Reagan's Executive Orders A Window into His Presidency

(President Biden issued 80 executive orders in his first 16 ... Most recent presidents revoked just a handful; Ronald Reagan revoked 18. In 1974, President Ford issued Executive Order 11821 to require all major ... On February 24, 1981, President Reagan issued Executive Order 12294 to suspend ... Perhaps the most famous executive order, the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln, marked a shift in the power of the ... In this table we present the total number of Executive Orders issued by presidential term (not calendar year). ... Ronald Reagan (R). Total. 381. 48, 8.00, 12287 ... 2 For example, after Congress refused to raise the nation's $7.25- per- hour federal minimum wage, Obama issued an executive order to increase it to $10.10 an ... President Reagan helped usher in a peaceful end to the Cold War and enacted comprehensive immigration reform that provided a path to citizenship ... Two of the last three Republican presidents — Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush — did the same thing in extending amnesty to family members who ... On his second full working day, the president signed two orders to advance construction of two controversial pipelines - the Keystone XL and ... In the course of directing the activities of the executive branch, presidents since George Washington have issued executive orders on a wide variety of subjects ... Challenges to the resolution include Ronald Reagan's deployment of troops to El Salvador in 1981, the continued bombing of Kosovo during Bill ...