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Executive Order 11266—Draft Status of Fathers in Certain Essential Occupations

January 18, 1966

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universal Military Training and Service Act (62 Stat. 604), as amended, I hereby prescribe the following amendment of the Selective Service Regulations prescribed by Executive Orders No. 10292 of September 25, 1951, No. 10469 of July 11, 1953, and No. 11098 of March 14, 1963, and constituting portions of Chapter XVI of Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

Paragraph (a) of section 622.30, Registrant with a Child or Children; and Registrant Deferred by Reason of Extreme Hardship to Dependents, is amended to read as follows:

"(a) In Class III-A shall be placed any registrant who has a child or children with whom he maintains a bona fide family relationship in their home and who is not a physician, dentist or veterinarian, or who is not in an allied specialist category which may be announced by the Director of Selective Service after being advised by the Secretary of Defense that a special requisition under authority of section 1631.4 of these regulations will be issued for the delivery of registrants in such category."

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

The White House

January 18, 1966

NOTE: Executive Order 11266 was not made public in the form of a White House press release.

Lyndon B. Johnson, Executive Order 11266—Draft Status of Fathers in Certain Essential Occupations Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/301326

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