I am honored by the President's offer to include me in his distinguished cabinet. I have enjoyed my career in Washington as Secretary of Agriculture and am proud of the service I have been permitted to fulfill to the people of the United States. However in my old age I must regrettably decline the offer.
I intend to retire to Oklahoma, a land I am well acquainted with from my youth, home to a people I admire. To the men and women who have become my friends here in Washington over the past many years, I wish success, prosperity, and, most of all, wisdom and clarity.
- Algernon Russell
((I'll be creating a new character pretty soon. Russell himself is fairly old at this point.))