The most famous, and successful approach to the first 100 days on an important new job may have been uttered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the occasion of his election to President in 1933, when the nation was in the grips of a threatening economic collapse.
He set the tone early, gave people hope and motivation for a better future when he spoke into a microphone on a national radio broadcast, “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.”
Along came the New Deal, economic recovery and many of the financial structures that allowed the United States to grow into the global power it has become.