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Vol. 86
Friday,
No. 13
January 22, 2021
Part IV
The President
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Executive Order 13978--Building the National Garden of American Heroes
Executive Order 13979--Ensuring Democratic Accountability in Agency
Rulemaking
Executive Order 13980--Protecting Americans From Overcriminalization
Through Regulatory Reform
Executive Order 13981--Protecting the United States From Certain
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
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Title 3--
The President
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Executive Order 13978 of January 18, 2021
Building the National Garden of American Heroes
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Background. In Executive Order 13934 of July
3, 2020 (Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American
Heroes), I made it the policy of the United States to
establish a statuary park named the National Garden of
American Heroes (National Garden). To begin the process
of building this new monument to our country's
greatness, I established the Interagency Task Force for
Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes
(Task Force) and directed its members to plan for
construction of the National Garden. The Task Force has
advised me it has completed the first phase of its work
and is prepared to move forward. This order revises
Executive Order 13934 and provides additional direction
for the Task Force.
Sec. 2. Purpose. The chronicles of our history show
that America is a land of heroes. As I announced during
my address at Mount Rushmore, the gates of a beautiful
new garden will soon open to the public where the
legends of America's past will be remembered.
The National Garden will be built to reflect the
awesome splendor of our country's timeless
exceptionalism. It will be a place where citizens,
young and old, can renew their vision of greatness and
take up the challenge that I gave every American in my
first address to Congress, to ``[b]elieve in
yourselves, believe in your future, and believe, once
more, in America.''
Across this Nation, belief in the greatness and
goodness of America has come under attack in recent
months and years by a dangerous anti-American extremism
that seeks to dismantle our country's history,
institutions, and very identity. The heroes of 1776
have been desecrated, with statues of George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin
vandalized and toppled. The dead who gave their lives
to end slavery and save the Union during the Civil War
have been dishonored, with monuments to Abraham
Lincoln, Hans Christian Heg, and the courageous 54th
Regiment left damaged and disfigured. The brave
warriors who saved freedom from Nazi fascism have been
disgraced with a memorial to World War II veterans
defaced with the hammer and sickle of Soviet communism.
The National Garden is America's answer to this
reckless attempt to erase our heroes, values, and
entire way of life. On its grounds, the devastation and
discord of the moment will be overcome with abiding
love of country and lasting patriotism. This is the
American way. When the forces of anti-Americanism have
sought to burn, tear down, and destroy, patriots have
built, rebuilt, and lifted up. That is our history.
America responded to the razing of the White House by
building it back in the same place with unbroken
resolve, to the murders of Abraham Lincoln and Martin
Luther King, Jr., with a national temple and the Stone
of Hope, and to the terrorism of 9/11 with a new
Freedom Tower. In keeping with this tradition, America
is responding to the tragic toppling of monuments to
our founding generation and the giants of our past by
commencing a new national project for their
restoration, veneration, and celebration.
The National Garden will draw together and fix in the
soil of a single place what Abraham Lincoln called
``[t]he mystic chords of memory, stretching from every
battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living
heart.'' In the peace and harmony of this vast outdoor
park, visitors will come and learn
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the amazing stories of some of the greatest Americans
who have ever lived. The National Garden will feature a
roll call of heroes who deserve honor, recognition, and
lasting tribute because of the battles they won, the
ideas they championed, the diseases they cured, the
lives they saved, the heights they achieved, and the
hope they passed down to all of us--that united as one
American people trusting in God, there is no challenge
that cannot be overcome and no dream that is beyond our
reach.
In short, each individual has been chosen for embodying
the American spirit of daring and defiance, excellence
and adventure, courage and confidence, loyalty and
love. Astounding the world by the sheer power of their
example, each one of them has contributed indispensably
to America's noble history, the best chapters of which
are still to come.
Sec. 3. Honoring Additional American Heroes. (a)
Section 3(c) of Executive Order 13934 is amended by
striking the words ``In addition to the requirements of
subsection 3(b) of this order, the proposed options for
the'' and inserting in their place the word ``The''.
(b) Section 3(c)(i) of Executive Order 13934 is
amended to read as follows: ``The National Garden
should be composed of statues, including statues of
Ansel Adams, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Muhammad Ali,
Luis Walter Alvarez, Susan B. Anthony, Hannah Arendt,
Louis Armstrong, Neil Armstrong, Crispus Attucks, John
James Audubon, Lauren Bacall, Clara Barton, Todd
Beamer, Alexander Graham Bell, Roy Benavidez, Ingrid
Bergman, Irving Berlin, Humphrey Bogart, Daniel Boone,
Norman Borlaug, William Bradford, Herb Brooks, Kobe
Bryant, William F. Buckley, Jr., Sitting Bull, Frank
Capra, Andrew Carnegie, Charles Carroll, John Carroll,
George Washington Carver, Johnny Cash, Joshua
Chamberlain, Whittaker Chambers, Johnny ``Appleseed''
Chapman, Ray Charles, Julia Child, Gordon Chung-Hoon,
William Clark, Henry Clay, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain),
Roberto Clemente, Grover Cleveland, Red Cloud, William
F. ``Buffalo Bill'' Cody, Nat King Cole, Samuel Colt,
Christopher Columbus, Calvin Coolidge, James Fenimore
Cooper, Davy Crockett, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Miles
Davis, Dorothy Day, Joseph H. De Castro, Emily
Dickinson, Walt Disney, William ``Wild Bill'' Donovan,
Jimmy Doolittle, Desmond Doss, Frederick Douglass,
Herbert Henry Dow, Katharine Drexel, Peter Drucker,
Amelia Earhart, Thomas Edison, Jonathan Edwards, Albert
Einstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Duke Ellington, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Medgar Evers, David Farragut, the
Marquis de La Fayette, Mary Fields, Henry Ford, George
Fox, Aretha Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Milton
Friedman, Robert Frost, Gabby Gabreski, Bernardo de
G[aacute]lvez, Lou Gehrig, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Cass
Gilbert, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Glenn, Barry
Goldwater, Samuel Gompers, Alexander Goode, Carl
Gorman, Billy Graham, Ulysses S. Grant, Nellie Gray,
Nathanael Greene, Woody Guthrie, Nathan Hale, William
Frederick ``Bull'' Halsey, Jr., Alexander Hamilton, Ira
Hayes, Hans Christian Heg, Ernest Hemingway, Patrick
Henry, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Billie
Holiday, Bob Hope, Johns Hopkins, Grace Hopper, Sam
Houston, Whitney Houston, Julia Ward Howe, Edwin
Hubble, Daniel Inouye, Andrew Jackson, Robert H.
