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On leadership, Joe Biden is a role model 

Joe Biden

US President Joe Biden signs executive orders for economic relief to Covid-hit families and businesses in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 22, 2021.
 

Photo credit: Nicholas Kamm | AFP

What you need to know:

  • In the first week in office, President Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement, the World Health Organisation and withdrew the Muslim ban.
  • He also promised to ensure that at least 100 million Americans will be vaccinated by the end of his 100 days in office.

Hours after his inauguration, President Joe Biden signed 17 executive orders, memoranda and proclamations setting in motion a flurry of activity during his first 100 days in office, ending April 30.

President Biden’s favourite American President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR, took the reins in 1933 during the Great Depression.