Franklin And Winston Part 18

influenced by the preaching of Frank D. Ashburn, Peabody of Groton (New York, 1944), 181.

he would cite Peabody The New York Times, January 21, 1945.

The first time Churchill was introduced CCTBOM, 43.

As they stood together Ibid., 44.

"brief and unpropitious" Ibid., 43.

Four years later Ibid., 48.

would telephone Clementine Colville, Inner Circle, 16.

"Her judgment, given after" Ibid., 33.

"When her nerves were stretched" Ibid., 34.

A child of a broken home CCTBOM, 10.

"She had a most sensitive conscience" Ibid., 8. My details of the marriage are drawn from CCTBOM, WAC, and author interview with Lady Soames.

a worrier WAC, xviii.

"It is a great fault in me" Ibid.

Churchill's reply was full Ibid., 11.

"I have been able to think" Ibid., 13.

One of Roosevelt's most disturbing memories EROH, Session 10, 5. Other fires marred Roosevelt's childhood. The worst: A favorite aunt burned to death, and he watched the Groton stables razed. See Ward, Before the Trumpet, 117119.

"I was stupid last night" WAC, 69.

designing his siren suits CCTBOM, 402.

"fell romantically in love" Ibid., 351. The details of the Philip interlude are drawn from CCTBOM.

Clementine quoted a French saying Ibid.

"The Prime Minister does not 'dominate' " Diary of Dinner at 10 Downing Street, July 24, 1941, CEP.

Clementine, Mary wrote, "was not" WAC, xiv.

"Such discussions" Ibid.

"Papa once said to the President" Author interview with Lady Soames.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 320.

Eleanor's mother called her "Granny" EROH, Session 3, 1.

On November 22, 1903 Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 107.

"with your help" Ibid.

"Why me?" Ibid.

Sara was stunned Ibid., 109.

"the matriarch of the family" Anna Roosevelt Halsted, COH, 34.

"Mother had not" Ibid., 4.

Before midnight, Eleanor excused Joseph Alsop, FDR: A Centenary Remembrance (New York, 1982), 67.

"like 'dark velvet' " Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 221. The Lucy story is a familiar one in the Roosevelt annals. My version of its early days is based on Joseph Lash's Eleanor and Franklin, a sensitive but not sentimental portrait of the affair and its impact on Eleanor.

"She knew how to please" Ibid.

The truth emerged Ibid., 226.

"The bottom dropped out" Ibid., 220.

"Eleanor gave him a choice" Ibid., 226.

"There was a marked tendency" Author interview with John Kenneth Galbraith.

"I was going up the staircase" Author interview with Patrick Kinna.

"She shook everyone's hand" Author interview with Carol R. Lubin.

Eleanor must never discover Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 700.

Churchill seems never to have carried on There is another view of this. William Manchester cites "confidential information" in writing that Churchill "has committed but one act of infidelity, at Golfe-Juan, on the Mediterranean, with a divorced, t.i.tled Englishwoman whose seductive skills and s.e.xual experience far exceeded his." See Manchester, The Last Lion: Alone, 15. To my mind, as noted in the text, the most interesting issue is not s.e.x but secrecy.

On the Churchills' fortieth anniversary WAC, 549.

Gallipoli and polio changed their lives Joseph Lash is interesting on this point, writing that the Dardenelles and its fallout for Churchill "began to teach him the lesson of biding his time, of curbing his ego, lessons that Roosevelt learned when polio brought him low." See Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 60.

Feeling he should not Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, 328. I am grateful to Sir Martin Gilbert for this point.

Clementine tried to rea.s.sure him WAC, 163.

A portrait of Churchill painted by Sir William Orpen Author viewing of the portrait courtesy of-and in the company of-Winston S. Churchill.

"He is convinced his political career" Author interview with Winston S. Churchill.

worked with Bernard Baruch Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, 379.

"He took us on many weekends" Anna Roosevelt Halsted, COH, 33.

"He grinned at us" James Roosevelt and Sidney Shalett, Affectionately, FDR (New York, 1959), 143.

"He never said anything at all" EROH, Session 4, 3.

"He never, never gave up" Ibid.

