Scrawled Shortcuts through the Research Maze
Comparing President Obama’s first 100 days to his predecessors’? Look here:
A New President Takes Command: FDR's First Hundred Days
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s aactions in his first 100 days in office are the standard by which all other successive administrations have been judged. The New York Historical Society exhibit sums those days up in images:
https://www.nyhistory.org/web/default.php?section=exhibits_collections&page=exhibit_detail&id=4630500
Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency
Check out “Baird, Zöe” (Clinton’s first nominee for Attorney General), “Gays in the Military” (for “Don’t ask, don’t tell”), and Welfare Reform, as well as Waco.
Also find background on the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Reference 973.929 L668e
President Bush's First 100 Days
PBS’s NewsHour gave an elaborate take on George W. Bush’s first hundred days, with sidebars on George H.W. Bush and Clinton’s first 100 also.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/100days/
Guide to the Presidency
Congressional Quarterly Press, expert on Washington politics, explains “The Elections and Taking Office,” with a long-view historical analysis back to 1787. Also see “The President and the News Media,” and “Public Support & Opinion.”
Reference 352.230973 G946g
Presidential Work During the First 100 Days
How long a workday do new presidents have? Who do they talk to and how? From the White House Transition Project, a historical profile of what and how the presidents have worked in their first hundred days.http://whitehousetransitionproject.org/resources/100%20Days/WHTP%202009-04%20100%20Days-b.pdf
Newspaper Source
Use this & other news databases to look for media coverage of the 100 days.
http://www.drew.edu/depts/library/er-subject.aspx?category=News%20Resources