

Johnson acted through an executive order to prohibit discrimination in government contractors' hiring practices, and President Richard M. Kennedy used an executive order to eliminate racial discrimination in federally funded housing, President Lyndon B. As a result, the executive order has become a critical tool in presidential policy making. More recently, presidents have used executive orders to carry out legislative policies and programs. Historically, executive orders related to routine administrative matters and to the internal operations of federal agencies, such as amending Civil Service Rules and overseeing the administration of public lands.
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Presidents have used executive orders to direct a range of activities, including establishing migratory bird refuges putting Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II discharging civilian government employees who had been disloyal, following World War II enlarging national forests prohibiting racial discrimination in housing pardoning Vietnam War draft evaders giving federal workers the right to bargain collectively keeping the federal workplace drug free and sending U.S. The president can use to set policy while avoiding public debate and opposition. In the United States, an executive order is a presidential policy directive that implements or interprets a federal statute, a constitutional provision, or a treaty without the requirement of congressional approval.
