First Year Requests for New Legislation

Truman II - Clinton

President	Year	Jan-Mar	Apr-June	July-Sept	Oct-Dec	Total
Truman II	1949	68%	0%	32%	0%	41%
Eisenhower I	1953	52	41	7	0	27
Eisenhower II	1957	51	46	0	3	39
Kennedy	1961	76	24	0	0	25
Johnson	1965	94	6	0	0	34
Nixon I	1969	12	41	41	6	17
Nixon II	1973	40	30	15	15	20
Ford	1975	--	--	28	72	18
Carter	1977	33	57	10	0	21
Reagan I	1981	63	18	19	0	8
Reagan II	1985	31	61	0	0	7
Bush	1989	79	0	21	0	24
Clinton I	1993	52	0	48	0	30
Clinton II	1997	100	0	0	0	26

Source(s)

(1961-1977) Paul Light, The Presidential Agenda, rev. ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), 45.
(1949-1957 & 1981-1997) Lyn Ragsdale, Vital Statistics on the Presidency (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1998), 384.