Jackson, Mary Jackson, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson,
Steve Jobs, Katherine Johnson, Barbara Jordan, Chief
Joseph, Elia Kazan, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy,
Francis Scott Key, Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther
King, Jr., Russell Kirk, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Henry Knox,
Tadeusz Ko[sacute]ciuszko, Harper Lee, Pierre Charles
L'Enfant, Meriwether Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Vince
Lombardi, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Clare Boothe
Luce, Douglas MacArthur, Dolley Madison, James Madison,
George Marshall, Thurgood Marshall, William Mayo,
Christa McAuliffe, William McKinley, Louise McManus,
Herman Melville, Thomas Merton, George P. Mitchell,
Maria Mitchell, William ``Billy'' Mitchell, Samuel
Morse, Lucretia Mott, John Muir, Audie Murphy, Edward
Murrow, John Neumann, Annie Oakley, Jesse Owens, Rosa
Parks, George S. Patton, Jr., Charles Willson Peale,
William Penn, Oliver Hazard Perry, John J. Pershing,
Edgar Allan Poe, Clark Poling, John Russell Pope, Elvis
Presley, Jeannette Rankin, Ronald Reagan, Walter Reed,
William Rehnquist, Paul Revere, Henry Hobson
Richardson, Hyman Rickover, Sally Ride, Matthew
Ridgway, Jackie Robinson, Norman Rockwell,
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Caesar Rodney, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Betsy Ross, Babe Ruth,
Sacagawea, Jonas Salk, John Singer Sargent, Antonin
Scalia, Norman Schwarzkopf, Jun[iacute]pero Serra,
Elizabeth Ann Seton, Robert Gould Shaw, Fulton Sheen,
Alan Shepard, Frank Sinatra, Margaret Chase Smith,
Bessie Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jimmy Stewart,
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gilbert Stuart, Anne Sullivan,
William Howard Taft, Maria Tallchief, Maxwell Taylor,
Tecumseh, Kateri Tekakwitha, Shirley Temple, Nikola
Tesla, Jefferson Thomas, Henry David Thoreau, Jim
Thorpe, Augustus Tolton, Alex Trebek, Harry S. Truman,
Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Dorothy Vaughan, C. T.
Vivian, John von Neumann, Thomas Ustick Walter, Sam
Walton, Booker T. Washington, George Washington, John
Washington, John Wayne, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Phillis
Wheatley, Walt Whitman, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Roger
Williams, John Winthrop, Frank Lloyd Wright, Orville
Wright, Wilbur Wright, Alvin C. York, Cy Young, and
Lorenzo de Zavala.''
Sec. 4. Additional Amendments to Executive Order 13934.
(a) Section 3(b) of Executive Order 13934 is amended to
read as follows: ``The Secretary, in consultation with
the Task Force, shall identify a site suitable for the
establishment of the National Garden. The Secretary
shall proceed with construction of the National Garden
at that site, to the extent consistent with the
Secretary's existing authorities or authority later
provided by the Congress.''
(b) Section 7 of Executive Order 13934 is amended
to read as follows: ``Definition. The term
``historically significant American'' means an
individual who made substantive contributions to
America's public life or otherwise had a substantive
effect on America's history.''
Sec. 5. Funding. (a) The Secretary of the Interior
shall provide funding, as appropriate and consistent
with available appropriations and applicable law, for
the establishment and maintenance of the National
Garden.
(b) The Chairperson of the National Endowment for
the Arts and the Chairperson of the National Endowment
for the Humanities, in consultation with the National
Council on the Arts and the National Council on the
Humanities, respectively, and the Task Force, should
target spending one-twelfth of the discretionary funds
available to their agencies on commissioning statues of
individuals set forth in section 3(c)(i) of Executive
Order 13934, as amended by section 3(b) of this order,
for placement in the National Garden, as appropriate
and consistent with applicable law.
Sec. 6. Public Report. Until such time as the National
Garden is established and includes statues of all
individuals set forth in section 3(c)(i) of Executive
Order 13934, as amended by section 3(b) of this order,
the Task Force shall publish an annual public report
describing progress on establishing the National Garden
and on building statues of American heroes. This report
shall include, as applicable, the steps the Task Force
agencies have taken in the preceding year to prepare
the National Garden to be opened for public access and
listing all statues either commissioned for or placed
in the National Garden.
Sec. 7. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
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(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 18, 2021.
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