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9. WSC to FDR, December 10, 1941, 3 Churchill & Roosevelt 284.
10. FDR to WSC, December 10, 1941, ibid. 286–287.
11. David Bercuson and Holger Herwig, One Christmas in Washington 125 (New York: Overlook Press, 2005).
12. Doris Kearns Goodwin, interview with Alonzo Fields, cited in No Ordinary Time 302 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994).
13. Michael Reilly and William J. Slocum, Reilly of the White House 125 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1947).
14. Lillian Rogers Parks, The Roosevelts: A Family in Turmoil 99 (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981). In addition to her father, Elliott, ER’s brother Hall died of acute alcoholism on September 25, 1941.
15. Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance 608 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950).
16. Presidential Press Conference 794, December 23, 1941, 18 Complete Presidential Press Conferences of Franklin D. Roosevelt 387–388 (New York: Da Capo, 1972).
17. Newsweek, January 5, 1942; Alistair Cooke’s comment was made to Curtis Roosevelt in October 1993. Quoted in Jon Meacham, Franklin and Winston 142–143 (New York: Random House, 2003).
18. 6 Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches 6536–6541, Robert Rhodes James, ed. (New York: Chelsea House, 1974).
19. The Washington Post, December 27, 1941.
20. In Ottawa on December 30, 1941, Churchill made his famous “some chicken, some neck” speech to the Canadian Parliament, mocking the words of French general Maxime Weygand, who in June 1940 had told his government that “In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.” “Some chicken!” Churchill told his Canadian listeners. “Some neck!” 6 Speeches of Winston Churchill 6541–6547.
At the invitation of Edward Stettinius, Churchill spent five days at Stettinius’s Pompano Beach oceanfront estate. He enjoyed splashing naked in the surf, “half submerged in the water like a hippopotamus in a swamp,” in the words of his doctor, Lord Moran. The Struggle for Survival: The Diaries of Lord Moran 22 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966).
21. Robert Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins 472–473 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948); Forrest C. Pogue, 2 George C. Marshall 285–287 (New York: Viking, 1966).
22. For firsthand insight into the operation of the Munitions Assignment Board, see the comments of General Lucius D. Clay, the Army’s representative, in Jean Edward Smith, Lucius D. Clay: An American Life 134–139 (New York: Henry Holt, 1990).
23. The text is most easily accessible in Kenneth S. Davis, FDR: The War President 371–372 (New York: Random House, 2000). Also see 11 Public Papers and Addresses 3–4.
24. For this comparison I am indebted to Isaiah Berlin, “Mr. Churchill,” Atlantic Monthly (September 1949).
25. FDR, Address on the State of the Union, January 6, 1942, 11 Public Papers and Addresses 32–42.
26. Stimson diary (MS), January 6, 1942. Yale University.
27. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins 273–274.
28. Smith, Lucius D. Clay 119–126. The chart Clay prepared for the president is reproduced on page 125. A transcript of my interviews with General Clay, some one thousand pages, is on file at the Columbia Oral History Project at Columbia University. The tapes themselves are at the George C. Marshall Library at VMI in Lexington, Virginia, along with Clay’s papers.
In place of the original 45,000 tanks, Roosevelt accepted the Army’s suggestion for 46,523 tracked vehicles (tanks, armored personal carriers, and self-propelled artillery), “of which 24,700 shall be tanks.” The president’s goal of 60,000 airplanes was reduced by 25 percent.
29. Hoover to Biddle, February 1, 1942, quoted in Greg Robinson, By Order of the President 100 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001). Also see Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt 721–722 (New York: PublicAffairs, 2003). Stilwell’s remark was made on December 19, 1941, in Los Angeles. See Richard N. Current, Secretary