain, meeting with King George VI, 330
Grew, Joseph, 143, 203, 208, 218, 241, 271, 275
Gromyko, Andrei, 295
Groves, Leslie, 168–71, 190–91, 283, 285, 286, 311–12, 348
Guillain, Robert, 214
Hanford, Washington. See Manhattan Project
Hannegan, Robert, 95–97, 99, 101–2, 157, 201
Harding, Warren G., 132
Harriman, Averell, 18–22, 35, 114, 136–37, 163–64, 295
Harrison, George L., 286
Hassett, Bill, 21, 27, 140, 339
Hayden, Carl, 347
Helm, Edith, 184
Higgins, Andrew, 120
Hillman, Sidney, 97
Hinde, Edgar, 63
Hirschfelder, Joe, 285
Hiss, Alger, 260
Hitler, Adolf, 36, 70, 104, 150–51, 179–80
Hoover, J. Edgar, 158
Hornig, Donald, 285
Howe, Clarence Decatur “C. D.,” 348
Hubbard, Jack, 283
Hurley, Patrick, 313, 317, 320, 351
Huston, Luther, 143
Independence Examiner, 63
Iraq, 220–22
Israel, 357
Italy
Jackson, Andrew, 49
Jackson, Robert H., 119
Jackson County politics, 63–69
Pendergast machine violence, 69
Jacobson, Eddie, 55, 61–62, 111, 137, 264
Japan, 269–70. See also Potsdam Declaration
atomic bomb or invasion, 251–52, 270
emperor, 218, 305–6, 313–14, 347
Hiroshima, military target, 333, 336, 337–39, 341, 343
incendiary strikes, 8, 147–50, 214–17, 275, 332–33
meeting on forcing surrender of, 248–49
peace feelers, 275, 287, 301, 305, 325
Pearl Harbor, 87–88
Rape of Nanking, 216
Soviet entry into war, 306–7
surrenders, 348–49, 350, 352–53, 355
treatment of POWs, 216
Japanese Thirty-Second Army, 8
Jefferson, Thomas, 114
Jodl, Alfred, 186
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 121–22, 217–18, 248–51
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 232
“Kansas City massacre,” 69
Kansas City Star, 67, 74, 82, 97, 159
Keitel, Wilhelm, 232
Kennan, George, 17, 162, 207, 289
Keynes, John Maynard, 153–54
King, Ernest, 248
Kiplinger, Willard M., 10
Kleenex company, machine gun mounts, 120
Ku Klux Klan, 109
LaCapra, Michael “Jimmy Needles,” 74
Laurence, William L., 345
Lawrence, Ernest, 235
Lazia, “Brother John,” 74
League of Nations, 176
atomic bomb, 165–66, 173, 276, 330, 358
chief of staff, 121–23, 127, 139
Japan, war in, 216, 250–51, 306, 347
military briefings to president, 139
Polish situation, 165–66
Potsdam meeting, 275, 295, 303, 325, 329
on Truman, 143
on Yalta, 161–62
LeMay, Curtis, “Iron Ass,” 8, 147–49, 214–15, 275, 332–33
Lewis, J. Hamilton, 76
Lewis, Robert, 336–37
List, Eugene, 307–8
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 52
Long, Dewey, 21
Long, Huey, 77
Los Alamos. See Manhattan Project
Los Angeles Times, 119
Luce, Clare Boothe, 109
MacArthur, Douglas, 350–52, 355–56
MacLeish, Archibald, 164
Magnuson, Warren, 347
Manhattan Project, 126, 169–72, 252, 358. See also Japan
and British, 172
deadline for test prior to Big Three meeting, 252
decision to drop the atomic bomb, 314–15
expense of, 173
Fat Man bombing of Nagasaki, 345–46
final recommendations by Stimson, 233–34, 314
Hanford, Washington, plutonium production in, 171
Interim Committee, 190, 236, 286
Little Boy bomb, 326, 333–36, 341, 343
Marshall suggests warning Japanese civilians, 234
morality of, 252–54
plutonium production in Pasco, Washington, 92–93
scientists’ progress, 235
scientists’ reaction to Roosevelt’s death, 37
Target Committee, 190–91
third bomb prepared, 348
Trinity test, 281–87, 299–300, 311–12
