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- 1 2 "The First 100 Days: Franklin Roosevelt Pioneered the 100-Day Concept". U.S. News & World Report . 2009-02-12. Retrieved 2024-08-26.
- ↑ Alter, The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days And the Triumph of Hope (Simon and Schuster, 2007) p273
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