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160. 13 Public Papers and Addresses 586, 578.
161. Hassett, Off the Record with FDR 324–325. “I do not think we will ever see the President alive again,” Mrs. Jackson told her husband afterward. Robert H. Jackson, That Man: An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt 154, John Q. Barrett, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
162. Bruenn, “Clinical Notes” 590.
163. Goodwin, No Ordinary Time 596.
164. Tully, F.D.R., My Boss 356.
165. Jean Edward Smith, Lucius D. Clay: An American Life 215–216 (New York: Henry Holt, 1990).
166. Reilly, Reilly of the White House 226–227; Hassett, Off the Record 327.
167. Hassett, Off the Record 327–329. Also see Michael Beschloss, The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941–1945 203 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002).
Dr. Bruenn was evidently candid with Hassett about the problem, but in publishing his diary Hassett omitted the details. Years later, Dr. Bruenn, talking to Dr. James Halsted, Anna Roosevelt’s third husband, referred to a particularly upsetting phone call from ER to the president “a week or two before his death and talking forty-five minutes urging help for Yugoslavia. This resulted in rise of blood pressure of 50 points. His veins stood out on his forehead. Obviously the necessity to deny her request and the long telephone conversation was a major strain.” Dr. Halsted took notes on the conversation, March 8, 1967, and gave a copy to Geoffrey Ward, who passed them to Frank Freidel. See Freidel, Rendezvous with Destiny 604, 662.
168. Bruenn, “Clinical Notes” 590.
169. Merriman Smith, Thank You, Mr. President: A White House Notebook 186 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946).
170. Goodwin, No Ordinary Time 600.
171. Elizabeth Shoumatoff, FDR’s Unfinished Portrait 100 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990).
172. FDR, Undelivered Jefferson Day (April 13, 1945) Address, 13 Public Papers and Addresses 613–616.
173. Blum, 3 From the Morgenthau Diaries 416.
174. Shoumatoff, FDR’s Unfinished Portrait 115.
175. Ibid. 116. Also see Ward, Closest Companion 418.
176. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy 471.
177. Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy 442.
178. Quoted in Bernard Asbell, When F.D.R. Died 117 (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961).
179. Bill Livingstone, “The Day FDR Died,” Senior News (April 2006).
Bibliography
THE PAPERS OF Franklin and Eleanor, their children, and most members of the Roosevelt administration are at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York. So too are the Roosevelt, Delano, and Aspinwall family papers, including the collection of Sara Delano Roosevelt. Others’ (Farley, Ickes, Leahy, Hughes, Daniels) are at the Library of Congress. The Stimson and House papers are at Yale; the Alsop, Peabody, and Theodore Roosevelt collections at Harvard; and copies of the Wilson papers at Princeton. All of these I have consulted, plus the extensive oral history collection at Columbia. Whenever that material is used, I have provided a full citation in the text.
The bibliography below includes the books I have referred to. For the sake of brevity I have not included journal and magazine articles or newspaper coverage. These are cited fully in the Notes.
Abbott, Philip. The Exemplary Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990.
Acheson, Dean. Morning and Noon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
———. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department. New York: Norton, 1969.
Adamic, Louis. Dinner at the White House. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946.
Adams, Henry H. Harry Hopkins: A Biography. New York: Putnam, 1977.
Aga Rossi, Elena. Origins of the Bipolar World: Roosevelt’s Policy Toward Europe and the Soviet Union: A Reevaluation. Berkeley: Center for German and European Studies, University of California, 1993.
Agawa, Hiroyuki. The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy. Tokyo: Shincho Sha, 1966.
Aglion, Raoul. Roosevelt