Presidents have used executive orders since the formation of the United States government.President George Washington had eight while he was in office. During President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 12 ...

Roosevelt broke the tradition set by George Washington by running for a third term. The advent of Nazi Germany sealed his determination to seek the presidency again, despite the disapproval by many of ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... unpopular to the point that Roosevelt’s campaign strategy was simply not to do anything that would distract from that unpopularity. In 1940, Roosevelt broke the tradition ...

Some presidents did not use a Bible to take the oath of office, including Theodore Roosevelt, who did not use anything when ...