Graph from 2014
Graph from 2014
That Graph from 2014 certainly doesn’t show all of ex _resident Obozo’s EO’s. The problem I see coming down the pike is all of the EO’s that President Trump is going to have to issue just to get rid of his predecessor’s bad/wrong/beyond useless EO’s. Couple that with the one’s he has already issued and it will look like he’s a piker.
that graph is relatively useless as it does not help understand when the problem began.
One could rightfully as well as wrongfully make the conclusion that this all started with FDR.
The devil is always in the details. I suspect that with both FDR and Wilson, a certain percentage of EOs are nothing more than wartime related items. (WWI and WWII respectively)
With regard to Wilson and Coolidge, I suspect that Coolidge had a lot to deal with in undoing the garbage that Wilson enacted from the presidency.
But there was no major war in the 1900s - except the war conducted by the executive branch against the constitutional sovereignty of the legislative branch. And also the states.