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Executive Order 11366: Assigning Authority to Order Certain Persons in the Ready Reserve to Active Duty

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"The Secretary of Defense is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the authority vested in the President by section 673a of title 10 of the United States Code, to order to active duty any member of the Ready Reserve of an armed force (except the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy)."

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

1967-08-04
Executive Order 11348: Providing for the Further Training of Government Employees

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"It is the policy of the Government of the United States to develop its employees through the establishment and operation of progressive and efficient training programs, thereby improving public service, increasing efficiency and economy, building and retaining a force of skilled and efficient employees, and installing and using the best modern practices and techniques in the conduct of the Government's business."

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

1967-04-20
Executive Order 11327: Assigning Authority to Order Certain Persons in the Ready Reserve to Active Duty

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"The Secretary of Defense, and, when designated by him for this purpose, any of the secretaries of the military departments of the Department of Defnese, are hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the authority vested in the President until June 30, 1968, by Title I of the Department of Defence Appropriation Act, 1967, to order to active duty any member of the ready reserve of an armed force."

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

1967-02-15
Executive Order 11326: Providing for the Regulation of Air Transportation in the Ryukyu Islands

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"The provision of Titles IV, VIII, IX, X, and Section 1108 (b) of the Act, together with the related definitions in Section 101 thereof, are extended to the Ryukyu Islands insofar as applicable to the economic regulation by the Board of civil air transportation originating in the Ryukyu Islands and terminating elsewhere, or terminating in the Ryukyu Islands and originating elsewhere, or transiting the Ryukyu Islands."

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

1967-02-13
Executive Order 11274: Providing That Certain Officers May Act as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

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"[1.] In the event of a vacancy in the Office of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or during the absence or disability of the Secretary, the Under Secretary shall act as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. [2.] During any period when, by reason of absence, disability, or vacancy in office, neither the Secretary nor the Under Secretary is available to exercise the powers or perform the duties of the Office of the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary or the General Counsel, in such order as the Secretary may from time to time prescribe, shall act as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. If no such order of succession is in effect at that time, then they shall act in the order in which they shall have taken office as Assistant Secretaries or General Counsel."

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

1966-03-30
Executive Order 11269: National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies

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"By virtue of the authority vested in me by Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1965 (30 FR 9353), and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:Section 1. Establishment of Council. (a) There is hereby established the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies, hereinafter referred to as the Council. (b) The Council shall be composed of the following members: the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall be the chairman of the Council, the Secretary of State, the United States Trade Representative, the Secretary of Commerce, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Director of the International Development Cooperation Agency, and the President of the Export-Import Bank of Washington. (c) Whenever matters within the jurisdiction of the Council may be of interest to Federal agencies not represented on the Council under Section 1(b) of this order, the Chairman of the Council may consult with such agencies and may invite them to designate representatives to participate in meetings and deliberations of the Council."

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

1966-02-14
Executive Order 11246: Equal Employment Opportunity

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This Executive Order deals with the roles and duties of the Secretary of Labor in ensuring compliance with equal opportunity laws and regulations. This Executive Order is superseded by Executive Order 11478 of Aug. 8, 1969. Also, Executive Orders Nos. 10590 (January 19, 1955), 10722 (August 5, 1957), 10925 (March 6, 1961), 11114 (June 22, 1963), and 11162 (July 28, 1964), are hereby superseded and the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity established by Executive Order No. 10925 is hereby abolished.

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

1965-09-24
Executive Order 11239: Enforcement of the Convention for Safety of Life at Sea, 1960. This order supersedes Executive Order No,. 10402. Executive Order No. 7548 is revoked.

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"The Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury (acting through the Coast Guard), the Secretary of Commerce (acting through the Weather Bureau), and the Federal Communications Commission, respectively, are hereby directed in relation to the fulfillment of the obligations undertaken by the Government of the United States of America under the Convention, to perform the functions and duties therein prescribed and undertaken which appertain to the functions and duties which they severally are now authorized or directed by law to perform. Each of the Secretaries and title Commission shall cooperate and assist the others in carrying out the duties imposed by the Convention and by this order."

