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Notoriously he has appointed to his Cabinet several among these “Greeks bearing gifts,” without seeming to see the indecorum, if not the indecency, of the transaction.
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Sumner criticizes the President's appointments to his Cabinet, suggesting they are inappropriate and lacking decorum.
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