Roosevelt's First 100 Days
In the 100 days
from March to June 1933, America "became again an organized nation confident of our power
to provide for our own security and to control our destiny."Â
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In his first 100 days in office, President Franklin D. Roosevelt steered 15 major bills through Congress. This flood of legislation restructured faulty market practices and laid the groundwork for years of New Deal reforms to bring the economy out of the Great Depression.
Political commentator Walter Lippmann was stunned. Before Roosevelt's inauguration in March, "we were a congeries of disorderly, panic-stricken mobs and factions," he wrote. "In the 100 days from March to June we became again an organized nation confident of our power to provide for our own security and to control our destiny."