Executive Order 8371—Amending Section 3 of Executive Order No. 8044 of January 31, 1939, and Appointing Attorney General Robert H. Jackson a Member of the Committee To Investigate and Report Methods for Selecting and Promoting Certain Personnel in Civil Service

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution, by section 1753 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 5, sec. 631), by the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403, 404), and as President of the United States, it is ordered that section 3 of Executive Order No. 8044 of January 31, 1939, be and it is hereby amended to read as follows:

3. A committee is hereby appointed consisting of the following:

     Mr. Justice Stanley Reed, Chairman
     Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter
     Mr. Justice Frank Murphy
     Attorney General Robert H. Jackson
     William H. McReynolds, Administrative Assistant to the President
     Mr. Leonard D. White
     General Robert E. Wood
     Mr. Gano Dunn

Such committee shall make a comprehensive study of methods of recruiting, testing, selecting, promoting, transferring, removing and reinstating personnel for the positions to which this order relates, and report to the President as soon as possible its recommendations thereon.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
March 9, 1940.