Harry Truman actually said...

Your letter of this date leaves me no choice but to accept your resignation as Secretary of War, effective at the close of business July twenty-fourth.

Context

Letter Accepting Resignation of Robert P. Patterson as Secretary of War.

07/17/1947

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