Mansfield, Mike, 347
Marshall, George C., 7, 86, 113, 121–22, 170, 222
argues for ground invasion of Japan, 248–50
atomic bomb, opinion on use, 359
report on Nazi death camps, 192
Martin, Joseph, 123
Masaryk, Jan, 183
McCloy, John J., 151, 152, 248, 251–52, 305
McCormack, John W., 123
McDuffie, Lizzie, 14
McKellar, Kenneth, 187–88
McKim, Eddie, 6, 12, 25, 57, 108, 119, 132, 158, 200
Mee, Charles L., Jr., 317
Menefee, Walter, 59
Menor, David, 147
Milligan, Jacob “Tuck,” 73
Minton, Sherman, 100
Mission to Moscow (Davies), 166
Missouri, 263
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 35, 127, 162, 164, 295, 320
Morgenthau, Henry, 15, 30, 144, 155
Mr. Citizen (Truman), 363
Mundt, Karl, 204
Murphy, Harry, 57
Murrow, Edward R., 150, 189, 332, 351–52
Mussolini, Benito, shot by partisans, 179
Myers, Harry T., 195
National Defense Research Committee, 170
Nelson, Donald, 76
New Republic, 107
newspapers and reporters, 125–26, 139, 140–42
New York Times, 74, 86, 104, 140, 143, 173, 202, 263–64, 345, 351
Nimitz, Chester, 146
Nixon, Robert, 27, 141, 199–200, 239, 273, 275, 281
Noland, Ethel and Nellie, 44, 48, 49, 60
Norstad, Larry, 147
O’Conor, Herbert, 105
Ohrdruf death camp, 7
O’Mahoney, Joseph, 347
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 37, 170–71, 234–36, 252–53, 283–84, 286
Osmeña, Sergio, 158
Parsons, William Sterling, 336, 343
Pauley, Edwin, 95–96, 103, 157, 322, 351
Paullin, James, 23–24
Pavlov, Vladimir, 165, 288, 295, 308, 316, 321
Pendergast, “Boss” Tom, 11, 64, 65, 69, 70–72, 74, 78–79, 113
Pendergast, Mike, 63–64
Pentagon, 9–10
Perkins, Pansy, 45
Pershing, John J., 56
Peters, Mize, 66
deal between Russians and Poles, 231
State Department on international relations, 130–31
Truman’s meetings with Molotov, 163–66
and USSR, 18–19, 127–28, 136–37, 309
Yalta agreements on, 113
Potsdam Declaration, 270, 313, 317, 320, 340, 346–47
Potsdam meeting, 211, 226–27, 267, 291–98, 302–3, 304–5, 307–11, 326–29, 331–32, 343
attendees and agenda, 295–96
Churchill at, 268, 295, 302, 304, 319
German warship question, 296–97
preparation and travel, 272–73, 275–78, 286, 328–31
recognition of satellite states, 316
reparations from Germany, 321–23
Pulitzer, Joseph, Jr., 156
Rabi, Isidor, 284
Rankin, Jeannette, 88
Rayburn, Sam, 25, 27, 30, 94–95, 123, 135
Reiff, Henry, 258
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 232
Richards, James, 192
Rise to Globalism (Ambrose & Brinkley), 359
Roach, Neale, 103
Roberts, Roy, 97
Robertson, William, 178
Robinson, H. G., 86
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 23–24, 26–27, 30, 99, 141, 159–60, 247, 343
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 70, 198
“Arsenal of Democracy” fireside chat, 84, 120
cable to Truman after election, 111
East Coast establishment, 33, 132, 136, 224
fourth term, and ill health, 10–12, 14–16, 112
secretly in Chicago, 98–99
Senate votes for war after speech, 87–88
Roosevelt, Franklin D., death of, 23–24, 133. See also Truman, Harry S., on Roosevelt’s death
Roosevelt, Theodore, 49–50
Rosenman, Sam, 99, 181, 218, 248, 331
Ross, Charlie, 156–57, 248, 257, 259, 261–62, 272
Rowley, James, 26
Russell, Richard, 348
Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer, 21
Sachs, Alexander, 169