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

1965-07-31
Executive Order 11231: Establishing the Vietnam Service Medal

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"There is hereby established the Vietnam Service Medal with suitable appurtenances. Except as limited in section 2 of this order, and under uniform regulations to be prescribed by the Secretaries of the military departments and approved by the Secretary of Defense, or regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, the Vietnam Service Medal shall be awarded to members of the armed forces who serve in Vietnam or contiguous waters or air space, as defined by such regulations, after July 3, 1965, and before a terminal date to be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense."

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

1965-07-08
Executive Order 11223: Relating to the Performance of Functions Authorized by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as Amended

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"By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 633 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 75 Stat. 454 (22 U.S.C. 2393), it is hereby determined that, to the extent hereinafter indicated, the performance of functions authorized by that Act, as amended, and any predecessor legislation, without regard to the laws specified in the numbered subdivisions of Sections 1 and 2 of this order and without regard to consideration as specified in Sections 3 and 4 of this order will further the purposes of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended[.]"

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

1965-05-12
National Security Action Memorandum 334: Request for Nuclear Weapons Dispersal Authorization

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Much as National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 305 did for FY 1994, NSAM 334 takes various actions relating to nuclear weapons dispersal applicable to the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense for FY 1965. It authorized the Atomic Energy Commission to transfer to DoD a certain number of separable nuclear components and complete atomic weapons, and replace damaged or lost nuclear components/warheads in DoD custody. The Department of Defense, in turn, was authorized to obtain custody of a number of nuclear components and weapons (specific number blacked out), disperse atomic weapons in the US, disperse nuclear weapons outside of the US and provide nuclear weapons and support to non-U.S force.

United States. White House Office

1965-01-01
Executive Order 11190: Providing for the Screening of the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces

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"By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States code, and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, it is ordered as follows : There is delegated to the Secretary of Defense (and to the Secretary of the Treasury with regard to the United States Coast Guard) the authority rested in the President by section 271 of title 10 of the United States Code to prescribe regulations for the screening of units and members of the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces."

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

1964-12-29
National Security Action Memorandum 322: Guidelines for Discussions on the Nuclear Defense of the Atlantic Alliance

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National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 322 established views and positions the President desired his negotiators to take while in discussions relating to the "nuclear defense of the Atlantic Alliance," i.e. NATO. In addition, the Directive is also interesting in that it hints at nuclear disagreements between the U.S. and France, lays out the U.S.'s position that Europe must have the United States' consent before firing nuclear weapons, and the President's views on what the advantages of an agreement with Europe. Namely, such an agreement would reduce or remove some countries from the area of nuclear strategic deterrence, while at the same time fostering the idea of collective versus independent nuclear strategic defense.

United States. White House Office

1964-12-17
National Security Action Memorandum 320: Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation

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With National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 307 President Johnson appointed a special Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation, (President's Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation) under the chairmanship of, then, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, and composed of various other policy advisers. The Task Force was tasked with examining the problem of proliferation in its "broadest ramifications" and to provide the President with a report by the end of January 1965.

United States. White House Office

1964-11-25
National Security Action Memorandum 318: Future of Nuclear Defense of Atlantic Alliance

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National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 318 required that government representatives travelling abroad for discussions on the nuclear defense of the Atlantic Alliance (i.e., NATO) have their instructions cleared by the White House and the State and Defense Departments first. Additionally, the Secretaries of Defense and State were charged with designating which of their officers were to be allowed to discuss such issues with the press and which were to be instructed not to discuss them at all. "It is critically important that this Government should speak with one voice on this subject in the future."

United States. White House Office

1964-11-14
National Security Action Memorandum 311: Review of the Problem of Assurance Against Any Missile Crisis in Cuba

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National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 311 requested the undertaking of a study into "all the aspects of the problem of maintaining adequate assurance against an attempted reintroduction of offensive missiles into Cuba," laying out various courses of action available to the United States. The study was to be undertaken by "representatives" of the secretaries of State and Defense as well as the Director of the CIA.

