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On the recordMay 30, 1945
Dear Steve: I am very loath to see June first come around because, as you state in your very kind letter of the twenty-eighth, it means that you are definitely leaving your official post at the White House.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Letter Accepting Resignation of Stephen T. Early as Secretary to the President.

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