Harry Truman actually said...

I had hoped that conditions would permit you to continue longer in your present post of responsibility.

Letter Accepting Resignation of Clinton P. Anderson as Secretary of Agriculture.

05/09/1948

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I had made no such plan, that's the best way to put it.

I have received no such letter.

No I am not, and there has been no such support.

General Marshall will make the comment on that when he gets home.