United States. White House Office

1964-07-10
Executive Order 11157: Prescribing Regulations Relating to Incentive Pay for Hazardous Duty, Special Pay for Sea Duty and Duty at Certain Places, Basic Allowances for Subsistence and Basic Allowances for Quarters

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"The term 'aerial flight' shall be construed to mean flight in an aircraft or glider; and a flight shall be deemed to begin when the aircraft or glider takes off from rest at any point of support and to terminate when ti comes to a complete stop at a point of support."

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

1964-06-22
National Security Action Memorandum 307: Review of Underground Nuclear Tests

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With National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 307, President Johnson "reconstituted" the Review Committee on Underground Nuclear Tests and enumerated its members. The directive mandated the Committee to review requests for authorization of specific scheduled tests and consider their "policy and technical justifications" to determine if said tests were "consistent with the requirement of national security and foreign policy." The directive also called on the Committee to transmit its recommendations to the President for his full consideration, and to continue performing additional functions as directed by National Security Action Memorandum 269, "Procedure for Approval of Certain Nuclear Tests," instituted during the Kennedy administration.

United States. White House Office

1964-06-19
National Security Action Memorandum 305: Nuclear Weapons Dispersal Authorization for FY 1964

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In this National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM), President Johnson takes various actions relating to nuclear weapons dispersal applicable to the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense. Among other things, NSAM 305 authorized the Atomic Energy Commission to transfer to DoD a certain number of completed and parts for nuclear weapons, and replace damaged or lost nuclear components/warheads in DoD custody. The Department of Defense, in turn, was authorized to obtain custody of a number of nuclear components and weapons (specific number blacked out), disperse atomic weapons in the US without limit within the range of weapons allowed to them, disperse nuclear weapons outside of the US and provide nuclear weapons and support to non-U.S force as permitted by previous memoranda, and, provide the president with a dispersal pan for the following fiscal year.

United States. White House Office

1964-06-16
National Security Action Memorandum 300: Review of Alternative Communications, Navigation, Missile and Space Tracking and Data Acquisition Facilities

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This National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) states that, "The Secretary of State in cooperation with the heads of other responsible departments and agencies of the Government is requested to review the continuing need for U.S. overseas land-based facilities that are now located in politically unstable or unreliable areas and which are utilized for communications, navigation, missile and space tracking, and data acquisition. Each responsible operating agency will analyze the continuing need for its facilities now located in politically unstable or unreliable areas as identified by the Secretary of State and develop plans to meet the contingency that such facilities may become unavailable for further U.S. use."

United States. White House Office

1964-05-19
National Security Action Memorandum 301: Intelligence Installations, Reference NSAM No. 300

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"As a corollary to the study called for in the referenced National Security Action Memorandum [NSAM], the Director of the Central Intelligence in consultation with the Secretary of Defense is requested to review and report on significant intelligence-related installations now located in politically unstable and unreliable areas, as identified by the Secretary of State."

United States. White House Office

1964-05-19
National Security Action Memorandum 294: U.S. Nuclear and Strategic Delivery System Assistance to France

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"In NSAM 294 it was determined that 'It is the policy of this government to oppose the development of nuclear forces by additional states, other than those whose forces would be assigned as part of a NATO nuclear force, targeted in accordance with NATO plans and, except when supreme national interests were at stake, used only for the defense purposes of the alliance."

United States. White House Office

1964-04-20
Executive Order 11139: Authorizing Acceptance of the United Nations Medal and Service Ribbon

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"I hereby authorize the Secretary of Defense, with respect to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, and the Secretary of the Treasury, with respect to members of the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, to prescribe regulations under which the United Nations Medal and Service Ribbon may be accepted by members of the armed forces who have been determined eligible for consideration in accordance with the Regulations for the United Nations Medal, promulgated by the United Nations Organization on July 30,1959. A determination that service with the United Nations in a particular geographic area or for a particular purpose constitutes a justifiable basis for authorizing acceptance of the United Nations Medal and Service Ribbon by eligible members of the armed forces of the United States shall be made with the concurrence of the Secretary of State."

