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23. Schlesinger, Crisis of the Old Order 262.
24. The text of Hurley’s order to MacArthur, reprinted in The New York Times, July 29, 1932, reads as follows:
TO: General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army.
The President has just informed me that the civil government of the District of Columbia has reported to him that it is unable to maintain law and order in the District.
You will have United States troops proceed immediately to the scene of disorder. Cooperate fully with the District of Columbia police force which is now in charge. Surround the affected area and clear it without delay.
Turn over all prisoners to the civil authorities.
In your orders insist that any women and children who may be in the affected area be accorded every consideration and kindness. Use all humanity consistent with the due execution of this order.
Patrick J. Hurley
Secretary of War
25. Martin Blumenson, Patton: The Man Behind the Legend 133–135 (New York: William Morrow, 1985).
26. The New York Times, July 29, 1932.
27. Washington Daily News, July 29, 1932.
28. Rexford G. Tugwell, The Brains Trust 357–359 (New York: Viking Press, 1968).
29. Ibid. 427–434. “I’ve known Doug for years,” FDR told Tugwell. “You’ve never heard him talk, but I have. He has the most pretentious style of anyone I know. He talks in a voice that might come from the oracle’s cave. He never doubts and never argues or suggests; he makes pronouncements. What he thinks is final. Besides, he’s intelligent, a brilliant soldier like his father before him. He got to be a brigadier general in France. I thought he was the youngest until I read that Glassford was. There could be times that Doug would exactly fit. We’ve just had a preview.”
30. Farley, Behind the Ballots 160–161.
31. Ibid. 65, 155.
32. Henry L. Stimson, MS diary, June 18, 1931, Yale University. When the campaign began, Stimson worried that Hoover and his advisers had underestimated Roosevelt. That, plus the economy, “gives us an uphill fight. Also, there is no split in the Democratic party as there was in 1896, and there is no Mark Hanna in the Republican party.” Ibid., July 5, 1932.
33. Grace Tully, F.D.R.: My Boss 60 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949).
34. Stimson, MS diary, September 6, 1932. The White House continued to pressure Stimson, but he refused to comply. “I think that to attack a presidential candidate who is a cripple and who has a pleasant appearance, particularly when the attack comes from a close advisor of the President, is about the most dangerous thing that the President and his foolish advisors can settle on, and I hate to be the goat.” Ibid., September 22, 1932.
35. In 1917, Stimson, at the age of forty-nine, volunteered for active duty and was assigned as first a major, then a lieutenant colonel, to the 305th Field Artillery Battalion of the 77th Division. Promoted to colonel, he commanded the 31st Artillery Regiment at war’s end. Stimson’s battalion was the first American unit to fire at the enemy in France, and he was the first secretary of war to serve on active duty afterward. (At FDR’s request, Patrick J. Hurley returned to the Army as a major general in World War II.) Henry L. Stimson and McGeorge Bundy, On Active Service in Peace and War 91–100 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947).
36. Herbert Hoover, 3 Memoirs 233 (New York: Macmillan, 1952).
37. Quoted in Kenneth S. Davis, FDR: The New York Years 362 (New York: Random House, 1979), and many others. See FDR’s remarkable