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102. Churchill, Closing the Ring 387.
103. John Martin letter, December 2, 1943, quoted in Martin Gilbert, 7 Winston S. Churchill 586 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986).
104. Stalin spent the years 1894 to 1899 as a student at Tiflis Orthodox Theological Seminary. Anthony Eden, The Reckoning 427 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965).
105. Harriman, Special Envoy 277.
106. FRUS, Cairo and Teheran 585.
107. Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew 84–85.
108. Sergo Beria, Beria, My Father 92–94 (London: Duckworth, 2001).
109. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins 770.
110. David Eisenhower, Eisenhower at War, 1943–1945 42–43 (New York: Random House, 1986).
111. The texts of Pershing’s letter and Roosevelt’s reply are in Katherine Tupper Marshall, Together 156–157 (New York: Tupper and Love, 1946).
112. Forrest C. Pogue, The Supreme Command 27 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954).
113. Leahy, I Was There 192.
114. Pogue, Supreme Command 32; Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins 803.
115. Pogue, 3 George C. Marshall 321 (New York: Viking, 1973).
116. Ibid. 321–322.
117. FRUS, Cairo and Teheran 819.
118. Churchill, Closing the Ring 620.
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The epigraph is from FDR’s campaign remarks in Bridgeport, Connecticut, November 4, 1944. 13 Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt 391 Samuel I. Rosenman, ed. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950).
1. Charles E. Bohlen, Witness to History 137 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1973).
2. Lord Hastings Ismay, The Memoirs of General Lord Ismay 338 (New York: Viking, 1960).
3. Stimson diary (MS), December 17, 1943, Yale University.
4. Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time 489 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994).
5. Goodwin, interview with Elliott Roosevelt, ibid.
6. Quoted in John R. Boettiger, Jr., A Love in Shadow 253 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978).
7. Bernard Asbell, Mother and Daughter: The Letters of Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt 176 (New York: Fromm, 1988).
8. 22 Complete Presidential Press Conferences of Franklin D. Roosevelt 246–252 (New York: Da Capo Press, 1972).
9. Roosevelt’s blood pressure was recorded as follows:
July 30, 1935 136/75
April 22, 1937 162/98
November 30, 1940 178/88
February 27, 1941 188/105
March 27, 1944 186/108
Dr. Howard G. Bruenn, “Clinical Notes on the Illness and Death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt,” 72 Annals of Internal Medicine 579–591 (1970).
10. Grace Tully, F.D.R.: My Boss 273–274 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949); Jim Bishop, FDR’s Last Year 5 (New York: Morrow, 1974).
11. Tully, F.D.R.: My Boss 274; James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 448 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970).
12. Asbell, Mother and Daughter 177.
13. Ibid.
14. As the Navy’s wartime surgeon general, a post to which he was appointed in 1938, McIntire had command responsibility for 175,000 doctors, nurses, and other professionals, 52 hospitals, and 278 mobile medical units. Robert H. Ferrell, The Dying President: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944–1945 8 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998).
15. Asbell, Mother and Daughter 177.
16. Bishop, FDR’s Last Year 4.
17. FDR to Frederic Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, December 1, 1938, FDRL.
18. Bishop, FDR’s Last Year 4.
19. Doris Kearns Goodwin interview with Dr. Howard Bruenn, in Goodwin, No Ordinary Time 494.
20. Bishop, FDR’s Last Year 6.
21. Goodwin, No Ordinary Time 494–495.
22. Bruenn, “Critical Notes” 580.
23. Goodwin interview with Dr. Bruenn, quoted in No Ordinary Time 495.
24. Ibid. 496.
25. Ibid.
26. Bruenn, “Clinical Notes” 581.
27. Goodwin, No Ordinary Time 496. For Admiral McIntire’s highly selective account, see Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, White House Physician 183–184 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1946).
28. Admiral McIntire’s press conference remarks are quoted in ibid. 184. Also see The New York Times, April 5, 1944. In fairness to McIntire, the medical culture of the time generally observed a lack of candor in