As the Business Insider explained in April 2017, these 22 pieces of legislation were relatively short as well, clocking in at only 62 pages in length in total. President Clinton signed only 22 bills into law during his first 100 days in office, less than one-third the number President Roosevelt had signed during his three-month sprint and just a few more than his immediate predecessor, President George H.W.
The Post explained, “On Haiti, abandoned the pledge to allow fleeing refugees a hearing in the United States, rather than being intercepted at sea and returned home.” Additionally, “His campaign attacks on Bush’s Bosnia inaction have been replaced by Clinton and his aides lamenting the difficulty of the issue.”Ĭampaign rhetoric, meet practical reality. But the new commander in chief also was not successful enacting some smaller promises he had made. On the biggest of issues, President Clinton’s first 100 days did not produce much action. As Johns Hopkins University political scientist Benjamin Ginsburg explained to The Washington Post at the time, the president’s goal was to make the executive branch, not Congress, “the source” for “new domestic policy initiatives.” The Post noted President Clinton had promised “an explosive, 100-day action period.” On the agenda: a total overhaul of the nation’s health care system and enactment of a robust budget that included middle class tax cuts. In modern times, President Bill Clinton’s 100-day agenda was one of the most bold.
But, over time, passing legislation through Congress has become less of a focus for new residents of the White House. In the July radio address, the commander in chief referred to this period of time as the “crowding events of the hundred days which had been devoted to the starting of the wheels of the New Deal.”Ī president’s first 100 days in office are now seen as one of the most important indicators of eventual success in office.
During that time, he insisted Congress stay in session to tackle his massive economic agenda in the face of the Great Depression – and it did, passing 76 pieces of legislation between March and June of that year. President Roosevelt’s first day in office was Mahis 100th was June 11, 1933. Though the History Channel suggests the term might have roots going back to Napoleon Bonaparte’s return to Paris after exile, according to American political lore, the phrase was coined by President Franklin Roosevelt in a Jradio address.
Peter Hotez, professor of pediatrics and molecular biology at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, joins Brian to discuss the known knowns, known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns of COVID-and whether ongoing research can provide the answers we need.The term “first 100 days” is now so ubiquitous that there is a Pinterest board offering advice to children, teachers, and parents about how to mark the passage of the first 100 days of school. Is this a level of disruption we’re just going to have to tolerate indefinitely? Would anyone really be satisfied with the existing level of COVID risk continuing in perpetuity? And is our healthcare equipped to deal with the ongoing and compounding effects of long COVID? Dr. We do know that the virus is substantially less deadly now that we’ve built up a big wall of immunity, but it still manages to infect most people, sometimes even multiple times a year. We don’t know if next-generation vaccines will be as effective against current variants as the original shots were against COVID Classic. We do know vaccine effectiveness wanes, and that vaccines need to be updated to keep pace with an evolving virus. More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still many questions that we sort of think we know the answers to, and many others we don’t.