It may depend on the terms of the agreement.
Might it only have applied to resignation, but not being fired?
Also, Mattis strikes me as a mission-oriented guy. & Mattis may understand that if doesn't stay on, there won't be anybody to mind the store ... "the inmates have overtaken the asylum".
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
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