Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"Mrs. Myrtle K. Brockway may be appointed to a clerical position in the General Accounting Office without compliance with the civil-service rules."

"The period of eligibility of those candidates for appointment as Foreign Service officers whose names were on the eligible list on March 20, 1934, is hereby extended one year and a half from the date ..."

"It is, of course, clear to me that it is reasonable that some provision for appeal should be a part of Government policy."

"These recommendations represent our best judgment as to the steps which ought to be taken immediately toward the realization of what you termed in your recent message to the Congress 'the ambition of ..."