The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (99 page)

excessive with compliments
: Blair, Clay,
The Forgotten War,
p. 35.

Ridgway and “Lightning” Joe Collins
: Blair, Clay,
The Forgotten War,
p. 35.

and no sympathy for himself
: author interview with Bill McCaffrey.

Ned the Anointed
: Appleman, Roy,
Escaping the Trap,
p. 45.

to designate one’s standing with the general
: Leary, William (editor),
MacArthur and the American Century,
p. 241.

“instinctive knack of ingratiation”
: Coleman, J. D.,
Wonju,
p. 93.

you simply could not speak to a superior that way
: author interview with Bill McCaffrey.

“on a desert island”
: Blair, Clay, interview with John Chiles, U.S. Army War College.

you had to play to his entire team
: author interview with Bill McCaffrey.

“Is this Almond speaking”
: Mike Michaelis oral history at U.S. Army War College; author interview with Layton Tyner.

albeit in a losing war
: author interview with Layton Tyner.

“we will die fighting together”
: Heefner, Wilson,
Patton’s Bulldog,
p. 185; author interview with Layton Tyner; Hastings, Max,
The Korean War,
p. 84.

“a defeated Confederate General”
: Goulden, Joseph,
Korea,
p. 201; Lem Shepherd, oral history at Marine Corps History Archive and oral history at Columbia University.

“August is the month of victory”
: Shen Zhihua, Cold War International History Project, Winter 2003, Spring 2004.

CHAPTER
12

“direct lineal descendant of FDR”
: Smith, Richard Norton,
Thomas Dewey and His Times,
p. 35.

“It is a crusade”
: Oshinsky, David,
A Conspiracy So Immense,
pp. 49–50.

“now a Republican country”
: Ibid., p. 53.

then a traditionally liberal
: Ibid., p. 53.

“horses with blinders on”
: Miller, Merle,
Plain Speaking,
p. 164.

to $6 or $7 billion a year
: Ferrell, Robert (editor),
Off the Record,
p. 133.

hurtling over the wires
: Collins, Lawton,
War in Peacetime,
p. 39.

“no boats, no votes”
: Christensen, Thomas,
Useful Adversaries,
p. 39.

the rush to demobilize
: Heinl, Robert,
Victory at High Tide,
p. 4.

“it was a rout”
: Ibid., p. 4.

“out of a paper bag”
: Bradley, Omar, with Blair, Clay,
A General’s Life,
p. 474.

“kill a horse”
: McCullough, David,
Truman,
p. 738.

as so many of our top strategists
: Myers, Robert,
Korea in the Cross Currents,
p. 79.

“Bring the boys home”
: Isaacson, Walter, and Thomas, Evan,
The Wise Men,
p. 338.

had greatly angered MacArthur
: Rovere, Richard, and Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.,
The General and the President,
p. 120.

“from his command on April 11, 1951”
: Acheson, Dean,
Present at the Creation,
pp. 126–127.

“on behalf of the big bankers”
: Cumings, Bruce,
The Origins of the Korean War, Vol. II,
p. 45.

“pearls before swine”
: Isaacson, Walter, and Thomas, Evan,
The Wise Men,
p. 465.

“‘You stand for everything that has been wrong for America for years’”
: Chute, David,
The Great Fear,
pp. 42–43.

“You owe it to Truman”
: Isaacson, Walter, and Thomas, Evan,
The Wise Men,
p. 547.

“that little fellow across the street”
: Halberstam, David,
The Best and the Brightest
, p. 332; author interview with John Carter Vincent.

“a constituency of one”
: Isaacson, Walter, and Thomas, Evan,
The Wise Men,
p. 464.

“than they have seen fit to use”
: McLellan, David S.,
Dean Acheson: The State Department Years,
p. 383.

“Chiang going out”
: Isaacson, Walter, and Thomas, Evan,
The Wise Men,
p. 475.

“and hang on to our friends”
: Davis, Nuell Pharr,
Lawrence and Oppenheimer,
p. 294.

“worldlier English prototype”
: Cooke, Alistair,
A Generation on Trial,
pp. 107–108.

“come to the brink, like Chambers”
: Halberstam, David, author interview with Murray Kempton,
The Fifties,
p. 13.

too many glitches in Hiss’s story
: author interview with Homer Bigart,
New York Times
.

“and could vouch for them absolutely”
: Weinstein, Allen,
Perjury,
p. 37.

“what I have to do”
: Isaacson, Walter, and Thomas, Evan,
The Wise Men,
p. 491.

spoiling for a fight
: author interview with Lucius Battle.

Average Americans would have understood that
: author interview with James Reston for
The Best and the Brightest
.

“a tremendous and totally unnecessary gift”:
Goldman, Eric,
The Crucial Decade,
pp. 134–135.

“I hope they hang him”
: Donovan, Robert,
Tumultuous Years,
p. 133.

