President Donald Trump issued a deluge of executive orders and directives on Monday evening, just hours after taking office. Using a Sharpie pen, Trump signed a hefty stack of executive orders ...

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 ...

George Washington signed eight executive orders, while Franklin Delano Roosevelt did 3,721. During his first term, Trump, a Republican, signed 220. Biden, a Democrat, signed 160 as of Dec. 20.