Calvin Coolidge: “Here again if we receive anything we must surrender something.”

Mr. Samuel H. Thompson may be appointed to an appropriate position in or under the Indian Bureau without reference to the civil service rules.

You have been, I think, quite successful in interpreting the administration to the country.

No employee entitled to military preference in appointment shall be discharged or dropped or reduced in rank or salary if his record is good.

The Executive order of October 28, 1925, withdrawing Lot 6 Sec. 6, Lots 1 and 2 Sec. 7, T. 7 N., R. 1 E., H.M., California, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 847), as amended, is hereby modified…