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Every subject at this tier is asked the same six questions, fixed before the subject is chosen so the set cannot be picked to suit an argument. The others written for this record are Private Money, Reach, Affiliations, The Legal Record and Standing. With this one the base set is complete, so the overlay dives — the ones specific to what this subject has been — are unblocked. None of them could have been started before now.
The same question is answered for Donald Trump, from the same two sources.
Back to the full record.
First 565 days in office, which is the window where a comparison needs no adjustment — every president has had exactly the same number of days to sign.
| President | Executive orders | Proclamations | Memoranda | Determinations | Notices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G.W. Bush | 74 | 180 | 15 | 44 | 22 |
| Obama | 61 | 203 | 70 | 28 | 32 |
| Trump 45 | 82 | 202 | 44 | 19 | 41 |
| Biden | 95 | 290 | 50 | 26 | 60 |
| Trump 47in office | 272 | 167 | 33 | 28 | 70 |
Clinton is absent from the instrument tables. Federal Register presidential-document coverage begins in December 1993, so his counts would be incomplete rather than low, and a partial figure sitting inside a comparison is worse than a gap. He appears in the public-laws series, which comes from a different source with different coverage.
At equal days into term this record sits LAST of the five on executive orders, with 61, and FIRST on memoranda, with 70. It is the only column in the table where the two cross over: no other president here signed more memoranda than executive orders in this window.
Complete terms only, with the span shown and a per-year rate. This is the only two-term presidency in the comparison, so the raw totals cover eight years against four for two of the rows. Both numbers are in every cell.
| President | Span | Executive orders | Proclamations | Memoranda | Determinations | Notices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G.W. Bush | 8 yrs | 29136.4/yr | 942117.8/yr | 13116.4/yr | 28836/yr | 15118.9/yr |
| Obama | 8 yrs | 27634.5/yr | 1227153.4/yr | 25632/yr | 13617/yr | 20826/yr |
| Trump 45 | 4 yrs | 22055/yr | 570142.5/yr | 13433.5/yr | 5814.5/yr | 11729.3/yr |
| Biden | 4 yrs | 16240.5/yr | 747186.8/yr | 15839.5/yr | 5914.8/yr | 15939.8/yr |
Executive orders are the sequential count (last − first + 1), as in the ledger. The other four are document counts — those instruments are not sequentially numbered.
| Instrument | Leader, raw total | Leader, per year | This record |
|---|---|---|---|
| Executive orders | G.W. Bush | Trump 45 | 2 → 4moves |
| Proclamations | Obama | Biden | 1 → 2moves |
| Memoranda | Obama | Biden | 1 → 3moves |
| Determinations | G.W. Bush | G.W. Bush | 2 → 2unchanged |
| Notices | Obama | Biden | 1 → 3moves |
On the raw totals this record leads three of the five instruments. Per year it leads none of them, and on executive orders it moves from second to last. Nothing about the underlying counts changed between those two sentences — only whether the eight years were divided out. This is the same flaw the ledger carried until P1, found again on a different table, which is why the rate column is built into this dive rather than added to it later.
Counted as of 2026-08-09. This dive belongs to the record it sits inside, whose ledger carries the same executive-order and veto counts on the same basis. The use of executive power as a subject in its own right is owned by Executive Power.