Brookings institution scholars examine the administrations achievements and challenges. This runs 90 minutes. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this web mar on Joe Bidens first 100 days. Let me start by saying that the one and only reason that we mark the 100 days of a presidency is because of franklin roosevelt, president roosevelt. Theres no statutory or constitutional significance. Franklin roosevelts 100 days is without equal in the 20th century. 1943 was the death of the great depression. Inaugural address is responsible for the phrase we have nothing to fear but fear itself and less than two weeks after that, he gave the first of many fireside chats, explaining in simple terms what was happening and how he would fix it. Roosevelts mastery of rhetoric and new medium of radio were not what made him remembered for his first 100 days but bold legislation, legislative and regulatory, that set the bar high. He declared a bank holiday, which stopped the disastrous run on the banks. He
alternatives to this either an open war or creeping russian occupation. our correspondentjenny hill is in moldova s capital, chisinau, and has more on the summit. today was largely about symbolism, as is often the case with this kind of summit. it s no accident that those european leaders chose to meet here in moldova. of all of ukraine s neighbours, it arguably has the most reason to feel vulnerable in the wake of vladimir putin s full scale invasion of ukraine. moldova is a former soviet state. it s wedged between ukraine and the eu. for many years it s been heavily dependent on moscow forfuel, forfinance, and whilst its government leans heavily to the west, it s desperate to join the eu, there is a region, transnistria, which is in the hands of pro russian separatists. there are still russian troops there. it s a hangover from the soviet era and the way in which it ended in this part of the world. so for those european leaders who gathered in that rural castle today was
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