Richard Nixon actually said...

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is hereby designated and empowered to exercise, without approval, ratification, or other action by the President, the functions vested in the President.

Context

Executive Order 11732—Delegating Certain Authority of the President to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

07/29/1973

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