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Peterson, Porter and others trace the first 100-day presidential analysis back to the term of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. In his first few months, Roosevelt enacted an enormous amount of legislation, including a much needed economic program that provided depression relief, loans and jobs through a variety of federal agencies...
...case study, and after the election he indicated that he would do the same with the Carter presidency. Initially, he seemed to enjoy Lyndon Johnson's rapport with Congress and Ronald Reagan's popularity among the electorate. And the first-hundred-days legislative agenda he proposed promised to rival Franklin Roosevelt's. But there is one person whose playbook he has neglected to borrow: his wife...
There are not as many social science classes as I would like," says E. Franklin Miller '94, a joint concentrator with Government. "A lot of Afro-American Studies as it is now doesn't apply to a lot of the issues facing Afrcian Americans today...
...reflection, the Clinton Administration seems to have passed its first 100 days without chalking up any substantive accomplishments. To hear President Clinton tell it, however, his hundred-day-honeymoon has been the most eventful since Franklin Roosevelt...
Bill Clinton, apostle of the new and different, a President who has already proved Machiavelli's assertion, asks to be judged by the toughest standard imaginable. Throughout the campaign, Clinton routinely promised a first 100 days reminiscent of Franklin Roosevelt's action-filled three-month push to lift America from the Great Depression. No matter that the F.D.R. yardstick is arbitrary -- and even foolish given the blessed lack of a galvanizing crisis like the one America faced in 1933. "I think it's been a very productive 100 days . . . we've made terrific progress," White House press secretary...