ASF: 83 Years of executive orders

Stephanie Frey

Columnist John Rochford argues that “the left is coming for all firearms,” and in doing so, the Democrats will be violating the Constitution. Rochford refers to candidates in the third Democratic debate who discussed their views on gun rights.

Madison Ward
January 21, 2016

Executive orders have been a huge point of criticism during the Obama administration, and also an area that candidates fighting for election this year use as a way to put down Obama’s work as president. To put Obama’s executive order amounts into perspective, here are the number of executive orders issued by past presidents starting with President Franklin Roosevelt.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) 3,728

Harry Truman (1945-1953) 896

Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961) 486

John Kennedy (1961-1963) 214

Lyndon Johnson (1963-1969) 324

Richard Nixon (1969-1974) 346

Gerald Ford (1974-1977) 169

Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) 320

Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) 381

George Bush (1989-1993) 166

William Clinton (1993-2001) 364

George W. Bush (2001-2009) 291