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The Present Status of Civil Service Reform by T. Roosevelt (1895)

5 pointsby 1y agotheatlantic.com

Thought folks could do with a little history about how (and why) the US federal bureaucracy was originally de-politicized, in the words of one (not yet president) Teddy Roosevelt.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt#Civil_Ser...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Civil_Service_...

... the United States Civil Service Commission was later replaced by the Office of Personnel Management and the Merit Systems Protection Board in 1978.

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