Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1933-1945)
Harry S. Truman
(1945-1953)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1953-1961)
John F. Kennedy
(1961-1963)
Lyndon B. Johnson
(1963-1969)
Richard Nixon
(1969-1974)
Gerald Ford
(1974-1977)
Jimmy Carter
(1977-1981)
Ronald Reagan
(1981-1989)
George H. W. Bush
(1989-1993)
Bill Clinton
(1993-2001)
George W. Bush
(2001-2008)
Barack Obama
(2008-present)
TOTAL
5
$251 billion
1
($25 billion)
6
$18 billion
6
$253 billion
$16 billion
7
$56 billion
6
$130 billion
5
$187 billion
7
16
$1,865 billion
5
$1,345 billion
4
$1,805 billion
7
$5,365 billion
3
$2,979 billion
78
Democrats
33
Republicans
45
$8,910 billion (63% of total)
Source: Office of Management and Budget
Verbatim
“Thanks for the downgrade.
you should all be fired.”
Message flown by a banner plane that flew in
front of the standard & Poor’s office in lower
Manhattan on Tuesday, August 9. staffers from
American Banker photographed the plane,
and Fortune later verified that the plane had
been hired by a banker from st. Louis.
$14,245 billion
