Was just looking about how many EO the average president signs when that stat number jumped out at me. The wikipedia source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_executive_orders.
Of course, he was the longest serving. But even then Woodrow Wilson is the next closest at 1,803. Notably also a wartime president.
Just curious about what these EOs were mainly about and why he signed so many relative to other presidents.
I answered a version of this question a little while back.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5r2u9b/why_did_fdr_enact_so_many_executive_orders/
In addition to that I'll point to a few links that will do a better job of giving you a sense of what these numbers mean for the sort of light digging you're doing.
https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/disposition
and
https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification
You can see texts of EOs and title/one sentence basic description of what each EO does though the two links have slightly different timeperiods (1937->present versus 1945-1989). It's a better