Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"Dr. John Bruce Arnold may be appointed as acting assistant surgeon, United States Public Health Service, Treasury Department, without compliance with the requirements of civil-service rule II."

"the time limit prescribed by civil-service rule IX be waived to permit the reinstatement of Miss Irene C. Claveloux to a position in the General Accounting Office"

"Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act entitled 'An Act to authorize annual appropriations to meet losses sustained by officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due t..."

"It has been and will be the policy of the Administration to favor continued limitation of Naval armaments."