(from Good Magazine via Matthew Yglesias)
I’ve been meaning to post this for awhile, but never got around to it. Click through on the image above to see it at a readable size. It is a rundown of the events that occurred in the first 100 days of each Presidency since FDR.
Some abbreviated highlights:
- FDR: Emergency banking and stimulus legislation
- Truman: VE Day ends the European part of WWII, Signs the UN Charter
- Eisenhower: Not much
- JFK: Starts the Peace Corp, Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Johnson: Not much
- Nixon: Starts secretly bombing Cambodia
- Ford: Pardons Nixon
- Carter: Not Much
- Reagan: Gets shot
- GHW Bush: Not much
- Clinton: Kills a bunch of Branch Davidians at Waco
- GW Bush: Not much
Looks like “not much” is a decent possibility. We’ll see how Obama does.
Ike, did stop wage controls which was huge at the time, adn Reagan’s budget proposal at the time was considered a huge shift from the status quo. But other than that, yes, only Rooselvelt did a lot in hist fist 100 days.
Hey, Truman beat Hitler!