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Executive Order 9596—Revoking Executive Order No. 9528 Which Provides a Change in the Order of Succession of Officers to Act as Secretary of the Navy

August 13, 1945

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, approved December 18, 1941 (55 Stat. 838), and other applicable statutes, and as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy o the United States and as President of the United States, Executive Order No. 9528 of March 2, 1945, providing for a change in the order of succession of officers to act as Secretary of the Navy, is hereby revoked.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 13, 1945

Harry S. Truman, Executive Order 9596—Revoking Executive Order No. 9528 Which Provides a Change in the Order of Succession of Officers to Act as Secretary of the Navy Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/278099

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