... much bitterness and jobs were openly bought and sold. Incompetence, corruption, and outright theft were common. In 1881, President James A Garfield was assassinated by a disgruntled job seeker while waiting to board a vacation train in Washington's old Baltimore and Potomac railroad station. Garfield's death gave new impetus to a Civil Service reform bill introduced six months earlier by Senator George Pendleton of Ohio and ... ...

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... Referendum through the 1979 Revolution. Relations between the US and Iran became strained from this point forward, the Iranian Hostage Crisis and Iranian relations with Islamic Fundamentalist groups such as Hezbollah indicating the direction in which the newly founded Islamic Republic would head. In just years, Iran had ceased to be the "Island of stability in the troubled Middle East ... ...

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