View gallery . U.S. President Barack Obama announces the resignation of U.S. Secretary of Veteran Affairs Eric Shinseki after meeting with Shinseki at the White House in Washington, May 30, 2014. (REUTERS/Larry Downing) U.S. President Barack Obama announces the resignation of U.S. Secretary of Veteran Affairs Eric Shinseki after … A day after calling Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki “an American hero,” President Barack Obama on Friday announced he had accepted the retired general’s resignation amid a political firestorm over his agency’s dramatic and sometimes deadly failure to care for wounded vets. “A few minutes ago, Secretary Shinseki offered me his own resignation. With considerable regret, I accepted,” Obama said in a hastily arranged appearance in the White House briefing room. The president and the former Army chief of staff had met an hour earlier in the Oval Office to discuss the agency’s widespread lapses and efforts to remedy them. http://news.yahoo.com/obama-accepts-shinseki-resignation-amid-veterans-administration-scandal-153851100.html