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The Deadly Story of the U.S. Civil Service
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Enlarge this image Hulton Archive/Getty Images Hulton Archive/Getty Images When James Garfield won the Presidency in 1880, Charles Guiteau got ready to accept his new government job. Today on the show: how an assassination meant to restore the spoils system instead led to its end, and birthed the modern federal workforce.