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No End in Sight. At the press conference at which he announced the cabinet changes, Harry Truman flatly said that Secretaries Stettinius and Morgenthau, whose imminent departure had long been rumored, would definitely stay. But Administration insiders thought differently. They predicted that after the San Francisco Conference and the Seventh War Bond Drive were safely over, both secretaries would go—Stettinius to the London ambassadorship and Morgenthau to his Dutchess County farm. There were also rumors that aging War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, 77, would leave before VJ-day.