The first 100 days full of action of Franklin D. Roosevelt established a new criterion for all the presidents that followed. Here are outstanding aspects of the first 100 days of the last 15 presidents, as well as the Gallup approval ratings at that stage for those who were chosen from the 1950s.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He assumed the position in the depths of the great depression and rescued the banking system, touched the nation of the Golden Standard and established the basis of the new agreement by signing 15 important invoices in the law that affect agriculture, industry, energy production and social welfare.
Harry S. Truman
Approval rating of 82 percent at 100 days
He presided over the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, the signing of the UN Charter and the tests of the first atomic bomb. Also with allied leaders at the Potsdam Summit to draw the postwar world.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
73 percent approval rating
He established the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, ordered all Army Schools to disagree and delivered a speech against the increase in military spending.
John F. Kennedy
Approval rating of 83 percent
He created the Peace Corps, established a committee of equal employment opportunities and initiated pilot food coupons projects, but ordered the disastrous invasion of Pigs Bay to knock down Fidel Castro in Cuba.
Lyndon B. Johnson
73 percent approval rating
He led the nation in mourning to the murdered Kennedy and appointed the Warren commission to investigate. He announced a war against poverty, signed the clean air law and pushed Kennedy’s stagnant tax cuts.
Richard M. Nixon
62 percent accumulation qualification
He ordered Cambodia’s secret bombardment and warned about Northern Vietnam’s resumption bombardment while it is an attack by North Korea not caused in a recognition plane in the United States.
Gerald R. Ford
Approval rating of 48 percent
He declared the “long national nightmare” or Watergate, appointed vice president of Nelson Rockefeller, signed a financial reform of campaigns and proved clemency to the evaders of the draft of Vietnam, but caused a fury by Pardonon Nixon.
Jimmy Carter
63 percent approval rating
He granted the complete forgives to all Vietnam draft evaders, the deregulated prices of natural gas, resumed weapons control conversations with the Soviet Union and announced a national energy plan.
Ronald Reagan
68 percent approval rating
Welcome to the American hostages released for Iran minutes after its inauguration, propose an important plan to reduce spending and taxes and raised the seizure of grains in the Soviet Union while surviving an attempt at murder that almost kills it.
George Hw Bush
56 percent accumulation rating
He negotiated a bipartisan agreement to end the wars in Central America, established the National Space Council and administered the oil spill of Exxon Valdez, but had its nomination to John Tower for the Secretary of Defense rejected by the Senate.
Bill Clinton
55 percent approval rating
He appointed Hillary Clinton, the first lady, to reform medical care; Signed the Family Medical License Law; He responded to the bombardment of the World Trade Center and a shooting with extremists in Waco, Tex.; But he stumbled upon nominated for the Attorney General and Gays in the Army.
George W. Bush
62 percent accumulation qualification
He gathered his administration after a transition truncated by the long count of Florida, rejected the Kyoto climate change treaty, created faith -based initiatives and resolved a confrontation with China on the collision in the air of two military planes.
Barack Obama
65 percent approval rating
He pushed a stimulus package of $ 787 billion to discuss a world financial crisis, rescued the automotive industry, signed the Payment Law of the Lily Ledbetter Fair and ordered the closure of the prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, never.
Donald J. Trump (first term)
Approval rating of 41 percent
He withdrew the United States from the Transpacific Association Commercial Agreement, ordered a prohibition to travel in mainly Muslim countries, appointed Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, dismissed the national security advisor Michael T. Flynn and ordered Syria.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
57 percent of the approach rating
Vaccines distributed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and signed a stimulus package of $ 1.9 billion to restore the economy. The prohibition of travel of his predecessor overturned, stopped the construction of a border wall and joined the Paris Climate Agreement.
Sources: The American Presidenty Project, History.com, Gallup, News reports.
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