Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

An appropriation of $10,000,000 will therefore be needed to meet the expenditure requirements for 1938.

Letter to the Speaker of the House Requesting Appropriations for the United States Maritime Commission

06/07/1937

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National planning should start at the bottom.

I would, therefore, urge upon the Congress that all but policy-forming positions be placed within its provisions.

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Please let me urge upon the Congress the desirability of placing all but policy-forming positions under the merit system.