For 90 years, it has become a ritual in American politics to pause and compare the first 100 days of a new presidency to the record of early presidential accomplishments set by former President ...

Major Acts As with Lincoln, the other great wartime president, it is difficult to adequately sum up the achievements of Franklin Roosevelt. Like Lincoln, he was a canny and powerful politician who ...

Ever since the government-changing administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a president’s first 100 days ... His rat-a-tat executive orders and his flood-the-zone approach to major policy proposals ...

Franklin Delano ... Roosevelt switched from “Dr. New Deal” to “Dr. Win the War.” Diplomatic challenges meant meeting with Churchill and Stalin in order to set the parameters of both wartime ...

Since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s earthshaking first 100 ... Perhaps more crucially, Congress came together to pass more than a dozen major laws in Roosevelt’s first 100 days, reflecting the ...

It all started with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... favorable Congress gave Roosevelt the political environment to move quickly. The 73rd Congress passed 15 major pieces of legislation ...