Having worked with “civil servants,” they rarely are civil nor do they consider themselves servants to the public. Not so sure those Chinese weren’t on to something with the “chop chop” thing to keep government employees in line. ;)
Grover was a great man -- I count him as the third greatest President, yet the trouble with corrupt New York City and national politics he solved with a theoretically politically-divorced class of civil servants has become a greater problem still.
Why do folks vote a man with no proven history like Obama? Because they feel a false comfort that the machinery of state could operate well with any fool at it's helm. So they turned the Presidency into American Idol.
Under a policy that ALL government jobs are subject to fire-at-will (just like the private non-union sector) the people would have though considerably harder before electing a man of NO executive experience. Just as that did with Grover, himself. Grover had proven himself as a most effective and honorable executive.