[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 20 (Monday, May 18, 1998)]
[Page 845]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13082--Joint Mexican-United States Defense Commission

May 8, 1998

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, and in order to add a member 
of the Joint Staff to the Joint-Mexican-United States Defense 
Commission, it is hereby ordered that the third paragraph of Executive 
Order 9080 of February 27, 1942, as amended by Executive Order 10692 of 
December 22, 1956, and by Executive Order 12377 of August 6, 1982, is 
further amended to read as follows:
    ``The United States membership of the Commission shall consist of an 
Army member, a Navy member, an Air Force member, a Marine Corps member, 
and a Joint Staff member, each of whom shall be designated by the 
Secretary of Defense and serve during the pleasure of the Secretary. The 
Secretary shall designate from among the United States members a Chair 
thereof and may designate alternate United States members of the 
Commission.''
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
May 8, 1998.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:08 a.m., May 12, 
1998]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on May 11, and it was published in the Federal Register on May 
13.