Executive Orders

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How is it that executive orders are only controversial under the Obama administration? Some numbers below. Seems the Constitution allows the head of state certain policy rights and all Presidents have used them, some often.

www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php

Abraham Lincoln Total 48 unnumbered

Theodore Roosevelt Total 1,081

William Howard Taft Total 724

Woodrow Wilson Total 1,803

Warren G. Harding Total 522

Calvin Coolidge Total 1,203

Herbert Hoover Total 968 5075 - 6070

Franklin D. Roosevelt Total 3,522 6071 - 9537

Harry S. Truman Total 907 9538 - 10431
I 504 9538 - 10029
II 403 10030 - 10431

Dwight D. Eisenhower Total 484 10432 - 10913
I 266 10432 - 10695-A
II 218 10696 - 10913

John F. Kennedy Total 214 10914 - 11127

Lyndon B. Johnson Total 325
11128 - 11451

Richard Nixon Total 346 11452 - 11797
I 247 11452 - 11698
II 99 11699 - 11797

Gerald R. Ford Total 169 11798 - 11966

Jimmy Carter Total 320 11967 - 12286

Ronald Reagan Total 381
12287 - 12667
I 213 12287 - 12499
II 168 12500 - 12667

George Bush Total 166 12668 - 12833

William J. Clinton Total 364 12834 - 13197
I 200 12834 - 13033
II 164 13034 - 13197

George W. Bush Total 291 13198 - 13488
I 173 13198 - 13370
II 118 13371 - 13488

Barack Obama Total 168 13489 - 13656...
I 147 13489 - 13635
II 21 13636 - 13656...

Last Update: Data Through January 20, 2014. (through 5 years of the Obama)