But many were from the South, and virtually every legislative accomplishment since 1932, including New Deal legislation under Franklin Roosevelt, had required a compromise with the South's insistence on maintaining Jim Crow and the regime of white supremacy.
His most important legislative accomplishment has been the enactment in 1998 of legislation he sponsored to overhaul the nation's public housing system.
The law, after all, is his signature legislative accomplishment.
It was viewed at the time as a monumental, bipartisan legislative accomplishment.
Passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 was, to many, Mr. Obama's most significant legislative accomplishment.
As a result, he had no major legislative accomplishment to his credit during the reign of Louis-Philippe.
But the lack of legislative accomplishment seems only to make supporters take more satisfaction in Trump's behavior.
"First of all, it is an indication he has a record of legislative accomplishment to run on.
"We're very confident this will be a year of legislative accomplishment," Joe Lockhart, the White House spokesman, said today.
Extending the enrollment period might help consumers but could be politically embarrassing for the White House, which sees the health care law as Mr. Obama's greatest legislative accomplishment.
As important, said Gerard N. Magliocca, a law professor at Indiana University, President Obama surely considered the future of his signature legislative accomplishment when choosing a nominee.
