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    1. “Reconstruction and slavery we have done with; for administrative and revenue reform we are eager.” E. L. Godkin, 1872 @wcaleb/817197474154745858
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    Horace Greeley also paired his calls for North and South to “clasp hands across the bloody chasm” with calls for civil service reform.
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      This 1876 law dates to a time when talk of “civil service reform” often meant “forget about the Civil War.” washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/house-republicans-revive-obscure-rule-that-could-allow-them-to-slash-the-pay-of-individual-federal-workers-to-1/2017/01/04/4e80c990-d2b2-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html
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