FDR and the Hundred Days by Amanda Barrett
Photographer: unknown. Photograph from The American Art Journal.
The picture depicts President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's determination and drive as president. In the picture, Roosevelt is delivering a speech to Congress. After his inauguration, Roosevelt acted quickly to mend the economic crisis of the time. Elected in November of 1932, his first hundred days involved such great political success that presidents are evaluated based on their first one hundred days. Fifteen pieces of legislation were enacted. This is an unprecedented amount of accomplishments. Roosevelt faced little or no opposition from the Senate and House of Representatives during his first hundred days, even though he was criticized from both right and left wing perspectives. In George T. McJimsey's The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he writes a critical analysis of Roosevelt's terms in office. His book examines Roosevelt's domestic and foreign policies in a historical context. McJimsey discusses how prompt the President, so much so, on the night of his inauguration, he commanded the Secretary of the Treasury to arrange emergency banking legislation to start the restoration of a country in shambles. He accomplished the psychological restoration by delivering his well-known "fireside chats." Roosevelt provided America's citizens with courage and hope and attempted to extinguish their fears.
McJimsey, George T. The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
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