<Tr> <Td> Donald Trump (as of May 25, 2018) </Td> <Td> 75 </Td> <Td> 13765 </Td> </Tr> <P> Large policy changes with wide - ranging effects have been implemented through executive order, including the racial integration of the armed forces under Harry Truman and the desegregation of public schools under Dwight D. Eisenhower . </P> <P> Two extreme examples of an executive order are Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 6102 "forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States" and Executive Order 9066, which delegated military authority to remove any or all people in a military zone (used to target Japanese - Americans and German - Americans in certain regions). The order was then delegated to General John L. DeWitt, and subsequently paved the way for all Japanese - Americans on the West Coast to be sent to internment camps for the duration of World War II . </P> <P> President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13233 in 2001, which restricted public access to the papers of former presidents . The order was criticized by the Society of American Archivists and other groups, who stated that it "violates both the spirit and letter of existing U.S. law on access to presidential papers as clearly laid down in 44 USC 2201--07", and adding that the order "potentially threatens to undermine one of the very foundations of our nation". President Barack Obama revoked Executive Order 13233 in January 2009 . </P>

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