Press Release, Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and Watson B. Miller

236 IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 6, 1950 The President today sent the following letter to the Honorable Watson B. Miller, accepting his resimation as Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service: "Dear Commissioner Miller: I have considered your letter of May thirty-first in the light of plans for your future activities as made known to me in recent conversations. Accordingly, I have no recourse but to comply with your wishes. I accept, there- fore, reluctantly your resignation as Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, effective at the close of business on Friday, June 9, 1950. I regret that you are leaving the service of the Government. Please be assured that I appreciate the efficiency of your administration as well as the sympathetic consideration you have given to the many disturbing problems presented during these particularly trying years, both in the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Federal Security Administration. Being aware of your deep interest in the public welfare, I know that you will continue to direct your energies and abilities in behalf of the betterment of humanity, and you may be sure you have my best wishes for success and happiness. FRUMA, Very sincerely yours, NARA HARRY S. TRUMAN" Following is the text of Commissioner Miller's letter to the President: "Dear Mr. President: Please permit me again to express my appreciation of your understanding and interest in having granted me permission to leave the post to which you assigned me some three years ago in order that I may engage in some work of moment for the American Legion. You will recall that the organization sur- rendered me to Government when about ten years ago I was called to aid in our common defense effort. Even prior to that time I had been close to Government through two decades though not officially of it. The years of these two phases have been great years for me. I have been permitted as an Administrator a part in sensitive and important aspects of a cataclysmic war. Then as before I have had great respect for our Government and respect and affection for the men and women with whom I have worked directly as well as collaterally. I hope before my time is called that I may in some graphic way take my first-hand re- actions to our people so as .to increase confidence if possible, particularly as we again pass through a period of many per- plexities, in those who carry out their mandates in conducting the business of the Nation. As Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization I have had close contact with thousands of human beings generally troubled, many of them poignantly so. I have tried to lighten these burdens of distress. I'y superiors have supported me always as have you. It has been a stimulating (OVER)