The Reagan Presidency Key Executive Orders and Their Impact

Perhaps the most famous executive order, the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln, marked a shift in the power of the ... Creating an emergency board to investigate railroad labor disputes between certain workers and transportation systems operated by the Secretary of the Army. In the course of directing the activities of the executive branch, presidents since George Washington have issued executive orders on a wide variety of subjects ... Since FDR, more and more major policies have been initiated by executive order. Roosevelt himself, for instance, ordered the military to move ... Still, he did issue some executive orders — 724 over the course of his presidency. ... Ronald Reagan | Biography & Presidency · Ronald Reagan's Accomplishments ... Executive Order 12291, issued by President Reagan in 1981, gave OIRA the responsibility to review the substance of agencies' regulatory actions before ... President Nixon issued 346 Executive Orders, which are organized here by year. NOTE: The total number of Executive orders issued includes number-and-letter ... A month before he left office, President Carter signed the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, which established the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs ( ... Homeland security-related Executive Orders and Presidential Directives authored by Ronald Reagan. After World War II, President Truman issued the most at 907, followed by Dwight D. Eisenhower at 484 and Ronald Reagan at 381. EOs have also ...