Sacred Cow (president’s plane), 195–97, 256–57, 260
Saltonstall, Leverett, 12
San Francisco conference, 33, 121–22, 175, 189
charter signing, 259
disagreements among Allies, 182–83, 189
huge welcome for Truman, 258
and Poland, 183
Security Council veto power, 206–7, 240
Truman radio address, 176
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 198
Schwellenbach, Lewis, 199, 342
Second Armored “Hell on Wheels” Division, 277
Sermon, Roger, 260
Shannon, Joe, 64
Sherman, James, 50
Sherwin, Martin, 235
Sherwood, Robert, 35
Shoop, Duke, 159
Shoumatoff, Elizabeth, 22
Simmons, Bill, 118
Smith, Ira, 184
Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, 84–86, 88–89
Spitzer, Abe, 335
Stalin, Joseph, 16–20, 120, 288–89
heated meeting with Harriman, 136–37
and Japan, 244–46
refuses to announce Germany’s surrender, 186–87
reneges on Yalta agreements, 126–27
and San Francisco conference, 127
secret agreements with Roosevelt, 161–62
State Department, 17, 129–31, 151
Stettinius, Edward, 27, 30–31, 121–22, 126, 144, 155, 259
learns of replacement by Byrnes, 258–59
at San Francisco conference, 175–76, 182, 240, 258
U.S. representative to the United Nations, 262
Stimson, Henry, 30–31, 33, 86, 121, 152, 155, 166, 168, 233–35, 241, 268
atomic bomb, 92–93, 172, 297, 311–12, 314–15, 326, 338, 340, 359
cabinet meetings, Truman’s, 155
Interim Committee, 190–91
on Potsdam meeting, 271
report on Nazi death camps, 192
ultimatum and warning to Japan drafted, 287
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 74, 82, 156
stock market crash, 67–68
Stone, Harlan F., 30, 32, 111, 222
Strout, Richard, 107
Suckley, Margaret “Daisy,” 21, 22
Summerlin, George Thomas, 220
Susloparov, Ivan, 180
Suzuki, Kantarō, 324
Sweeney, Charles, 346
Taft, William Howard, 49
Teller, Edward, 284–85
Time, 89, 114, 145, 215, 218–19
Tinian, 333–34
Togo, Shigenori, 313
Tolman, Richard, 170
Tomiko Morimoto, 337
Truman, Elizabeth “Bess,” 4, 104–6, 120, 225
Truman, Harry (nephew), 299
Truman, Harry S., 159
Truman, Harry S., and Bess Wallace, 48–49, 51, 60–61, 65, 92, 145, 360
Truman, Harry S., business and finance
Truman, Harry S., diary and letters
to family from Senate, 13
on the FBI, 158
to his mother, 157, 187, 189–90
on Jackson County politics, 69–70
letters from Missouri friends, 137–38
memoirs, on being president, 139
reaction to Roosevelt’s death, 33–34
on reporters, 196
on running for the Senate, 72–73
Truman, Harry S., education
Truman, Harry S., in politics. See also Democratic convention 1944
Jackson County judge (commissioner), 63–69
Kansas City courthouse, 67
paved roads in rural Kansas, 66–67
Truman, Harry S., on Roosevelt’s death, 30–32, 33–34, 133–34
Truman, Harry S., president, 142, 199, 356
comparison to Roosevelt, 141, 143–44, 198, 301–2
considers resigning, 318
domestic issues, 247–48
first day as president, 117–28
first message to Congress, 122, 135–36
flies to Tacoma, Washington, 256
Independence speech, 262
intimate knowledge of the home front, 120
loneliness of, 226
poker games, 199–200, 205, 239, 275
recreation and escape from stress, 239
reelection, 357
relationship with staff, 198–99
relationship with the press, 125
trip home to Missouri, 260–61
Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan, 357