"touch of triviality" Joseph Gides, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Portrait of a President (Garden City, N.Y., 1971), 214.

"Sometimes I wonder whether he would" Author interview with Mrs. Margaret Hendrick (Rollie Hambley).

thought Roosevelt had "the quality" Marquis Childs, COH, 109110.

"He's standing with his head" Ibid., 110.

"That was the Garbo in me" Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, 62.

"You know, Orson" Ibid.

Bohlen said that Roosevelt Bohlen, Witness to History, 210.

"a frustrated clergyman" James Roosevelt, Affectionately, FDR, 99.

the church's senior warden Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, 79. Of St. James's, Gunther noted, "The joke was that 'This is Roosevelt's church, once G.o.d's.' " (Ibid.) As James told the story James Roosevelt, Affectionately, FDR, 99101.

On Easter Sunday 1934 Ibid., 100101.

the Beat.i.tudes and the thirteenth chapter Memorandum for Mellett, FDRL; TIR, 346.

"Once, in talking to him" TIR, 346.

"Hitherto I had dutifully accepted" For Churchill's account of his early faith and later readings, see MEL, 113116.

This began a brief "violent" Ibid.

"I believe that man is" Montague Browne, Long Sunset, 204.

"an optimistic agnostic" Ibid.

"Whether you believe or disbelieve" Ibid. Of Churchill's faith, Moran wrote: "King and country, in that order, that's about all the religion Winston has. But it means a lot to him." (TSFS, 207) As he was retiring as prime minister WSC, VIII, 1123. I am grateful to Sir Martin Gilbert for leading me specifically to this pa.s.sage.

The three Americans closest to Roosevelt Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Age of Roosevelt: The Coming of the New Deal (Boston, 1958), 577.

Brendan Bracken . . . who was said-falsely-to be Churchill's illegitimate son William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 19321940 (Boston, 1988), 14.

"He behaved in public" Colville in Action This Day, ed. Wheeler-Bennett, 54.

What, Beaverbrook once asked himself BBK G/11/4, LBP.

"He was intensely pugnacious" Ibid.

"He enjoyed a conflict of ideas" WSC, VIII, 1364.

"He was a warrior" The Times (London), January 26, 1965.

something said or done was "malicious" Author interview with Lady Soames.

"He never sought to trample" The Times (London), January 26, 1965.

"Anger is a waste" Diary of Meeting, Charles Eade, July 24, 1941, CEP.

"Opinions differ" Ibid.

After becoming prime minister Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, 663.

Albert Einstein, Lawrence of Arabia Mary Soames, ed., A Churchill Family Alb.u.m (London, 1982).

Isaiah Berlin wrote weekly political reports TFOP, 471472.

John Wheeler-Bennett, the future biographer of George VI Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, Special Relations.h.i.+ps: America in Peace and War (London, 1975), 8990.

Roosevelt's interests were varied Tully, FDR: My Boss, 712.

Roosevelt tried to make money EROH, Session 7, 1.

"Not very successful" Ibid., 7.

a "hurricane-proof" house RAH, 378.

"He was a man" Burns, The Lion and the Fox, 90. Joseph Lash was amusing on Roosevelt's literary work. "He embarked on several writing projects: a biography of John Paul Jones ('a little volume' that would show that much of the published material about Jones was 'romance') and a history of the United States. He wrote five pages of the first and fourteen of the second." See Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 189.

"Roosevelt close to was" Walter Lippmann, COH, 220.

"Judge Roosevelt" Michael Beschloss, The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 19411945 (New York, 2002), 187.

In 1930, Felix Frankfurter Max Freedman, ed., Roosevelt and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 19281945 (Boston, 1967), 3738.

Sir David Pitblado, a Churchill private secretary Manchester, The Last Lion: Visions of Glory, 35.

John Gunther picked out Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, 69.

Musing about Churchill's flow of "brilliant ideas" Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, 383.

Roosevelt's interest in polling data Winston S. Churchill, His Father's Son: The Life of Randolph Churchill (London, 1996), 197.

"My father never wanted to switch off" Author interview with Lady Soames.

"Great fellow, that Churchill" Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, 383.