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

1964-01-07
Executive Order 11137: Relating to Certain Allowances and Benefits for Civilian Employees of Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities of the Armed Forces

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EO 11137 relates to certain allowances and benefits for civilian employees of nonappropriated fund instrumentalities of the Armed Forces.

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

1964-01-07
Executive Order 11079: Providing for the Prescribing of Regulations Under Which Members of the Armed Forces and Others May Accept Fellowships, Scholarships, or Grants

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"By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 2603 of Title 10, United States Code, I hereby designate the Secretary of Defense, with respect to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the Secretary of the Treasury, with respect to members of the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Nary, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, with respect to commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, to prescribe regulations under which members of the Armed Forces and commissioned officers of the Public Health Service may accept fellowships, scholarships, or grants from corporations, funds, foundations, or educational institutions organized and operated primarily for scientific, literary, or educational purposes. To the extent practicable, such regulations shall be uniform."

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

1963-01-25
Executive Order 11070: Amendment of the List of Communicable Diseases Contained in Executive Order No. 9708 of March 26, 1946, as Amended by Executive Order No. 10532 of May 28, 1954

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This executive order amends Executive Order 9708, which establishes a list of Communicable Diseases. "Whereas the National Advisory Health Council and the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service have recommended that the communicable disease Chickenpox be likewise specified by including the designation thereof in the list of communicable diseases contained in the said Executive orders, and that the communicable diseases Hemolytic Streptococcal Infections be likewise specified by including the designation thereof in said list in place of Scarlet Fever and Streptococcic Sore Throatthe list of communicable diseases contained in Executive Order No. 9708, as amended by Executive Order No. 10532, is hereby further amended by including therein a specification of the communicable disease Chickenpox and a specification of the communicable diseases Hemolytic Streptococcal Infections in place of Scarlet Fever and Streptococcic Sore Throat."

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

1962-12-12
National Security Action Memorandum 205: Nuclear Testing

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This Nuclear Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) outlines a process for review of the 1962 atmospheric test series and their effect on the relative balance between U.S. and Soviet capabilities, and call for a Committee which "should address itself not only to the specific question of what has been learned by testing in terms of the design of nuclear weapons, their effects, and defense against them, but also to the broader question of the military significance of what has been learned and its probable effects on the present and prospective military balance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union."

United States. White House Office

1962-11-09
National Security Action Memorandum 203: Responsibility for Port Security

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National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 203 outlines the responsibilities of the Attorney General and Secretary of the Treasury in the area of port security.

United States. White House Office

1962-11-07
National Security Action Memorandum 200: Acceleration of Civil Defense

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With National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 200, the President approved the plan for the acceleration of the current civil defense program; gave his qualified approval to a plan to prepare for possible nuclear attack in regions which are within MRBM range of Cuba; and directed that preparatory steps be taken to effect a plan which outlines actions to be taken in the vicinity of targets relatively close to Cuba to prepare for attack with conventional weapons.

United States. White House Office

1962-10-28
Executive Order 11051: Prescribing Responsibilities of the Office of Emergency Planning in the Executive Office of the President

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"The Director of the Office of Emergency Planning will advise and assist the President in the coordination of and in the determination of policy for the emergency plans and preparedness assignments of the federal departments and agencies (hereinafter referred to as Federal agencies) designed to make possible at Federal, State and local levels the mobilization of the human, natural and industrial resources of the nation to meet all conditions of national emergency, including attack on the United States." Executive Orders amended are as follows: Executive Order Nos. 10296, 10312, 10346, 10421, 10427, 10480, 1049, 106, 1034 1, 1705,10737, 10900, 10952, 10958, 10242, 10346, 10421, 1029, 1082, 10789. Executive Orders that have been Superseded and revoked include: Executive Order Nos. 9981, 10219, 10269, 10438, 10461, 10524, 10539, 10638, 10773, 10782, and 10902.

United States. Office of the Federal Register

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

1962-09-27

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