Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Aside from the undoubted fact that the merit system affords the best method for administration of government business, the particular feature of the system which has the greatest appeal is the open competition it provides to the taxpayers to seek the public employment for which they pay.

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Letters on the Extension of the Merit System in the Civil Service

06/01/1937

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