(28 Apr 2009) HEADLINE: Triumphs and challenges in Obama's 1st 100 days
CAPTION: President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office are marked by change,or, at least, the appearance of it. AP's Mark Smith reports. (April 28)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
((OPEN LOGO OBAMA 100 DAYS??))
((Georgetown Univ. speech 4/14/09))
OBAMA SOT: (Right at start) "I think even our critics would agree, that, at the very
least, we've been busy." (:06)
((Obama striding out to helo))
Busy doesn't begin to describe it.
((Signing stimulus bill in Denver))
In his first 100 Days, Barack Obama has passed the biggest economic rescue plan ever ...
((File footage foreclosure, troubled banks))
... rolled out plans to fight foreclosures ... and buy up toxic bank assets ...
((File health care, smokestacks))
... and launched ambitious drives to overhaul health care and battle global warming.
((File from Obama Eurotrip, I'm thinking him in colorful setting like London or Strasbourg or Istanbul))
... all this while jetting overseas to restore America's battered image.
LICHTMAN SOT: (103015) "You cannot deny that an extraordinary amount has been done, by executive order, by legislation, and by what he's communicated and what he has said." FONT Allan Lichtman, historian, American University (:12)
((Obama working ropeline after event of your choosing))
So after 100 Days, how do Americans feel about him?
GALLUP SOT: (dc tracy gallup) 104215 "Overall, Obama's first hundred days look quite good by historical standards..." FONT: Frank Newport, Editor in Chief of the Gallup Poll (:06)
((File Obama and ex-presidents in Oval from 1/7/09))
In fact, his approval numbers are higher than all his predecessors going back to Ronald Reagan.
((Graphic - AP-GfK Poll: Approve 64%, Disapprove %30, Don't Know 3%))
An AP-GfK poll found 64 percent back Obama's performance. And for the first time in four years ...
((Graphic - AP-GfK Poll: Right Direction 48%, Wrong Direction 44%, Don't Know 7%))
... more think the country's headed in the right direction than in the wrong one.
((File footage jobless))
That's even though the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression is far from over.
((Obama signs executive order -- I'm thinking Guantanamo first day))
One reason clearly is Obama's offered a clean break with the past...
((Afghanistan file))
... ramping up one war, Afghanistan, even as the Iraq conflict winds down ...
((Guantanamo file))
... halting the harsh questioning of terror suspects ...
((stem cell file))
... even expanding funds for stem cell research.
((Hill gladhanding or lawmakers milling))
Yet huge landmines lie ahead for Obama's agenda in a Congress that's balking ...
((Smokestack coal power plant file, more health care file))
... at costly measures to curb greenhouse gases ... and may YET thwart him on health reform.
THURBER SOT: (From dc m smith thurber intv 1610 22) (8:44 from start) If he was king, he could get it done. He's not king. He has the House and the Senate and 221 ommittees that are dealing with all these issues. (:10)
((To Hill))
And then there are the Republicans, who think he's embarked on a vast expansion of government...
MCCONNELL SOT: (2:26 p.m. approx "dc party policy lunch" 4/21/09) ''What characterizes the first 100 days is this administration is spending too much, taxing too much and borrowing too much.'' FONT: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (:08)
((Dissolve Obama running up or down steps of AF1))
((Obama playing with Bo))
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