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Differences in Appropriations Proposed by the President and Passed by Congress
Truman - Clinton
Average
Annual
Difference
President
Defense
Non-Defense
Truman
17.5
-3.1
14.5
Eisenhower
-4.6
-0.3
-5.3
Eisenhower
-1.0
0.1
-1.0
Kennedy/Johnson
-2.4
-7.4
-9.3
Johnson
1.0
-10.4
-10.9
Nixon
-16.0
2.5
-12.8
Nixon/Ford
-9.2
25.4
15.8
Carter
9.8
-32.3
-21.6
Reagan
8.9
5.6
16.4
Reagan
2.7
19.1
21.9
Bush
-2.4
4.9
2.5
Clinton
2.5
-24.3
-21.8
Source:
Lyn Ragsdale,
Presidential Politics
(Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 1993), 329 and Lyn Ragsdale,
Vital Statistics on the Presidency
(Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1998), 359.
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