Woodrow Wilson to John B. White

I think that you have a perfect right to ask to be relieved of your labors in the Shipping Board and I feel obliged by the argument you have used to accept your resignation from the Board.
In doing so, however, may I not express my appreciation of the sense of public duty with which you have served and thank you for the time and labor you have devoted to the important business of a great instrumentality of government?