Obama revokes Bush's Executive Order 13233 on his first full day in office

President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13489 on January 21, 2009, his first full day in office, revoking Bush's EO 13233 and restoring a narrowed version of Reagan's EO 12667 framework. The order restricted privilege claims to living former presidents only, removed the right of heirs or designees to assert executive privilege after a president's death, and restored the presumption that the incumbent president controls privilege determinations. The AHA and Society of American Archivists praised the reversal as restoring accountability to presidential records law.