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Uploaded by compukin on May 2, 2009
It started, as so many things do, with the French. The first 'Hundred Days' of modern times does not involve an American president not even Barack Obama who is about to complete the most closely scrutinised 'First 100 Days' since Franklin D. Roosevelt set the standard back in 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression.
No, blame the French official who spoke of "Les cent jours" to describe that fleeting but pivotal period of European history between Napoleon's return to power in March 1815, and his final defeat and exile, little more than three months later. Roosevelt's achievement was to turn a simple number into the yardstick by which every American president is now judged.
He did so by summoning the US Congress into a special session on March 9 1933, five days after his inauguration (these things happened then on March 4, not January 20 as today). The session lasted 100 days. By the time it was over in mid-June, 15 major bills had been passed that re-made the country's shattered banking system and laid the foundation for the New Deal, in a frenzy of lawmaking unmatched before or since in America
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