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The First 100 Days
April 13, 2009
Jonathan Alter columnist, Newsweek
Richard Parker lecturer, public policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Ted Widmer speechwriter, Clinton Administration

Jonathan Alter, senior editor and columnist for Newsweek and author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, and Richard Parker, lecturer in public policy and senior fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, offer observations regarding the early days of the Obama administration. Ted Widmer, historian and former Clinton speechwriter, moderates.

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