Footnote 12-57: Memo, Clark Clifford for President, 19 Nov 47; ibid., 17 Aug 48, sub: The 1948 Campaign; both in Truman Library. See also Cabell B. Phillips, The Truman Presidency (New York: Macmillan, 1966), pp. 198-99, and McCoy and Ruetten, Quest and Response, ch. VI.[(Back)]
Footnote 12-58: Interv, Nichols with Ewing.[(Back)]
Footnote 12-59: Quoted in Memo, Leva for SecDef, 15 Jul 48, D54-1-3, SecDef files.[(Back)]
Footnote 12-60: Quoted in Truman, Memoirs, II:183; see also Interv, Nichols with Truman, and Millis, Forrestal Diaries, p. 458.[(Back)]
Footnote 12-61: Interv, Nichols with Ewing.[(Back)]
Footnote 12-62: Memo, Niles for Clifford, 12 May 48; Memo, Clifford for SecDef, 13 May 48, Nash Collection, Truman Library.[(Back)]
Footnote 12-63: Interv, Nichols with Ewing.[(Back)]
Footnote 12-64: Nichols, Breakthrough on the Color Front, p. 86.[(Back)]
Footnote 12-65: Ltr, Donald S. Dawson, Admin Asst to the President, to SecDef, 26 Jul 48. The executive order on equal opportunity for federal employees was also issued on 26 July.[(Back)]
Footnote 12-66: Columbia University Oral Hist Interv with Wilkins.[(Back)]