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Executive Order 11320—Delegating Authority to Prescribe Rules and Regulations Relating to Foreign Gifts and Decorations

December 12, 1966

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 7 of the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-673; 80 Stat. 952) and Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

The Secretary of State, and, when designated by the Secretary of State for such purpose, the Under Secretary of State, are hereby designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, the authority conferred upon the President by Section 7 of the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act of 1966 to prescribe rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of that Act. Such rules and regulations shall be published in the Federal Register.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

The White House

December 12,1966

NOTE: Executive Order 11320 was not made public in the form of a White House press release.

Lyndon B. Johnson, Executive Order 11320—Delegating Authority to Prescribe Rules and Regulations Relating to Foreign Gifts and Decorations Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/306186

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