FDR definition
Examples of FDR in a sentence
A honeymoon period at the start of a new presidency – or political leadership in general – has probably always existed in one form or another, but the specific reference to a president’s First Hundred Days in office has been in vogue since FDR used it on July 24, 1933 (Alter 273).
False discovery rate revisited: FDR and topological inference using Gaussian random fields.
The comparison of the First Hundred Days between presidents obviously gives FDR an unfair advantage: in his case the phrase was invented precisely because he had achieved so much, even just in terms of new legislation, in one hundred days, whereas for any following president the length of the period is arbitrary.
For instance since FDR, the president was expected to hold many informal press conferences in which journalists could ask questions without submitting these beforehand – if they did not do so, the press would complain (167-8).
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