Harry Truman actually said...

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.

Those people who want to work and are willing to shoulder responsibility will always find plenty of responsibility, and plenty of work.

I consider it not only a duty, but a genuine privilege, to call upon all men and women of good will to support this humanitarian cause.