Harry Truman actually said...

At my personal urging you have agreed to remain in Washington far beyond the time when you had expressed a hope of leaving government servic...

Don't let anybody tell you that by effort and by hard work you can't reach the top in the profession, if you want to, because people who try...

Your service to your country covering a period of almost nine years during this administration and that of my predecessor has been as varied...

I accept your resignation effective at the close of business on March thirty-first.