Gerald Ford actually said...

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.

Context

Letter to President Mortimer M. Caplin of the National Civil Service League on the Civil Service Merit System.

02/26/1975

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