Retraction in science. In science, a retraction of a published scientific article indicates that the original article should not have been published and that its data and conclusions should not be used as part of the foundation for future research.
According to the database, Obama has issued 139 executive orders so far. In a comparable amount of time in their presidencies, President George W. Bush signed 160 executive orders, while President Bill Clinton signed 364. By the way, executive orders are numbered consecutively, so you can easily count how many each president signed.
According to the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, President Obama ranks second from the bottom to every other president after World War II. At 168, Obama has issued two more executive orders than George H.W. Bush.President John F. Kennedy issued 214, George W. Bush issued 291, Bill Clinton signed 364, and Ronald Reagan had 381. The presidents with the highest numbers were Dwight Eisenhower with 484 and Harry S. Truman with 907.resident Obama has been under fire from some Republicans for pledging to exercise his executive authority, but he has actually issued far less executive orders than his predecessors in the last 50 years.