Presidential Administrations and their percentage of the National Debt - Part I

Last night I was asked by a nationally-syndicated radio talkshow host to calculate the percentage of the National Debt growth by each administration. Since the National Debt first crossed the $1 trillion mark under President Ronald Reagan, but the economy suffered greatly under his predecessor, President Jimmy Carter, I will be making those calculations later today from January 20, 1977 when Carter took office to the present, and post them when complete.

For the record, the National Debt, despite erroneous claims by Democrat activists, has not gone down since 1959 under President Dwight Eisenhower. Even at the height of the economic boom in the 1990s, the Debt still grew $17 Billion at it's slowest rate of growth. Under the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, the debt grew. There was no single year since 1959 when the net size of the Debt actually went DOWN, though periods of governmental spending restraint coupled with a fast growing economy slowed the rate of growth.

I'll post those figures later today.