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Obama’s first 100 days

Obama’s first 100 days

By Cleve Jones and Jeremy Lemer

Published: April 23 2009 19:21 | Last updated: April 29 2009 08:51

On January 20, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. Few presidents have taken office facing such high expectations and daunting challenges.

In this interactive graphic we chart Mr Obama’s first 100 days in office, the honeymoon period where he was expected to spend some of the political capital his historic electoral victory had amassed.

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