How each of the last 15 presidents managed his first 100 days
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s action-packed first 100-day office set up a new yardstick for every president he followed. here it is Highlights from the first 100 days Like the past 15 presidents Gallup Approval Evaluation At that stage, for those elected in the 1950s.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He established the foundation of the New Deal by taking over deep within the Great Depression, rescuing the banking system, removing the nation from the gold standard, and signing laws on 15 major bills affecting agriculture, industry, energy production and social welfare.
Harry S. Truman
82% approval rate in 100 days
It was ruled during the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, signing the UN Charter, and testing the first atomic bomb. He also met with alliance leaders at the Potsdam Summit to map the postwar world.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
73% approval rating
He established the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Welfare, ordered all military schools to be separated and gave speeches on the rise in military spending.
John F. Kennedy
83% approval rate
They created the Peace Corps, established the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee, and launched the Pilot Food Stamp Project, but ordered a miserable pig invasion to defeat Fidel Castro in Cuba.
Lyndon B. Johnson
73% approval rating
He led the country in lamenting the murdered Kennedy and appointed a Warren Committee to investigate. Announced the war on poverty, signed the Clean Air Act, and promoted Kennedy’s stalled tax cuts.
Richard M. Nixon
62% approval rating
It ordered a secret bombing of Cambodia and warned of the re-opened bombing of North Vietnam, dealing with unprovoked North Korean attacks on US reconnaissance aircraft.
Gerald R. Ford
48% approval rating
He declared Watergate’s “long national nightmare,” and was appointed Vice President of Nelson Rockefeller, signed campaign finance reforms, and offered generosity to the Vietnam Draft Everders, but sparked Nixon’s amnesty engagement.
Jimmy Carter
63% approval rating
It granted a full pardon to all Vietnamese draft evaders, deregulation of natural gas prices, resumed arms management consultations with the Soviet Union, and announced the National Energy Plan.
Ronald Reagan
68% approval rating
He welcomed the Home American hostages released to Iran minutes after taking office, proposed major plans to cut spending and taxes, lifted the Soviet Union’s grain embargo and survived an assassination attempt that nearly killed him.
George HW Bush
56% approval rating
It brokered bipartisan contracts to end the war in Central America, established the National Space Council, and managed the oil spills of Exxon Valdes, but was given the appointment of John Tower for the Secretary of Defense, which was rejected by the Senate.
Bill Clinton
55% approval rating
She was appointed First Lady Hillary Clinton to reform healthcare. Signed the Family Medical Leave Act. They responded to a bombing of the World Trade Center and a shootout with extremists in Wako, Texas. However, candidates for Attorney General and gay men came across the military.
George W. Bush
62% approval rating
Rounded by a long Florida recount, rejected the Kyoto Climate Change Treaty, created a faith-based initiative, and gathered his administration after resolving conflicts with China over the airstrike of two military aircraft.
Barack Obama
65% approval rating
It pushed forward a $787 billion stimulus package to deal with the global financial crisis, bailed out the automotive industry, signed the Lily Ledbetter Fairpay Act and ordered the closure of prisons in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but that didn’t happen.
Donald J. Trump (first term)
41% approval rating
He withdraws the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement, orders travel bans for predominantly Muslim countries, appointed Neil Gorsucci to the Supreme Court, fires national security adviser Michael T. Flynn and orders strikes in Syria.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
57% approval rating
The vaccine distributed to combat the Covid-19 pandemic has signed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package to recover the economy. He overturned his predecessor’s travel ban, halted the construction of boundary walls, and rejoined the Paris climate agreement.
Source: US Presidential Project, history.com, Gallup, news reporting.
