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On the recordJuly 17, 1947
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.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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

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