the relish she took in retelling TIR, 296.

"Mr. Churchill insisted" Ibid., 296297.

a swim and picnic at Val-Kill CC, 229.

"I didn't know how to manage" Author interview with Lady Soames.

Churchill, who wore CC, 229.

"He is a strange looking little man" Ibid.

"took away the impression" Ibid., 230.

they decided that Kimball, Forged in War, 220221; also see WSC, VII, 470471.

typewritten on Citadel FRUS, Second Washington and First Quebec, 1117.

Churchill had been worried Kimball, Forged in War, 220.

Mary found her "looking better" CCTBOM, 446.

"My mother could be" Author interview with Lady Soames.

"He took the liberty" Ibid.

if Roosevelt and Churchill would sign Author interview with George Elsey.

"there was always a good deal" Wilson Brown Memoir, 161, FDRL.

"The problems facing" Ibid., 161162.

Churchill took a sip of iced water Dilks, ed., The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 554555.

A U.S. operation in the Aleutians Author interview with George Elsey.

"One Lake" Kimball, Forged in War, 221.

thought he was being shut out Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, 225.

"I hope Lady Warden" C & R, II, 432.

The Churchill party decamped CCTBOM, 447.

"We lived in comfortable log houses" Martin, Downing Street: The War Years, 13.

"W.S.C. in terrific form" Dilks, ed., The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 556.

"The President had wanted" Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring: The Second World War (Boston, 1951), 120.

"looking well, but tired" CC, 231.

Hopkins had collapsed again RAH, 750.

"Mr. [Churchill] didn't feel well" CC, 232233.

prescribing three months of rest Ibid., 233.

Cadogan spent a day "running between" Dilks, ed., The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 559.

With Mary along, Suckley showed them CC, 233.

Clementine later took a tumble CCTBOM, 447448.

One night, the names of Author interview with Lady Soames.

using movies in the evenings CC, 234.

"I'm nearly dead" Frances Perkins, OH, 640 FDRL.

At two-thirty one afternoon CC, 235.

Roosevelt "wants the ceremony" TSFS, 124.

"Twice in my lifetime" James, ed., Complete Speeches of Winston Churchill, VII, 68236824.

"Winston enjoyed himself" Dilks, ed., The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 559560.

Churchill had spoken "on his favorite theme" Henry A. Wallace Diary, May 22, 1943, 31.

"I said bluntly" Ibid.

"Churchill had had quite a bit of whisky" Ibid.

"I suggested it might be a good plan" Ibid., 32.

"Churchill did not like this" Ibid.

"He asked me to use" Churchill, Closing the Ring, 137.

"All I want is compliance" Kay Halle Papers, Box 10, 24.

America's combat munitions Cohen in Grand Strategies in War and Peace, ed. Kennedy, 51.

The day at Hyde Park CCTBOM, 448.

"he loved her more and more" Ibid.

a small supper CC, 237238.

Roosevelt toasted the Churchills CCTBOM, 448.

At about ten-twenty CC, 238239.

"G.o.d bless you" Ibid.

"My dear Franklin" C & R, II, 447.

"Delighted you are all" Ibid., 454.

"a first very definite" CC, 238.

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"No lover" David Dimbleby and David Reynolds, An Ocean Apart: The Relationship Between Britain and America in the Twentieth Century (New York, 1988), 135.

"By the time we got to" Sir Ian Jacob interview, Newton Collection, FDRL.

ill with a cold and sore throat WAC, 485; WSC, VII, 552.

"it will be grand" C & R, II, 603.

worries about security Churchill, Closing the Ring, 327.

"meeting place is known to enemy" C & R, II, 601.

"See St. John" Ibid., 604.

"taking too much upon myself" Churchill, Closing the Ring, 327.

"brushed all objections aside" Ibid.

Knowing Churchill was upset WAC, 486.

She had never met Roosevelt Sarah Churchill, A Thread in the Tapestry (New York, 1966), 62.

One day in Cairo, Churchill said Ibid., 6263.

"Let us make it" Churchill, Closing the Ring, 340.

"Harry had arranged" John Boettiger Diary of Cairo and Tehran, November 25, 1943, 89, FDRL.

Churchill threw himself Churchill, Closing the Ring, 341.

"had calculated" Ibid.

In a toast to Churchill FRUS, Conference at Cairo and Tehran, 1943, 299.

Churchill answered Churchill, Closing the Ring, 341.

"in these crucial times" John Boettiger Diary of Cairo and Tehran, November 25, 1943, 89, FDRL.

"deep feeling" Ibid.

"Upon this happy note" Ibid.

Sarah had a full card Churchill, Closing the Ring, 341.

"It is an enormous satisfaction" Diary of FDR, November 26, 1943, Handwritten Notes of Cairo-Tehran, FDRL.

"For a couple of hours" Churchill, Closing the Ring, 341.

flew into the Iranian capital about forty-five minutes Sarah Churchill, A Thread in the Tapestry, 64.

"spine-chilling" Ibid. Also see Churchill, Closing the Ring, 342.

"Anyone could have shot" Sarah Churchill, A Thread in the Tapestry, 64.

"I grinned at the crowd" Churchill, Closing the Ring, 343.

ordered Inspector Thompson Thompson, I Was Churchill's Shadow, 122.

"a beautiful Iranian Sunday" Bohlen, Witness to History, 139.

"By an unfortunate coincidence" WAC, 489.

Churchill had wanted WSC, VII, 568; Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, 262265.

Churchill requested time Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, 265.

"The President had reason to suspect" Ibid.

Word reached Harriman Ibid.

"PM has bad throat" Danchev and Todman, eds., War Diaries: Alanbrooke, 482.

"Grumbling but whimsical" Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, 265.

"I continued" Churchill, Closing the Ring, 344.

At three a short distance away Bohlen, Witness to History, 139. There are different accounts of the shifting and fluid conversations among the princ.i.p.als at Cairo-Teheran. My account is distilled from Bohlen, Witness to History, 134154; Burns, The Soldier of Freedom, 406417; Churchill, Closing the Ring, 342407; FRUS, Cairo and Tehran, 482605; Freidel, A Rendezvous with Destiny, 477493; Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, 256283; RAH, 775799; Keith Sainsbury, The Turning Point (New York, 1985); WSC, VII, 556593; and the other sources cited below.

In a khaki tunic Bohlen, Witness to History, 139.