What Trump is doing to the US government is not a spoils system
We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...
Doris Kearns Goodwin: We are witnessing an attempt to return to the old spoils system
The U.S. is witnessing in these last couple of weeks with the firings of civil servants is an attempt to return to the old ...
Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies
Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...
How a president's death helped kill Washington's "spoils system"
In the 1800s, the main job requirement for most federal employees was loyalty to the newly-elected president. But after a ...
Trump’s Corrupt Plan to Fire Federal Workers, Hire Loyalists and Build His Own ‘Deep State’
Shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, freezing foreign aid, placing the agency’s 10,000 employees ...
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Making Connections between Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump
To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...
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How a president's death helped kill Washington's "spoils system"
He says that under that "spoils system," the main job requirement for most federal employees was … loyalty. It was a system inaugurated by Democratic President Andrew Jackson. "When he came in ...