Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization

File:(Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization exhibit at a local civil defense fair.) - NARA - 542102.tif at an Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization fair exhibit, 1960]]

The Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, created in 1958 originally as Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization, was an office of the Executive Office of the President of the United States which consolidated the functions of the existing Office of Defense Mobilization and the Federal Civil Defense Administration.{{cite web |url=https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/396.html |title=Records of the Office of Emergency Preparedness | National Archives |date= |series= |publisher=The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration |access-date=7 April 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-72/pdf/STATUTE-72-Pg861.pdf |title=Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 Amendment of 1958 ~ P.L. 85-763 |date=August 26, 1958 |series=72 Stat. 861 ~ Senate Bill 4059 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office}}{{cite web |url= http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=11103 |title= Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Letter to Leo A. Hoegh, Administrator of Federal Civil Defense, on His Becoming Director, Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization.," June 24, 1958 |author1=Peters, Gerhard |author2=Woolley, John T |publisher = University of California - Santa Barbara |work= The American Presidency Project}} The civil defense functions of the office were transferred to the Department of Defense's Office of Civil Defense from August 1, 1961. With its remaining functions, the office was re-designated as the Office of Emergency Planning from September 22, 1961.{{cite book

|title=The United States Government Manual

|year=1995

|quote=Mobilization, Office of Defense and Civilian Established by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1958

|url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GOVMAN-1995-07-01/html/GOVMAN-1995-07-01-Pg791.htm}} It eventually was renamed the Office of Emergency Preparedness from October 21, 1968, and abolished on July 1, 1973.