On the recordFebruary 26, 1975
I am determined... to keep the Federal career service just that--a career service in which men and women can be accepted in the first place on their ability and promoted on their merit.
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Letter to President Mortimer M. Caplin of the National Civil Service League on the Civil Service Merit System.
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