Lyndon Johnson actually said...

There is too much at stake for us to consider for a moment that a position of responsibility is to be parceled out either as a plum of patronage or as a reward for partisanship.

Context

Remarks at the Presentation of the National Civil Service League's Career Service Awards.

05/18/1965

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