Your link to the article of how Obama signed an “Executive Order” is a great example of the incompetence or misinformation of the mainstream press.
He did not sign an Executive Order there, and the quote from it about “Our success as a nation” is not from an Executive Order.
It is from a Memorandum he signed.
The link is here.
He signed two memoranda that day.
There is no Executive Order. It is almost always described as that, but it’s not.