Pendleton Act
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Lonsdale: Civil service merit testing for federal agency leaders ended in 1970s
“The people running all the agencies used to have to pass pretty hard tests. Most people couldn't pass them. So you had some sense of the merit of people in charge of various things. And those were taken out in the seventies.”