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      "id": 102057,
      "date": "2001-01-30",
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      "title": "The First Year: Assessments of Cooperation Between Newly Elected Presidents and Congress",
      "summary": "During their first year in office, most recent Presidents have enjoyed a beginning period of\ncooperation--a \"honeymoon\"--with Congress. For some, it has lasted longer than for others, and\nwith different legislative results. This report, drawing upon the evaluations of journalists, historians,\nand political scientists, provides a brief assessment of the extent of cooperation between newly\nelected Presidents, during their first year in office, and Congress. The Presidents and the focus\nperiods of the study are Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, when the famed Hundred Days resulted in\n15 major laws; Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953, when two thirds of his proposals were successfully\nenacted; and John F. Kennedy in 1961, when slightly more than half of his initiatives were passed\ninto law. Also included in the assessment are Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and 1965, with respective\nsuccess rates of 88% and 93%; Richard M. Nixon in 1969, with a 74% success rate; Jimmy Carter\nin 1978, with a success rate just over 75%; Ronald Reagan in 1981, with slightly more than an 82% \nsuccess rate; George H. W. Bush in 1989, with a rate of 63%; and William J. Clinton in 1993, with\na rate of slightly more than 86%. The conditions surrounding Harry S. Truman's initial year as an\nelected President and Gerald R. Ford's first year in the presidency were sufficiently unusual that they\nare not included in the study. This report will not be updated.",
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  "topics": [
    "American Law",
    "Economic Policy"
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