"deeply angered" Ibid.

"had seen the twinkle" John Boettiger Diary of Cairo and Teheran, November 30, 1943, 108, FDRL.

sailed into the conversation Churchill, Closing the Ring, 374.

"As usual, it seems" Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It, 189.

only forty-nine thousand German officers Churchill, Closing the Ring, 374.

"By this he hoped" Ibid.

"Eden also made signs" Ibid.

spotted lurking by the door Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It, 186. "I had not been invited, but during the first course one of the Russian secret service men standing in back of Stalin noticed me at a side entrance, and he leaned over and whispered to Stalin . . . ," Elliott Roosevelt wrote. "With gestures, he made it quite clear that he wanted me to join the party; an interpreter doubled his invitation in English, explaining that the Marshal said graciously that he had not realized his secretary had not invited me." So Elliott may not have quite crashed the party, but he does seem to have mightily angled for his late-breaking invitation.

deep into the champagne Ibid., 190.

"made a speech" Churchill, Closing the Ring, 374.

"intrusion" Ibid.

Churchill marched into another room Ibid.

"I had not been there" Ibid.

"Joe teased the P.M." Freidel, A Rendezvous with Destiny, 485.

"The fact that" Churchill, Closing the Ring, 375.

"I began by" Ibid., 376377.

were pressing an amphibious operation Ibid., 377.

"it was vital" Ibid.

"had urged" Ibid., 378.

With Churchill, Stalin was blunt Ibid., 379380.

Roosevelt read the Allied recommendations aloud Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, 274.

"The conferences have been going well" Diary of FDR, December 1, 1943, Handwritten Notes of Cairo and Tehran, FDRL.

It was Churchill's sixty-ninth birthday Churchill, Closing the Ring, 375.

"Hitherto we had" Ibid., 384.

"a never-to-be-forgotten party" Sarah Churchill, A Thread in the Tapestry, 65.

"The table was set" Bohlen, Witness to History, 149.

"Together we controlled" Churchill, Closing the Ring, 384385.

Churchill and Roosevelt wore black tie Detail drawn from photographs of the dinner, FDRL.

To Sarah, Stalin was Sarah Churchill, A Thread in the Tapestry, 65.

"When the President" Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, 278.

"had devoted his entire life" FRUS, Cairo and Tehran, 583.

"Stalin the Great" Ibid.

Roosevelt then spoke of his "long admiration" Ibid.

Stalin asked if he might John Boettiger Diary of Cairo and Tehran, November 30, 1943, 111, FDRL.

"I want to tell you" Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, 277.

worried he had not truly broken through Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, 8385.

"You know, the Russians" Ibid., 83.

"I thought it over all night" Ibid., 84.

"On my way" Ibid.

"Winston, I hope you" Ibid.

"shifted his cigar" Ibid.

"I began almost as soon" Ibid.

"Then I said" Ibid.

"As soon as I" Ibid.

"I kept it up" Ibid. Also see Alldritt, The Greatest of Friends, 176.

"I asked someone" Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, 17.

"behaved very decently" Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, 84.

"My father was awfully wounded" Author interview with Lady Soames.

"My father was very hurt, I think" Ibid.

Roosevelt told Eisenhower Burns, The Soldier of Freedom, 416.

Churchill was suffering from pneumonia WSC, VII, 604.

could not remember ever feeling Churchill, Closing the Ring, 450.

Clementine accepted his failure CCTBOM, 457.

"I never think of after the war" CCTBOM, 461.

At three o'clock on Christmas Eve afternoon CC, 263.

"The room was a mess" Ibid.

Eleanor, Anna, and Trude Lash tried to make themselves comfortable Ibid.

fair but cold day The New York Times, December 24, 1943, and December 25, 1943.

"That this is truly a world war" Buhite and Levy, eds. FDR's Fireside Chats, 273274.

"Of course, as you all know" Ibid., 275.

"Within three days" Ibid., 276.

"The war is now reaching the stage" Ibid., 280.

"To use an American and somewhat ungrammatical colloquialism" Ibid., 277278. Also see Burns, The Soldier of Freedom, 416417.

CHAPTER 10: THE HOUR WAS NOW STRIKING.

"It's been a wonderful year" Dilks, ed., The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 592.

a debacle in France would exact a high price Stephen E. Ambrose, "D Day Fails" in What If? ed. Cowley, 346347.

"Winston has developed a tendency" Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, 407.

One evening during the 19431944 holidays TFOP, 461.

"feeling a little miserably" CC, 264.

By December 30 Ibid., 266.

At eleven-thirty on New Year's Eve Ibid., 267.

"Mrs. R. . . . ," Daisy said Ibid.

"Auld Lang Syne" Ibid.

Clementine called the villa CCTBOM, 456.

"He is gaining strength" Ibid., 457.

"bad temper day!" Ibid.

"I have now got home" C & R, II, 668.

"The P.M. is back" Pamela Churchill to Averell and Kathleen Harriman, February 19, 1944, PHP.

"Now thanked we all" WAC, 495.

He had married Louise Macy TIR, 257. Also see CC, 170.

Hopkins had three sons by a first marriage Henry H. Adams, Harry Hopkins: A Biography (New York, 1977), 36; 4445.

"It seemed to me very hard" TIR, 257.

"She is pretty" CC, 224225. Daisy did once acknowledge she was being "catty" about Louise. (Ibid., 224) the Hopkinses were about RAH, 752.

Mrs. Hopkins had changed Eleanor's seating plan Author interview with Trude Lash.

Louise and Diana moved TIR, 317.

so sick that he could not work RAH, 804809.

"You must know I am not" Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy: The Second World War (Boston, 1953), 161. There is a mystery here. Churchill repeats the exact paragraph about Hopkins's decline in two volumes of the war memoirs: first on 82 of Closing the Ring, about First Quebec, and second on 161 of Triumph and Tragedy. Given other evidence-including a 1944 letter from Clementine to Mary about Hopkins's apparent fall from favor at Second Quebec-my guess is that Churchill meant to attach the sentiment and scene to 1944, not to 1943.

Nothing was worse RAH, 805.

"I am terribly" Ibid.

"Dear Harry" C & R, II, 726.

a lettered scroll of lines RAH, 806. Robert Hopkins graciously showed me the scroll dedicated to his brother's memory; the gift from Churchill now hangs in Mr. Hopkins's house in Washington.

"Wasn't it sad" Pamela Churchill to Averell Harriman, February 15, 1944, PHP.

Anna Roosevelt moved into TIR, 319. Doris Kearns Goodwin is interesting on the FDR-Anna relationship. See, for instance, Goodwin, No Ordinary Time, 488491.

She had seen the mask fall John Boettiger, A Love in Shadow (New York, 1978), 9495.

Roosevelt again needed her help Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 699700.

A Roper poll Freidel, A Rendezvous with Destiny, 495.

In a February election TFOP, 474. The candidate was Lord Hartington, who had married Joseph Kennedy's daughter Kathleen.