The first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency began with his inauguration on January 20th, 2009 as the 44th President of the United States Obama's 100th day in office occurred on April 29th,2009.

The first 100 days of a presidential term took on symbolic significance during Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, and the period is considered a benchmark to measure the early success of a president.

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Obama started his speech by  "To my Republican friends, I want them to realize that me reaching out to them has been genuine,"and "Though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before."

Obama has started  to formally created  his presidential footprint during his first 100 days. Obama quickly began with to foster support of his economic by stimulus package for American Recovery. Obama stated that he should not be judged by his first hundred days: "The first hundred days is going to be important, but it’s probably going to be the first thousand days that makes the difference".

Obama had several accomplishments at the end of the first 100 days including: 

  • Announce Passage of the $787 billion economic stimulus plan.
  • Signing into law the expanded State Children Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), 
  • Signing the Ledbetter law requiring equal pay for women,
  • Breaking from the Bush administration on a number of international policy fronts, including climate change,
  • Spelling out his plan to withdraw American troops from Iraq.
  • To closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp at Cuba.
  • Lifted travel and money restrictions to the island. 
  • Created over 150,000 jobs and provided a tax cut to 95 percent of all working families.

Obama also remarks  the problem related to economy, social and health

Recent first problem is related to health as Swine Flu and Obama opened his remarks  by  giving immediate $1.5 billion to monitor and track the virus of Flu. He also gave  health  tips like "Keep your hands washed, cover your mouth when you cough, stay home from work if you're sick, and keep your children home from school if they're sick,"

Second one is economy  related with financial crisis. For this Obama said that  "We have had to take some extraordinary steps in order to shore up our financial system and deal with an unprecedented economic crisis, and as a consequence we have had to spend a significant amount of money,"

Third one is related to social problem like Abortion.Obama said that abortion is a moral issue and an ethical issue.He also said that "  This is simply an issue about women's freedom and that there's no other considerations."

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