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...world was a sizable fact. He could have become the Henry Cabot Lodge of 1945, but he did not. Like the U.S., he had learned the hard way: the deadly march of worldwide war had shown him what was wrong with isolationism. It had not been a sudden change: like the U.S., he had come a long, slow way since...
...have had all I can take 'for a while. . . . I've been immersed in it too long. . . . My mind is confused. . . . All of a sudden it seemed to me that if I heard one more shot or saw one more dead man, I would...
...Rayburn had just poured the Vice President a drink of bourbon and tap water when there was a call from the White House. Steve Early was on the wire. As he listened, Harry Truman's face turned pale. He left abruptly, saying not a word. But his sudden action spoke loudly enough. Every man in that room knew that Franklin Roosevelt's health had been swiftly declining. Said Sam Rayburn before the Vice President got to the door: "We'll all stand by you, Harry...
...more than a month, he had had a secret service guard in case of the emergency that had now come. Speeding down Pennsylvania Avenue in a White House car, Harry Truman, hard-working product of small-town Missouri, had little time to think of the sudden turn of fate. He had dreaded the burden that might be laid on him. Now it was here...
...ones they had frequently berated, including the "again and again and again" anti-war pledge.) The Christian Science Monitor, to which death is a taboo subject, ran an eight-column banner: "TRUMAN PLEDGES U.S. TO ROOSEVELT POLICY." Only in the second paragraph was there a fleeting reference to "the sudden, unwarned passing of Mr. Roosevelt." Cerebral hemorrhage was not mentioned, but the Monitor spoke guardedly of "what had happened in the 'Little White House' in Warm Springs, Ga." The New-Dealing New York Post headed its Army-Navy casualty list...