Harry Truman actually said...

"In accepting your resignation, I desire to express my appreciation of the patriotic services which you have rendered to your country during the war, and during the days when we were preparing for the ..."

"I am accepting the resignation of Miss Perkins as Secretary of Labor, and am appointing Judge Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington to be Secretary of Labor."

"I should like to make your resignation effective July 1, 1945."

"I don't know a thing about his death more than you do--only what I have seen in the papers."