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
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