ssued Executive Order 11063, directing executive agencies
to take action against discrimination in the sale or lease of federal
housing or any housing bought with loans from or insured by the
federal government.[20-19]

[Footnote 20-16: Press Conference, 1 Mar 61, _Public
Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1961_,
p. 137.]

[Footnote 20-17: 26 _Federal Register_ 1977.]

[Footnote 20-18: Presidential statement, 7 Mar 61,
_Public Papers of the Presidents: Kennedy, 1961_,
p. 150. See also "President's Remarks on Meeting of
Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity," New
York _Times_, April 12, 1961; Memo, President for
Heads of All Executive Departments and Agencies, 18
Apr 61, copy in CMH.]

[Footnote 20-19: Executive Order 11063, 20 Nov 62, 27
_Federal Register_ 11527.]

Besides executive orders, the White House had other ways, less formal
but perhaps more efficient, of getting the federal bureaucracy to move
on civil rights. Upon the recommendation of Special Assistant
Frederick G. Dutton, the President created the Civil Rights Subcabinet
Group in March 1961 to coordinate the administration's civil rights
actions. Under Dutton's chairmanship, this group included the
assistant secretaries responsible for racial matters in their
respective agencies, with White House Special Civil Rights Assistant
Harris Wofford serving as executive secretary.[20-20] The group
regularly scrutinized the racial programs of the various departments,
demanding reports and investigations of racial matters and insuring
that the interests and criticisms of the administration were quickly
disseminated at the operations level of the federal agencies
affected.[20-21]

[Footnote 20-20: Memo, Frederick G. Dutton, Spec Asst
to President, for Secy of State et al., 31 Mar 61,
and Memo, ASD (M) for Dutton (ca. 10 Apr 61), both
in ASD (M) 291.2; Memo, Nicholas D. Katzenbach for
Vice President Elect, 23 Nov 64, Burke Marshall
Papers, and Interv, Bernhard with Wofford, both in
J. F. Kennedy Library. According to Wofford there
was some discussion over jus