Responding to Pickens' recent correspondence; describing disputes in the office and recounting the professional tensions and other circumstances that led to them; defending his actions and attitudes while in his post and complaining of the "dirty frame up" launched against him; hoping to "straighten my side out, to a degree" though resisting further conciliatory measures: "When I say that I don't want to come back and talk it over, I mean that the sight of this office makes me sick."
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