President Donald Trump made history during his first 100 days in office, surpassing former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s record for the number of executive orders issued during that same ...

The previous record was held by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who issued 99 executive orders during his first 100 days in 1933, primarily to combat the Great Depression, according to the ...

Roosevelt's 1942 order authorizing the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, Truman's 1948 executive order desegregating the U.S. military and President Barack Obama's 2012 ...

Roosevelt did not transform the United States with a series of executive orders; he did so with a series of laws. Roosevelt was chief legislator as much as he was chief executive. “He wrote ...

An aide holds executive orders to be signed by President Trump at the White House on Monday. Executive orders need not be approved — and cannot simply be overturned — by Congress, according to ...