JULIUS BING

In the early days of the Republic, civil service officers as well as the Presidents and the Cabinet, were generally selected from well-known families…. Andrew Johnson, would not have passed a test by a civil service commission; it would not have required a profound psychological knowledge to arrive at the conclusion, that a man may rise from the tailor shop to … the gubernatorial chair, and yet be morally and intellectually incapable of presiding … over the destinies of a great nation.

In the early days of the Republic, civil service officers as well as the Presidents and the Cabinet, were generally selected from well-known families…. Andrew Johnson, would not have passed a test by a civil service commission; it would not have required a profound psychological knowledge to arrive at the conclusion, that a man may rise from the tailor shop to … the gubernatorial chair, and yet be morally and intellectually incapable of presiding … over the destinies of a great nation.