Presient Obama's Executive Orders, In Context
 

President Roosevelt issued the most executive orders, according to records at the National Archives. He issued 3,728 orders between 1933 and 1945, as the country dealt with the Great Depression and World War II.

President Truman issued a robust 896 executive orders over almost eight years in office.

President Obama has issued 184 orders so far in his presidency. His predecessor, President George W. Bush, issued 291 orders over eight years, while President Bill Clinton had 364 executive orders during his two terms in office.

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Re: Presient Obama's Executive Orders, In Context
 

Since you want context, you should review what types of Executive Orders were done in the past compared to those of obama.

Don't just look at numbers and think, well obama didn't do as many. It's what the EO's did which matters, not the numbers.

Much of Clinton's and Bush's EO's were routine. I don't know of any which were aimed at ignoring current law, such as what obama has done with his EO's.

Re: Presient Obama's Executive Orders, In Context
 

Number of Executive orders is not "the context".

Proper word would be "comparison," though even then many of obama's EO's do not compare to preceding ones.