President Year Total average/ month average/ year Calvin Coolidge Totals 407 6.07 72.90 1923-24 92       1925 88       1926 79     1927 80     1928-29 68     Herbert Hoover Totals 268 5.58 67.00   1929 78     1930 86       1931 62     1932-33 42     Franklin D. Roosevelt Totals 881 6.05 72.66 1933 81     1934 73     1935 59     1936 67     1937 73     1938 86     1939 84       1940 89       1941 78       1942 66       1943 58       1944 54       1945 13     Harry S. Truman Totals 324 3.48 41.73 1945 40     1946 53     1947 38     1948 31       1949 47       1950 39       1951 39       1952-53 37     Dwight D. Eisenhower Totals 193 2.01 24.13 1953 23     1954 33       1955 19       1956 24       1957 25       1958 21     1959 31     1960-61 17     John F. Kennedy Totals 65 1.91 22.89 1961 19       1962 27     1963 19     Lyndon B. Johnson Totals 135 2.18 26.16 1963-64 35       1965 17     1966 41       1967 22     1968-69 20     Richard Nixon Totals 39 0.59 7.03   1969 8       1970 6     1971 9     1972 7     1973 7       1974 2     Gerald R. Ford Totals 40 1.36 16.32   1974 6     1975 19     1976-77 15     Jimmy Carter Totals 59 1.23 14.75 1977 22       1978 19       1979 12     1980-81 6     Ronald Reagan Totals 46 0.48 5.75 1981 6       1982 8       1983 7       1984 5       1985 6     1986 7     1987 3     1988-89 4     George Bush Totals 137 2.85 34.25   1989 31       1990 36     1991 42     1992-93 28     William J. Clinton Totals 193 2.01 24.13 1993 38       1994 45       1995 28       1996 22       1997 21     1998 13     1999 18     2000-01 8     George W. Bush Totals 209 2.18 26.13 2001 19       2002 20       2003 26       2004 24       2005 32     2006 29     2007 30     2008-09 29     Barack Obama Totals 17 TBD TBD Through: July 1, 2009  2009 17 TBD TBD

Citation: Gerhard Peters. "Presidential News Conferences." The American Presidency Project. Ed. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California. 1999-2009. Available from the World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/newsconferences.php.

Data Sources:
• Coolidge data from Lyn Ragsdale, Vital Statistics on the Presidency (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1998), 170-71.
• Roosevelt - present data compiled by Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project.