The Power of Ronald Reagan's Executive Authority

... Order from President Lincoln to Major ... 52 While retaining many of the basic features of President Reagan's order, Executive Order 12866. Reagan won 489 electoral votes to 49 for President Jimmy Carter. On January 20, 1981, Reagan took office. Only 69 days later he was shot by a would-be assassin, ... ... executive orders for the transition team to consider. ... “They have to take a page out of Ronald Reagan's book and focus the entire Cabinet on ... Executive Orders for Less Government. President Reagan and his appointees were committed to lightening the burden of federal regulation, and one ... An executive order signed by President Reagan would institute the ... major weapons system or major element of defense strategy.' The ... It first produced policy plans for future Republican administrations in 1981, when Ronald Reagan was about to take office. ... executive orders that Trump could ... Reagan never signed a replacement order, and Johnson's affirmative action order has remained in effect ever since. President Lyndon B. Johnson, ... Executive orders and other presidential directives that conflict with the principles of individual liberty, free markets, limited government, ... When President Reagan signed Executive Order 12291 on Feb. 17, he transformed with a stroke of his pen what had been a useful economic tool ... A major purpose of this legislation is to restore solvency to ... Executive Order 12402--National Commission on Social Security Reform --January 15, 1983.