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Who,” said he, “ever heard before of a man nominated Secretary of State merely as a compliment?” But this is only another case of the public service subordinated to personal considerations.
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Sumner relays a colleague's astonishment at the unusual practice of nominating someone to a high office merely as a compliment.
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