He had tremendous native courage. He had, what really gets down to the word, “guts.” He had no fear of anything. He had a tremendous sense of patriotism and an awe of the Presidency.
—Robert Nixon, journalist at Potsdam, on Harry Truman
My God, what have we done.
—Enola Gay copilot Robert A. Lewis, while staring down at the Hiroshima mushroom cloud