President Year solo joint Total average/ month average/ year regular prime-time 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 29 10 0 39 0.59 7.03   1969 6 2 0 8       1970 2 4 0 6     1971 6 3 0 9     1972 6 1 0 7     1973 7 0 0 7       1974 2 0 0 2     Gerald R. Ford Totals 36 3 1 40 1.36 16.32   1974 4 1 1 6     1975 18 1 0 19     1976-77 14 1 0 15     Jimmy Carter Totals 52 7 0 59 1.23 14.75 1977 22 0 0 22       1978 18 1 0 19       1979 10 2 0 12     1980-81 2 4 0 6     Ronald Reagan Totals 15 31 0 46 0.48 5.75 1981 6 0 0 6       1982 3 5 0 8       1983 0 7 0 7       1984 0 5 0 5       1985 1 5 0 6     1986 2 5 0 7     1987 1 2 0 3     1988-89 2 2 0 4     George Bush Totals 89 2 46 137 2.85 34.25   1989 27 1 3 31       1990 29 0 7 36     1991 21 0 21 42     1992-93 12 1 15 28     William J. Clinton Totals 59 3 131 193 2.01 24.13 1993 11 1 26 38       1994 16 1 28 45       1995 8 1 19 28       1996 6 0 16 22       1997 7 0 14 21     1998 2 0 11 13     1999 6 0 12 18     2000-01 3 0 5 8     George W. Bush Totals 49 4 157 210 2.18 26.25 2001 4 1 14 19       2002 3 0 17 20       2003 3 1 22 26       2004 5 1 18 24       2005 8 1 24 33     2006 11 0 19 30     2007 10 0 20 30     2008-09 5 0 23 28     Barack Obama Totals 32 4 44 80 1.67* 20.00**   2009 7 4 16 27       2010 10 0 9 19       2011 8 0 12 20       2012 6 0 6 12     Through: January 20, 2013  2013 1 0 1   2     *based on 48 months in office from 1/20/09 to 1/20/13 (80 conferences) **based on 4 years in office from 1/20/09 to 1/20/13 (80 conferences)

Citation: Gerhard Peters. "Presidential News Conferences." The American Presidency Project. Ed. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California. 1999-2013. 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.