Grover Cleveland actually said...

But any person who has for three years last preceding served as a clerk in the office of the President of the United States may be transferr...

Any person in the classified departmental service may be transferred and appointed to any other place therein upon the following conditions:

It is sufficient that I should call the earnest attention of Congress to the circumstance that the statute makes no provision whatever for t...

The supposition should not be indulged that Congress...intended to make its protection depend upon the performance of conditions which it wa...