Final answer:
Special Orders may contain policy, directives or procedures, or they may be the Executive Orders.
Step-by-step explanation:
Special Orders may contain policy, directives or procedures, or they may be the Executive Orders. Executive orders are directives to administrators in the executive branch on how to implement legislation. Courts treat them as equivalent to laws.
Some famous executive orders include Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Franklin D. Roosevelt's closing the banks to avoid runs on deposits and his authorizing internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, Truman's desegregation of the armed forces, Kennedy's establishment of the Peace Corps, and Nixon's creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.