Executive Order 9643 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)
Executive Order 9643—Transferring Certain Personnel, Records, Property, and Funds of the Department of Commerce, With Resepct to Surplus Property, to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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This executive order, signed by President Harry S Truman on 1945-10-19, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Transferring Certain Personnel, Records, Property, and Funds of the Department of Commerce, With Resepct to Surplus Property, to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation." 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
▪Such measures and dispositions as may be determined by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to be necessary to effectuate the transfers and termination provided for in this order shall be carried out in such manner as the Director may direct and by such agencies as he may designate.
Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted
🏛️ Executive Departments & Federal Civil Servants
Total Words
232
1,474 characters
Estimated Read Time
1 min
@ 200 words / min
Flesch-Kincaid
35.6
Post-Grad reading level
Constitutional Polarity
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Framers' Alignment index
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Scholarly & Legal Citations
Exec. Order No. 9643, Harry S Truman (Oct 19, 1945). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-9643-transferring-certain-personnel-records-property-and-funds-the.
Official Document Text
Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)
By virtue of authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes, including Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, and as President of the United States, and consonant with the designation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation by the Surplus Property Administrator pursuant to the provisions of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended, as the disposal agency for certain categories of surplus property for which the Department of Commerce has heretofore been the disposal agency, it is hereby ordered, effective as the opening of business November 5, 1945, that the Office of Surplus Property in the Department of Commerce is hereby terminated, and that all personnel, records, property, contracts, obligations, and funds of the Office, together with so much of the other personnel, records, property, contracts, obligations, and funds of the Department of Commerce as relates primarily to the surplus property disposal functions placed under the Reconstruction Finance Corporation by the aforesaid designation, are hereby transferred to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for use in connection with such functions. Such measures and dispositions as may be determined by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to be necessary to effectuate the transfers and termination provided for in this order shall be carried out in such manner as the Director may direct and by such agencies as he may designate. HARRY S. TRUMAN THE WHITE HOUSE, October 19, 1945
