"a silence" Churchill, The Grand Alliance, 605.

The prime minister headed for the door Churchill, The Grand Alliance, 605.

"We shall declare war on j.a.pan" CWP, III, 1577.

Winant chased after him Ibid.

Churchill paused Ibid.

"Mr. President, . . . what's this about j.a.pan?" Churchill, The Grand Alliance, 605.

"This certainly simplifies things" Ibid.

She remembered saying good-bye TIR, 232233.

"waited till Franklin was alone" Ibid., 233.

"I went back to work" Ibid.

Handling the telephone himself RAH, 431432.

wearing an old sweater James Roosevelt, Affectionately, FDR, 327.

directing troop movements with General George Marshall RAH, 432.

"My G.o.d, there's another wave" Tully, FDR: My Boss, 255.

"Many of the moves required" RAH, 432.

At about five in the afternoon Tully, FDR: My Boss, 256.

There was another edit James Roosevelt, Affectionately, FDR, 328.

Eleanor returned to the center of action TIR, 233.

"No American will think it wrong" Churchill, The Grand Alliance, 606.

He felt his obligations Ibid., 605.

He wrote telegrams after midnight CWP, III, 1580.

"He was quite naturally" Ibid., 1579.

"The United States and Britain were now" Ibid.

navy cape Forrest Davis and Ernest K. Lindley, How War Came (New York, 1942), 319.

Robert Sherwood and Sam Rosenman left the White House after dark Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, 309310.

The bright lamp that usually lit the White House Ibid., 310.

"I wonder how long" Ibid.

"I don't know" Ibid.

On Tuesday, in a fireside chat Buhite and Levy, eds., FDR's Fireside Chats, 198205.

Roosevelt drafted, but did not send C & R, I, 285.

did raise questions Ibid., 284.

"Today all of us" Ibid., 283.

"Now that we are as you say" Ibid., 283284.

"I understand only too well" Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 898.

"I don't see" Ibid., 895.

"the American Century" Life, February 17, 1941.

"Delighted to have you here" C & R, I, 286.

"At one of our meetings" Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman, eds., War Diaries, 19391945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke (Berkeley, Calif., 2001), 209.

CHAPTER 5: A COUPLE OF EMPERORS.

"I have read two books" WAC, 461.

The novels may have fanned Author readings of F. Britten Austin, Forty Centuries Look Down, and C. S. Forester, Brown on Resolution.

"He is a different man" TSFS, 910.

flew from Hampton Roads WSC, VII, 23. Burns, The Soldier of Freedom, 175190, is also good on the Christmas visit.

cabled Roosevelt C & R, I, 292.

the dusk TSFS, 11.

"It was very sweet of him" Author interview with Patrick Kinna.

"honoured and touched" Thompson, I Was Churchill's Shadow, 79.

"swept in like" Time, January 5, 1942.

worried Churchill RAH, 445. The British, Sherwood wrote, "suspected that extraordinary events in the Pacific might . . . be met with plans for all-out American effort against j.a.pan, leaving the British and Russians to handle the German enemy in Europe."

"The principle of Germany first" Ibid., 446.

three long papers laying out his vision Churchill, The Grand Alliance, 645.

North Africa and the Middle East Ibid., 651.

must build naval strength Ibid., 653654.

Germany would be bombed Ibid., 649.

there would be Anglo-American landings Ibid., 656.

"three or four" Ibid., 657.

"It must be remembered" Ibid., 649.

"As we both, by need" Ibid., 663.

The prime minister's hours kept Roosevelt up Author interview with George Elsey.

"We had to remember" EROH, Session 16, 2.

"Never had the staid butlers" Reilly and Sloc.u.m, Reilly of the White House, 125.

Grace Tully looked out Tully, FDR: My Boss, 300.

Lord Chandos once had cold lobster Lyttleton, Memoirs, 308.

changing from his siren suit The New York Times, December 24, 1941.

wire basket of papers and a silver thermos of water Details of office and dress drawn from photograph of press conference, FDRL, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

"a healthy pink tinge" The New York Times, December 24, 1941.

"I would like to get" Complete Presidential Press Conferences, December 23, 1941, XVIII, 382.

gray pinstripes and smoking a cigarette The New York Times, December 24, 1941.

"He is quite willing to take on a conference" Complete Presidential Press Conferences, December 23, 1941, XVIII, 383.

"Two great statesmen-showmen" Washington Star, December 24, 1941.

"I wish you would just stand" Complete Presidential Press Conferences, December 23, 1941, XVIII, 386.

Churchill mounted his chair Washington Star, December 24, 1941.

"It was terribly exciting" Conversation between Curtis Roosevelt and Alistair Cooke, New York City, October 20, 1993, Acc#95-03, FDRL.

"Go ahead and shoot" Complete Presidential Press Conferences, December 23, 1941, XVIII, 386392.

To that point The Washington Post, December 24, 1941.

"If we manage it well" Complete Presidential Press Conferences, December 23, 1941, XVIII, 388.

"The smiling President looked like" Newsweek, January 5, 1942; The New York Times, December 24, 1941.

They both understood the significance For essays touching on Roosevelt's and Churchill's grasp of what a later generation would call "image making," see William E. Leuchtenburg, The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy (New York, 1995), 134, and D. J. Wenden, "Churchill, Radio, and Cinema," in Churchill, eds. Blake and Louis, 215239.

a.s.sembled for c.o.c.ktails CWP, III, 1675.

"children's hour" Freidel, Launching the New Deal, 281.

"At c.o.c.ktail time everything was" Author interview with Lady Soames.

not a consistent recipe Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, 150. Grace Tully is also amusing on this topic. See Tully, FDR: My Boss, 2225.

"Churchill could not abide" Conversation between Curtis Roosevelt and Alistair Cooke, October 20, 1993, New York City, Acc# 95-03, 18, FDRL.

"The problem in this country" Ibid.

"It was not the amount" Reilly and Sloc.u.m, Reilly of the White House, 125.

one of the few moments Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, 95.

"How about another sippy?" Tully, FDR: My Boss, 24.

"He needed an audience" Author interview with George Elsey.

"Mrs. Roosevelt was very afraid" Author interview with Trude Lash.

At times, Roosevelt conducted Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, 152153.

"Drinking to excess is a type" TIR, 312.

"Mrs. Roosevelt was most abstemious" Author interview with Trude Lash.

whiskey sours were on offer CWP, III, 1675.

Churchill was delayed Ibid.

Percy Chubb, the husband of a grandniece Ibid.

"I have not had a minute" WAC, 461.

At dinner, Roosevelt and Churchill CWP, III, 1675.