Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I regret the inclusion of this provision in the bill.

Executive Order No. 6910 of November 26, 1934, as amended, temporarily withdrawing all public lands in certain states for classification and...

I strongly recommend, as urged in my communication to the Congress of June 2, 1937, that all but policy-forming positions in the Executive b...

I think it would have been preferable to bring the positions within the civil service system.