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Richard Nixon: “SEC. 8. The Oil Policy Committee shall consist of the Director of the Energy Policy Office as Chairman, and the…”

On the recordOctober 22, 1973
SEC. 8. The Oil Policy Committee shall consist of the Director of the Energy Policy Office as Chairman, and the Secretaries of State, the Treasury, Defense, the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Transportation, the Attorney General, the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The President may, from time to time, designate other officials to serve as members of the Committee.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Executive Order 11743—Modifying Proclamation 3279, as Amended, With Respect to the Oil Policy Committee

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