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Obama's outdoing other recent presidents in TV and unilateral actions

Friday March 20 marked the end of the second month of the Obama Presidency. Obama still maintains his lead in unilateral actions (Executive Orders, Proclamations, and Memoranda; see chart below). Recently the president has begun to define a distinctive mode and method for communicating with the public.
Read entire article at Santa Barbara’s American Presidency Project