This became known as the “spoils system.” Like Trump ... Americans can expect government to be less competent — as Andrew Jackson learned during his administration. While this might not ...

and there have been comparisons to the spoils system put in place by his presidential hero, Andrew Jackson. It’s an imperfect comparison, as I learned from Daniel Feller, a professor emeritus of ...

"To the victor belong the spoils." For decades in the 1800s, that phrase was more than a slogan; it was the official hiring ...

A cartoon of President Andrew Jackson atop a pig depicts his spoils system, which rewarded party members with government jobs. Bettmann/GettyImages Jackson was quite wrong about some of his ...

He says that under that "spoils system," the main job requirement for most federal employees was … loyalty. It was a system inaugurated by Democratic President Andrew Jackson. "When he came in ...

As we write in our book “How Government Built America,” newly elected President Andrew Jackson ... That’s not what Jackson, the nation’s seventh president, and his system aimed to do ...

This became known as the “spoils system.” Like Trump ... Americans can expect government to be less competent – as Andrew Jackson learned during his administration. While this might not ...