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Ronald Reagan: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including the…”

On the recordDecember 2, 1985
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. I), and in order to increase the membership of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, it is hereby ordered that Section 2(b) of Executive Order No. 12345, as amended, is further amended by increasing the number of members of the Council from fifteen to eighteen.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Executive Order 12539—President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports

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