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365 Abbreviations FDRL Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York FRUS U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States (Washington , D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Of¤ce, 1974, 1979), cited by year and volume HSTL Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum & Library, Independence, Missouri LC Library of Congress NARA National Archives & Records Administration NYT New York Times OF Of¤cial File, FDRL or Of¤ce File, HSTL PPF President’s Personal File PP HST Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1945–53 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Of¤ce, 1961–1966), cited by year PSF President’s Secretary’s File RG Record Group (in NARA) Introduction 1. Margaret Truman, Harry S. Truman (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1973), 480. 2. Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1969), 374. 3. “unsuited,” Clark Clifford, Counsel to the President (New York: Random House, 1991), 280; “possibly the worst appointment,” David McCullough, Truman (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), 741. 4. Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–45 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979); David Reynolds, From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt’s America and the Origins of the Second World War (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001). 5. Arnold A. Offner, Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945–1953 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002), xii (Burns’s views paraphrased ). See James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (New York: Harcourt , Brace and Company, 1956). notes 366 6. Clay Blair, The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950–1953 (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1987); Offner, Another Such Victory. 7. McCullough, Truman; Melvyn P. Lef¶er, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992); Alonzo L. Hamby, Man of the People: A Life of Harry Truman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). 1. Bedford Blood 1. James A. Bell, “Defense Secretary Louis Johnson,” The American Mercury, June 1950, 647; James M. Callahan, History of West Virginia, Old and New (Chicago: American Historical Society, 1923), III: 123. 2. Lula Jeter Parker, The History of Bedford County, Virginia (Bedford, Va.: The Bedford Democrat, 1954), 9, 104. 3. Philip A. Bruce, Lyon G. Tyler, and Richard L. Morton, History of Virginia (Chicago : American Historical Society, 1924), I: 185; R. H. Early, Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches (Lynchburg, Va.: J. P. Bell Company, 1927), 452; “The Leftwich Historical Association, Inc.,” http://www.leftwich.org; Hamilton Eckenrode, Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution (Richmond: State Library and Archives, 1912), I: 265; http:// www.leftwich.org/family/I795.html. 4. “The Leftwich Historical Association, Inc.”; Walter Lee Hopkins, LeftwichTurner Families of Virginia and Their Connections (Richmond, Va.: J. W. Fergusson, 1931), 66, 89. 5. Bedford County Families and History, compiled from Henry Hardesty’s Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia (1883), edited, indexed, and available from Jim Presgraves , Bookworm & Silver¤sh, Wytheville, Virginia; Peter Viemiester, ed., Personal Histories of Bedford County (1985), Bedford City/County Museum, Genealogy Library, Bedford Library, Bedford, Virginia, 16; Robert J. Driver Jr., 58th Virginia Infantry (Lynchburg: H. E. Howard, 1990), 17, 22, 24, 27, 31, 33, 36, 62–63, 89; Gordon C. Rhea, The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7–12, 1864 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997), 232–252; Eckenrode, Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution, II: 18. 6. Bedford County land records in Bedford County Clerk’s Of¤ce; “Personal Histories of Bedford County,” 16; Early, Campbell Chronicles, 96. 7. Jack Alexander, “Stormy New Boss of the Pentagon,” Saturday Evening Post, July 30, 1949, 67–68; “Louis Johnson Honored,” Norfolk and Western Magazine, July 1937, 280. 8. William C. Sponaugle, “Biographies of Southwestern Virginians,” Vertical File Biography, Virginia Room, Roanoke Public Library; E. B. Jacobs, History of Roanoke City and Norfolk Western Railroad Company (Roanoke, Va.: Stone Printers, 1912), 209. 9. Bruce, History of Virginia, V: 474; Widow’s Service Pension, War of 1812, for Lockey (Leftwich) Johnson of Leesville, Virginia, Surname File Copy, Bedford City/ County Museum; Bedford County Clerk’s Of¤ce Land Records, Book 26, Page 306 of Grantee Records and Book 27, Page 247 of Grantee Records. 10. Marshall Wing¤eld, Pioneer Families of Franklin County, Virginia (Berryville, Va.: Chesapeake Book Company, 1964), 201, 203; Hopkins, Leftwich-Turner Families and Their Connections, 88. 11. Interview with Mrs. Virginia Johnson, Roanoke, Virginia, July 16, 1977. 12. Wing...