GOOD Sheet: The First 100 Days

“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people,” Franklin D. Roosevelt told supporters in 1932 while accepting the presidential nomination. When he took office the following year, he spent his first 100 days enacting a dizzying number of reforms designed to stabilize an economically depressed nation. Since then, a president’s first 100 days have been an indicator of what he is able to accomplish. In January 2009, the clock starts again.

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This exploration of the president’s first 100 days is a collaboration between GOOD and Atley G. Kasky. GOOD Sheet no. 009 is available in print in Starbucks from November 5-12.