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1932 › Herbert Hoover (Republican) › Civil service and patronage
Keep the merit system 'unassailable'
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Solution
Maintain the civil-service merit system as an unassailable part of government.
Rationale
The merit system 'has been amply justified since the organization of the Civil Service by the Republican Party.'
Statements (1)
The merit system has been amply justified since the organization of the Civil Service by the Republican Party. As a part of our governmental system it is now unassailable. We believe it should remain so.
Follow-through
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Hoover lost the election; the pledge could not be tested in office. New Deal emergency agencies were largely exempt from the merit system until the Ramspeck Act (1940).
Other positions on this issue
- Restore, improve and extend the merit system 'virtually destroyed by New Deal spoilsmen' — Alf Landon, 1936 directional_stance
- Immediately extend the merit system to all non-policy-making federal positions — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 specific_pledge
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