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Harry Truman: This order supersedes all prior Executive orders to the extent that they are in conflict with this order.

On the recordDecember 25, 1947
This order supersedes all prior Executive orders to the extent that they are in conflict with this order.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Executive Order 9913—Terminating the Office of Scientific Research and Development and Providing for the Completion of Its...

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