“Traitors in the high councils”
: Goldman, Eric,
The Crucial Decade
, pp. 134–135.

“a dead cat around his neck”
: Ibid., p. 134.

CHAPTER
13

“when it came to the final responsible”
: Gellman, Barton,
Contending with Kennan,
p. 14.

“its preservation was tremendous”
: Foot, Rosemary,
The Wrong War,
p. 60.

“even I don’t make her nervous”
: Isaacson, Walter, and Thomas, Evan,
The Wise Men,
p. 150.

“My voice now carried”
: Kennan, George,
Memoirs 1925
–
1950,
pp. 294–295.

“a ceremonial Chinese bow and a polite giggle”
: Isaacson, Walter, and Thomas, Evan,
The Wise Men,
p. 477.

“and borders on recklessness”
: Foot, Rosemary,
The Wrong War,
p. 39.

“than with the Secretary of Defense”
: Bradley, Omar, with Blair, Clay,
A General’s Life,
p. 519.

“but don’t put any figure in the report”
: Isaacson, Walter, and Thomas, Evan,
The Wise Man,
p. 499.

“scaring me out of my shoes”
: Acheson, Dean,
Present at the Creation,
p. 373.

at Princeton, “saved us”
: Isaacson, Walter, and Thomas, Evan,
The Wise Men,
p. 504.

CHAPTER
14

“just mild about Harry”
: McCullough, David,
Truman,
p. 493.

“And poor people of the United States”
: Ibid., p. 320.

not one of these fancy tractors
: Abels, Jules,
Out of the Jaws of Victory,
p. 182.

“clear thinking and forceful”
: Bradley, Omar, with Blair, Clay,
A General’s Life,
p. 444.

the pages of Sinclair Lewis
: McCullough, David,
Truman,
pp. 324–325.

“but did not know what they were getting”
: Phillips, Cabell,
The Truman Presidency,
p. 47.

“of democracy if it works”
: McCullough, David,
Truman,
p. 525.

“Ajax of the Ozarks”
: Abels, Jules,
Out of the Jaws of Victory,
p. 95.

“Truman, Harry Truman”
: Goldman, Eric,
The Crucial Decade
, p. 83.

“a dead Missouri mule”
: Ibid., p. 19.

“neck-and-neck race”
: Manchester, William,
The Glory and the Dream,
p. 465.

“from rocking the boat”
: Abels, Jules,
Out of the Jaws of Victory,
p. 150.

“keep this table vacant”
: Ibid., pp. 12–13.

“as a Washington lawyer and national”
: McFarland, Keith D., and Roll, David L.,
Louis Johnson and the Arming of America,
p. 133.

got the Defense portfolio
: Ibid., pp. 137–139.

“I’ll give ’em hell”
: Donovan, Robert,
Tumultuous Years,
p. 16.

“with them and not at them”
: McCullough, David,
Truman,
p. 675.

“smug, arrogant, and supercilious”
: Abels, Jules,
Out of the Jaws of Victory,
p. 141.

“Brownell lamented years later”
: author interview with Herbert Brownell for
The Fifties
.

“I thought I was”:
Smith, Richard Norton,
Thomas Dewey and His Times,
p. 26.

“looking under beds”
: Ibid., p. 507.

“obstinately laboring president”
: Abels, Jules,
Out of the Jaws of Victory,
p. 180.

“let’s get on with the job”
: Phillips, Cabell,
The Truman Presidency,
pp. 243–244.

why Truman had won
: McCullough, David,
Truman,
p. 712.

CHAPTER
15

not augur well for the future
:
Life
magazine, December 20, 1948.

as Omar Bradley wrote
: Bradley, Omar, with Blair, Clay,
A General’s Life,
p. 549.

to stay clear of him
: Goulden, Joseph,
Korea,
p. 155; Donovan, Robert,
Tumultuous Years,
pp. 260–262.

“stop kicking him around”
: Blair, Clay,
The Forgotten War,
pp. 184–185.

“the communists in China”
: Donovan, Robert,
Tumultuous Years,
p. 261.

“of willpower and courage”
: author interview with Lieutenant General (Ret.) Ed Rowny; Toland interview with Rowny, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.

might exceed battle
: Ridgway, Matthew B.,
The Korean War,
p. 36.

“great national asset”
: Blair, Clay,
The Forgotten War,
pp. 188–189.

“and its position in the U.N.”
: Goulden, Joseph,
Korea,
pp. 161–162.

“worst appointment Truman ever”
: McCullough, David,
Truman,
p. 741.

“does away with the Navy”
: Heinl, Robert,
Victory at High Tide,
pp. 6–7.

“one mental case with another”
: Bradley, Omar, with Blair, Clay,
A General’s Life,
p. 503.

“I can’t and he’s one of the”
: Ferrell, Robert (editor),
Off the Record,
p. 189.