President Obama speaks during an event in the East Room of the White House April 8, 2014 in Washington, DC. Obama spoke about equal pay before signing an executive order banning federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss pay and a presidential memorandum requiring federal contractors to submit pay data to the Department of Labor. (Brendan Smialowski, AFP/Getty Images)
Re: Pointing fingers over tension and clashes at Donald Trump campaign rallies, March 15 letter to the editor.
Letter-writer Anne West repeats an often heard complaint from Republicans that President Obama is acting like a king because he has issued so many executive orders.
According to The American Presidency Project, Obama has issued 231 executive orders in his 7.08 years in office. That will be about 261 in eight years. George W. Bush issued 291 and Ronald Reagan 381 in their eight years in office. Obama has the lowest average of executive orders issued per year in office of any president since Grover Cleveland almost 120 years ago.
Get the facts, America.
Don Peterson, Greenwood Village
This letter was published in the March 17 edition.
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