On that strange COVID hit inauguration day back in January, when Lady Gaga sang and Amanda

Gorman read her poem, President Biden promised a big and bold program for America.

We'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril

and significant possibilities.

He said it and he started to try and do it.

With a massive COVID relief package already being delivered and an even bigger infrastructure

bill in the works, Biden has consciously sought to emulate one of his most illustrious predecessors,

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the big spending reforming Democratic President, whose new

deal helped rescue America from the Great Depression.

Joe Biden, the guy who's tried longer than anybody else in American history to become

American presidents, finally realizing what it means to be presidents, discovering that

inside him, there is actually a bit of a radical.

The 78-year-old dubbed Sleepy Joe by Donald Trump, written off as senile back last year when

he trailed in the primaries, seems determined to show that he's speedy Joe, an old man in

a hurry.

We're listening to stories of our times and the times of the Sunday times.

I'm David Aronatech.

Today, Joe Biden's brand plans, the new Roosevelt.

Last week, a hundred days after he took office, President Biden addressed a joint session

of Congress.

It was time, remember, that we, the people, are the government, you and I.

Not some force in a distant capital, not some powerful force that we have no control

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