Executive Orders

I find the Executive Order to be a very curious power of the U.S. presidency.  Maybe that's just because I don't understand it thoroughly, but from what I gather the president can make any decree he wants.  I suppose if a president did something the other branches of government objected to they must have some sort of recourse, but I don't know if that sort of response ever gets exercised.  I'm pretty sure it hasn't in my lifetime.  It seems like a governmental power that hearkens back to the time of emperors and kings.

The other day I had occasion to look up an Executive Order, and in the process I found that Google actually had some suggestions for me.  I took that to mean that other people are also looking up these things, and I was curious what the "Top 10" Orders would be.

For your enlightenment, here are the top 9 (Google's suggestion list stopped at 9) in order of increasing popularity:

• (Number 9) Executive Order 12015: Permitting students completing approved career-related work-study programs to be appointed to career or career conditional positions in the competitive service. [J.E. Carter, 10/26/1977]
  
• (Number 8) Executive Order 13575: Establishment of the White House Rural Council [B.H. Obama, 6/9/2011]
• (Number 7) Executive Order 9981: Establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity In the Armed Forces [H.S. Truman, 7/26/1948]
• (Number 6) Executive Order 10998: Assigning emergency preparedness functions to the Secretary of Agriculture [J.F. Kennedy, 2/16/1962]
• (Number 5) Executive Order 9022: Partial Revocation of Executive Order No. 6957 of February 4, 1935, Withdrawing Certain Public Lands; Alaska [F.D. Roosevelt, 1/13/1942]
• (Number 4) Executive Order 11246: Equal Employment Opportunity [L.B. Johnson, 9/24/1965]
• (Number 3) Executive Order 11110: Amendment of Executive Order No. 10289 (which was "Providing for the performance of certain functions of the President by the Secretary of the Treasury") [J.F. Kennedy, 6/4/1963]
• (Number 2) Executive Order 8809: Good Conduct Medal [F.D. Roosevelt, 6/28/1941]
• (Number 1) Executive Order 9066: Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas [F.D. Roosevelt, 2/19/1942]

E.O. 9066 paved the way for the holding of Japanese Americans in interment camps during the war.  Some of the others look notable, but a few are definitely mysteries why they would be popular searches.

So what's your favorite Executive Order?