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experience.

Then there was another man who I still think must have been crazy. He passed number one on every civil service examination that was ever held in the State of New York. He could be the number one man. I appointed him once for two reasons. He was number one on the list and had strong Tammany Hall backing. I couldn't think of anything that was wrong about that. It would please the organization and it was absolutely okay civil servicewise. He had passed a very good examination. His education and training were fine. He was one of these people who, having all those qualifications, just couldn't make himself produce or work or do the things that he was qualified to do and which he knew how to do. He couldn't make himself do them. I suppose today we'd call him a psychiatric case. He took out this energy that he had in being a trouble maker. He was a terrible trouble maker. Eventually I had to remove him. It was an extremely painful thing to remove him - painful because he had certain rights as a civil servant and I had to bring charges against him, and because he had built up a lot of support politically. I had to explain to more than one district leader why I couldn't allow this man to go on. I had some very good support from inside the Department from people who were





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