Episode 76: The First Hundred Days?

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🗓️ 27 April 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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http://learntruehistory.com Donald Trump recently tweeted that the 100 days benchmark was a silly idea. He was right, but the question is, where does this come from? Why do Americans insist on measuring a presidency by this standard? It comes from the great Dictator in Chief Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Americans should run away from the first 100 days benchmark like it has the plague. This is not what the founding generation had in mind when they ratified the Constitution.

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0:31.1	mclanahan here are you looking for a great website that gives you history the way it was intended to be
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0:55.9	That's learntruehistory.com, learn truehistory.com.
1:01.2	This is the Brian McLean Show.
1:21.9	This is Episode 76.
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1:51.1	things and again help me out by spreading the word about this podcast okay so the topic for today
1:57.4	is something that's kind of been in the news recently. It has to deal with Donald
2:02.0	Trump's first 100 days in office. And so this particular benchmark that we have where we measure
2:09.3	a president's success by what he does in 100 days is completely ridiculous. So Donald Trump
2:16.2	actually put out a tweet just before the 100 days was up and he said,
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