Over the course of his seven and a half years as president, Mr. Clinton has signed an average of about one executive order or other policy-making declaration a week, or 450 in all, according to the Office of Management and Budget.
"If you were here on Sunday," Ms. Petkovic told a foreign reporter over the weekend, referring to the day of Kosovo's independence declaration a week earlier, "I would be spitting on America, cursing Europeans, saying, 'You are stealing our territory, just because you are bigger and you can do it.' " The depth of her sadness and anger surprised even her, she said.
But both May and Johnson will make absolutely clear their commitment to carry out the verdict of the voters in their declaration speeches a week after the vote that prompted David Cameron's resignation as prime minister and party leader.
It followed fast on the heels of Mr. Obama's first National Hunting and Fishing Day declaration (Sept . 22 and a week before he gets to proclaim White Cane Safety Day (Oct . 15.
The declaration comes after a week of earthquakes, newly opened fissures and devastating lava flows have plagued neighborhoods in the Puna district of Hawaii's Big Island.
He had made the same declaration a few weeks ago, but was persuaded by Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood to give the proposal more thought.
That politicians could approve the Declaration in less than a week and return to the same room a decade later to spend a summer on the Constitution seems a marvel.
Embarking on a broad campaign to rally national support for an aggressive new policy toward terrorists and the nations that help or harbor them, Mr. Bush began the day under the soaring, neo-Gothic vault of the Washington National Cathedral, where his remarks capped a week of escalating declarations of resolve, a mix of remembrance for the victims and a warning to the attackers.
Still, American officials had been waiting to see if the Syrian declaration would be submitted within a week of the framework agreement, as the accord requires, and whether it would be comprehensive.
Yasir Arafat's proclamation of a cease-fire on Saturday was simply a public relations stunt, Israelis rightists said, echoing Palestinians accusations that the Israeli declaration to defer military reprisals a week earlier was a propaganda ploy.
A week later, the declaration was extended to include individual assistance for anyone who experienced damage from the storm.
