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This article relates to comparisons of budgetary spending and policy across the different 🇺🇸 Presidential administrations.

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 * Historical Debt Outstanding – Annual: year-by-year listings of the US public debt, going back to 1791
 * earlier incarnation of that information

To Be Filed

 * 2008-07-20 The United States Has Not Had A Balanced Budget Since 1957! explains how the claims of a surplus for Clinton are actually derived by leaving out part of the debt.
 * Just For the Record by Dwight Meredith: multiple comparisons across Kennedy/Johnson, Nixon/Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton administrations. Summary (all figures are in 1996 dollars):
 * Republican presidents increased the national debt by $3.8 trillion, with an average annual deficit of $190 billion.
 * Democratic presidents increased the national debt by $719.5 billion, with an average annual deficit of $36 billion.
 * The Latest Data on Bush's Spendthrift Ways: Percentage Changes in Real Discretionary Spending for LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush
 * How to Withstand the Coming Bush Economic Crisis: analysis of expected effects on the economy, written for portfolio investors
 * President Reagan, Champion Budget-Cutter by Veronique de Rugy of the American Enterprise Institute