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SOURCE: Moyers & Company
4-30-17
Time to Recall a Progressive ‘Truly Great’ First 100 Days
by Harvey J. Kaye
The Resistance needs to develop a memory of how past generations confronted reactionary threats to American democracy.
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4-28-17
What Historians Are Saying on Social Media About Trump's First 100 Days
Annette Gordon Reed, Max Boot, Simon Schama, Ron Radosh, David Greenberg, and more.
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SOURCE: Esquire
4-27-16
The Most Successful First 100 Days Of An Administration Didn't Belong To Who You (Or Donald Trump) Think
by Kevin M. Kruse
While FDR's New Deal may have be the gold standard for presidential agenda-setting, Dwight Eisenhower did more in his first hundred days than change laws—he changed a culture.
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SOURCE: USA Today
4-27-17
Are Trump voters ruining America for all of us?
by Tom Nichols
First 100 days suggest our democracy is more likely to die in dumbness than in darkness.
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SOURCE: PBS Newshour
4-26-17
How Trump’s first 100 days compares to past presidencies
by Barbara Perry and Michael Beschloss
An interview on PBS.
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4-27-17
What’s Impressive About Trump’s First 100 Days Is the Opposition He’s Inspired
by John Dickson
When FDR set the standard for 100 days of accomplishment, he did so in the face of an acute crisis. The crisis facing the country now is the president’s doing.
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4-25-17
Is Trump right that he's signed more executive orders than FDR in his first 100 days?
The answer is no.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
4-23-17
Why President Trump is probably right about the ‘ridiculous standard’ of the first 100 days
In his third radio address to the people, Franklin D. Roosevelt talked about the achievements of his young presidency — the first 100 days “devoted to the starting of the wheels of the New Deal.” Since then, the idea of the “first 100 days” has taken on a life of its own.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
4-19-17
Trump and the history of the ‘first 100 days’
by Robert Speel
The truth is not all recent presidents have much to brag about when it comes to the impact of their first months in office.
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4-23-17
Trump’s Hundred Days Are a Disappointment
by Kathryn Smith
No one expected him to approach FDR’s record, but his debut has been stunningly mediocre.
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4-23-17
What Conservative Historians Are Saying about Trump's First 100 Days
by Charles Dewey
We asked: Victor Davis Hanson, Daniel Pipes, Robert Merry, Brad Birzer, Paul Gottfried, and Larry Schweikart.
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