war cabinet and joint chiefs initial meeting, 121–22
Truman, Harry S., senator, 76–78
Pendergast and, 70–71, 75–76, 77–79
Senate campaign, 73–74, 80–84, 107
Truman committee importance, 89–90
Truman, Harry S., vice president, 3–6, 11–13, 25–26, 38
presides over Senate, 112
Truman, Harry S., VP campaign, 107–12
Truman, Harry S., World War I, 55–60
Truman, John Anderson, 41–42, 47, 49, 51
Truman, John C. (nephew), 356
Truman, John Vivian (brother), 159
Truman, Margaret, 4, 28, 31–32, 78, 143, 185, 201, 222, 238
Truman, Martha Ellen (Mamma), 41–42, 45, 49, 52, 61, 107, 110, 144, 343
Truman, Mary Jane, 36–37, 43–44, 54, 84, 187, 195, 196, 197, 200
Truman-Wheeler bill, 78–79
Turkey, Soviet Union and, 309
Twain, Mark, 198
Twenty-First Bomber Command, 8, 147–48, 332
Twining, Nathan Farragut, 257
Tyler, John “His Accidency,” 119
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 298–99
deteriorated relations with US after Yalta, 126, 136
and eastern European countries, 18–19, 193, 356–57
and Germany, 186–87
Great Purge, 16–17
on Roosevelt’s death, 35–36
US, on avoiding war with, 209–10
WWII alliance and subsequent breakdown, 17–20
United Nations, 323. See also San Francisco conference
United Nations Conference on International Organization. See San Francisco conference
U.S. Ninth Army, 6
USS Missouri, 355
U.S. Tenth Army, 8
Vandenberg, Arthur, 35, 77, 119, 124, 176, 183, 259, 266
Van Kirk, Theodore “Dutch,” 337
Vaughan, Harry, 3, 65, 81, 86, 108, 140, 272, 275
Veatch, Tom, 67
Vinson, Fred, 239, 268, 331, 342
Vyshinsky, Andrey, 295
Wallace, Elizabeth “Bess.” See Truman, Elizabeth “Bess”
Wallace, George, 144
Wallace, Henry, 11, 29, 93–95, 97, 99–100, 102–4, 204
cabinet meetings, Truman’s, 155
Wallgren, Monrad, 256–57
War Relocation Authority, 216
Washington, DC, employment boom, 9
Washington News, 254
Washington Post, 69, 71, 74, 76, 81, 256, 273
Washington Times-Herald, 142
Welles, Orson, 109
Whaley, Richard, 265
Wherry, Ken, 13
White House
Cabinet Room, 3, 29–32, 154, 186, 241
China Room, 185
Diplomatic Reception Room, 176, 188, 342
East Portico, 265
East Room, 134
funerals, 133–34
“the Great White Jail,” 239
Lincoln Bedroom, 186
Map Room, 139–40
North Portico, 185
Oval Office, 76, 118, 141, 268
Red Room, 33
staff of, 184–85
State Dinner, first for Truman, 220–22
Trumans move in, 159, 184, 186–87
West Wing, 186
Wickard, Claude Raymond, 30, 224
Wiley, Alexander, 12–13
Wilson, Woodrow, 49–50, 52, 176, 226
Winant, John, 319
Wise, Stephen, 158
Wooden, McKinley, 59
World Today, The, 29
World War II, 130, 189. See also Japan
American and Russian armies meet, 178
atomic bomb and end of war, 350
Central Europe, 151
concentration camps liberated, 150
Eisenhower in Germany, 151–52
Europe’s food problems, 181
Germany’s surrender, 178–79, 181, 186–87, 188
Hitler reported dead, 179–80
Italy surrender, 179
Korea and Manchuria occupation, 351
Nazi blitzkrieg in Europe, 80
report on Nazi death camps, 192
Soviets surround Nazis in Vienna, 6
Yalta Conference, 112–13
Declaration on Liberated Europe, 18, 131
failure of, 20
secret agreements with Stalin, concessions from China, 161–62, 208–9
Yugoslavia, northern Italy territory of Venezia Giulia seizure, 205–6
Zhukov, Georgy, 317
Zionist Organization of America, 158