re: My experience with Executive Orders

The way Reagan did it was, he took a black top project already low bided to a contractor, delayed it a few months into next year. Took the money appropriated for this year and reallocated it to the Vicksburg Corp of Engineers to dredge a canal and open up a lock and dam by the Corps to get the water off the flooded area. An Executive Order did those changes for an emergency. That type of change was what I was always told an E.O. was for. I heard him tell the Colonel of the Vicksburg Corps to do that and the letter would be forthcoming when he flew back to Washington.