First Year Requests for New Legislation

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.