Executive Orders that Defined Reagan's Presidency

* Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr. is Vice President for Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Page 2. 2 in costs on the economy, ones likely to ... This order stayed in place until President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9742 on June 25, 1946. EO 9742 ordered the liquidation of the War Relocation ... Meanwhile, some of the more famous executive orders have changed the course of history. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation ... 26 Results ; 18 Nov, 1988. Executive Order 12656: Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities ; 18 Nov, 1988. Executive Order 12657: Federal Emergency ... Immediately following the inaugural ceremonies, the new President signed an executive order removing price controls on oil and gasoline – his first effort to ... What exactly is an executive order, and how significant are they to a president's legacy? One of the first ways a new president is able to ... Executive Order 12291, issued by President Reagan in 1981, gave OIRA the responsibility to review the substance of agencies' regulatory actions before ... Reagan enacted cuts in domestic discretionary spending, cut taxes, and increased military spending contributed to increased federal outlays overall, even after ... Beginning with President Ronald Reagan, presidents of both political parties increasingly have relied on executive orders and other unilateral written ... From 1987 to 1990, Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, Sr. used their executive authority to protect from deportation a group that Congress left out of ...