Crises In A President’s First Year Are Overwhelmingly Foreign Or Military

Number of new and existing crises in the first year of office, from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to President Barack Obama.

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— Crisis is defined by Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary as: “an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is pending, especially one with the distinct possibility of a highly undesirable outcome.”

Source: Miller Center at the University of Virginia, First Year Project

Credit: Brittany Mayes/NPR