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He said, “That's fine,” and thanked me very much, so that I had thought there would be ample notice. I said, “If you have and when you have selected someone, then just give me notice, and I'll go ahead and prepare the memorandum for the I.L.O. meeting. That's the principle thing that the Department of Labor has to do right now.

But I did have this talk with him in which he said, “No, I don't want you to resign right now.” So I felt fairly sure, and I was a little surprised when my conversation with Early brought out the idea that perhaps I'd better do it right away, which was at least a month later, I think. No, it couldn't have been a monthlater--a few weeks.

Interviewer:

April 20th was the first Cabinet meeting. May 23rd was when your resignation was announced, to take affect July 1.

Perkins:

I don't remember when it was announced, but I couldn't have had much more than a month there when I was moving along expecting to have rather ample notice. And the reason I went in to see Early that day that I did--it was after a Cabinet meeting. That's right--we'd had a Cabinet meeting on the day I went to see Early.

Interviewer:

You only had three. There were just three Truman Cabinet meetings you had before your resignation





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