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FDR: “I have recommended and I support legislation to perfect the merit system in the central agency and in departments with…”

On the recordJanuary 18, 1938
I have recommended and I support legislation to perfect the merit system in the central agency and in departments with ample safeguards to insure the proper use of discretionary powers needed by those who shall administer the system.
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FDR
Democratic · New York
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Statement on the Federal Civil Service Merit System

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