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Executive Orders: Washington - Obama
Last Update: Data Through January 20, 2013. (through 4 years of the Obama Administration)
Citation: Gerhard Peters. "Executive Orders." The American Presidency Project. Ed. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters. Santa Barbara, CA. 1999-2013. Available from the World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php.
Notes:
1 1789 to 1945 (Roosevelt) data includes "numbered" and "unnumbered" executive orders. 1945 (Truman) data includes only numbered executive orders including those with letter designations (ex. Executive Order 9577-A).
Data Sources:
• 1789 - 1945 (Roosevelt) vetoes data obtained from Lyn Ragsdale, "Vital Statisitcs on the Presidency: Washington to Clinton." rev. ed. (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1998).
• 1945 (Truman) - present vetoes data compiled by Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project, from documents contained in the Federal Register.
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