Executive Order 10515 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)
Executive Order 10515—Amendment of Executive Order No. 10739 of August 2, 1952, Suspending the Operation of Certain Provisions of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 Applicable to the Retirement of Colonels of the Regular Army and the Regular Air Force
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This executive order, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on 1954-01-22, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Amendment of Executive Order No. 10739 of August 2, 1952, Suspending the Operation of Certain Provisions of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 Applicable to the Retirement of Colonels of the Regular Army and the Regular Air Force." It is a direct, concise executive instruction delivering focused administrative or military commands to department leadership.
Constitutional Assessment: Scrutinized through Article II, Section 2, this action exercises the President's constitutional role as Commander in Chief. Early Framers recognized broad executive discretion in commanding military forces during conflict, provided it remains bounded by congressional declarations and respects civilian domestic courts.
Key Directives & Operative Actions
▪941a), and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows: Executive Order No.
Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted
🏛️ Armed Forces & Military Establishments
🏛️ Executive Departments & Federal Civil Servants
Total Words
155
893 characters
Estimated Read Time
1 min
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Flesch-Kincaid
16
Post-Grad reading level
Constitutional Polarity
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Scholarly & Legal Citations
Exec. Order No. 10515, Dwight D. Eisenhower (Jan 22, 1954). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-10515-amendment-executive-order-no-10739-august-2-1952-suspending-the.
Official Document Text
Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)
By virtue of the authority vested in me by subsection (f) of section 514 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 906), as amended (10 U. S. C. 941a), and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows: Executive Order No. 10379 of August 2, 1952, entitled "Suspension of the Operation of Certain Provisions of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 Applicable to the Retirement of Colonels of the Regular Army and the Regular Air Force", is hereby amended by substituting for the words "or until June 30, 1957, whichever is earlier" the words "or until September 30, 1954, whichever is earlier (except that the Secretary of the Army may in his discretion retain not more than twenty of those officers selected for retention under the authority hereof until June 30, 1957, or such earlier dates as he may deem appropriate)" DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, January 22, 1954.
