The President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity established by this order is directed immediately to scrutinize and study employment practices of the Goverment of the United States, and to consider and recommend additional affirmative steps which should be taken by executive departments and agencies to realize more fully the national policy of nondiscrimination within the executive branch of the Goverment.
-President John F. Kennedy, Executive Order 10925, 1961
The primary objective of the executive order excerpted here was to -