On Day 1, Ronald Reagan started off with a bang, announcing the release of U.S. Widespread condemnation of Ford’s decision to pardon his predecessor is thought to have contributed to his failure to win the 1976 election. September 1974, barely a month into his presidency, Gerald Ford gave Richard Nixon a full pardon for his involvement in the Watergate scandal that led to his resignation. and USSR were locked in the Cold War, JFK’s first 100 days also saw the Soviets launch the first human into space. Kennedy ordered the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion 87 days into his presidency. What are some of the most notable things that have occurred in past presidents’ first 100 days? presidents would (perhaps unfairly) be measured. FDR’s extraordinary productivity translated into enormous popularity, and he set a first 100-day standard against which all future U.S. He took swift action to calm the nation’s crippling financial panic (cue the Emergency Banking Act and the “fireside chats” that became Roosevelt’s signature) and began rolling out the programs that made up his New Deal, including 15 major pieces of legislation in the first 100 days. In the United States, no one talked that much about the importance of a president’s first 100 days-until Franklin D. When did the first 100 days become a key benchmark for a U.S.
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