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On the recordFebruary 26, 1975
I fully expect those charged with the responsibility of assuring the integrity of the merit system to live up to that responsibility.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

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

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