Roosevelt and the 100 Days Term Paper by Top Papers

The paper relates that the first hundred days of a new administration in Washington is often treated as a honeymoon period in which the actions of the new President are judged somewhat less harshly than might be the case later, but there is also a great hope that new policies will be inaugurated in that time that alter the character of existing problems or provide new solutions not thought of or not accepted by the previous administration. The paper then discusses how massive economic issues faced the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he came to office in 1933, a period addressed by David M. Kennedy in "Freedom from Fear" and by James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn in "The Three Roosevelts".