The first 100 days of a two-term presidency mark about 3% of the eight-year span, but since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, this brief early window of opportunity has been used to judge a new commander in chief’s agenda.
President Biden s first 100 days are sure to look different than those of Democrats past, and not just due to the unprecedented challenge of a pandemic. Economic challenge was met by greater spending under Barack Obama than by his Democratic predecessor, Bill Clinton, and even more federal largesse will be doled out by Biden if Congress gives him his way. Other priorities have differed too.
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Two crossed lines that form an X . It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office, left, and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, right. AP Photo/Evan Vucci; AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Biden moved a button Trump used to order Diet Coke to the Oval Office.
Trump said in 2017 that when he pressed a button on his desk, a White House butler would bring him soda.
The call button isn t new Obama was pictured with it too but it s no longer on the Resolute Desk.
A button President Donald Trump used to order Diet Cokes while sitting at the Resolute Desk in the White House has apparently been moved since President Joe Biden took office.
New Elmhurst History Museum exhibit focuses on the Great Depression The Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Elmhurst was a base for young men working on local public works projects during the Depression. Courtesy of Elmhurst History Museum Dominic A. Pacyga, emeritus professor of history at Columbia College Chicago
Updated 1/22/2021 9:04 AM
It is an understatement to say that 2020 was one of the more difficult years in recent memory for most Americans. Yet, if history teaches us anything, it is that we can gain perspective by looking at the past to learn from previous arduous times.
With that in mind, the Elmhurst History Museum looks back to one of the most difficult times in U.S. history through the many challenges faced and changes brought on by the Great Depression in the 1930s.
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Jacob Cuenca, a first-time voter in 2020.
Jacob Cuenca started the election cycle as a Republican leaning towards Trump. Since then it s all gone downhill, and he wonders how the party will adapt to a post-Trump world.
The 2020 election cycle was the first that Jacob Cuenca was able to participate in as an adult. And what a ride it turned out to be.
The 19-year-old started the cycle as a somewhat reluctant supporter of President Trump. WLRN first met and interviewed him last March, on the day he registered to vote as a Republican, and mere days before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in Florida.
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