How Roosevelt and Kennedy fared in three months

AS yardsticks go, a hundred days may not be the best way to judge the success or failure of an administration.

A little over three months is hardly long enough to transform society or the economy, while a popular president is likely to be still basking in the inflated optimism associated with honeymoon periods.

But for successive generations of presidents, the 100-day benchmark has been used to assess their effectiveness in the early stages of their administration.