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The new president of United States of America Barack Obama brought a warm new tone to global diplomacy. He sought to recast relations with the Muslim world, including overture to Iran for new diplomatic relations. He relaxed Cuba policy, opening what some see as a window toward lifting the almost 50-year-old trade embargo. He was all smiles when shaking hands recently with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez , a leftist who once denounced Bush at the United Nations as "the devil."

President Barack Obama's first 100 days on the job exploded with activity on many fronts: the $787 billion economic stimulus, the order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison within a year, a withdrawal plan for Iraq , an expansion of U.S. forces in Afghanistan , and outreach to several hostile nations.

"The ability to enlarge executive power is a function of crisis," said Ross K. Baker , a Rutgers University political scientist. He'll help lead a national conference next month on Obama's first 100 days, a traditional measure for new presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt's ambitious new administration in 1933.

Meanwhile, some of Obama's initial steps on the foreign stage have raised eyebrows. It also isn't clear whether Obama's overtures to Iran , Venezuela , Cuba and North Korea , while demonstrating his preference for cooperation over confrontation, will produce diplomatic breakthroughs or be interpreted as weakness by those countries' leaders.

Much of what American presidents accomplish begins in their first 100 days. Gerhard Peters , a co-founder of the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara , said that Obama's sweeping agenda could make him a transformational president, just as Roosevelt made America more reliant on government and as Ronald Reagan made it less so.

"He is transforming American politics right now," Peters said of Obama, "in terms of reshaping the relationship between government and society, government and business, and society and business. Obama has signed more executive orders, memoranda and proclamations in his first 100 days than any president since Franklin Roosevelt . One notable order lifted former President George W. Bush's restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.

Obama also spent more of those first months outside the country than any of his 43 predecessors, according to the American Presidency Project .

Obama's average approval rating for his first three months in office was 63 percent in the Gallup Poll.

Obama also opened a new era of relations with Congress , moving quickly to enact legislation that Democrats couldn't get past Bush: expanded children's health insurance coverage (paid for with higher cigarette taxes) and pay equity legislation giving women more grounds for lawsuits. He also delivered a signature expansion of national service programs in the tradition of Democratic presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton .

Obama signed orders to expand access to information under Freedom of Information and Presidential Records laws. But while making good on his promise to make government more transparent, Obama's White House nonetheless tries to shape the media message by limiting access to much information via selective leaks by unnamed sources.

The president also has begun laying the groundwork for sweeping health care and global warming legislation. Critics think that will guarantee significant tax increases down the road, despite the president's promise to raise taxes on only the wealthiest Americans.

His health-care overhaul is far from assured of passage. Both face epic struggles in Congress .

Turning to national security, Obama ordered the closure of secret CIA prisons overseas and of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , within a year. He rescinded the Bush administration's authorization of harsh interrogation techniques, and he made public four previously secret Bush-era memos that described those methods in detail.

Obama then waffled on his no-prosecution pledge last week, saying that the decision of whether to prosecute Bush administration officials who authorized the harsh techniques will be up to Attorney General Eric Holder .

The new president has brought a warm new tone to global diplomacy. Obama's campaign promise to open a new era of bipartisanship has fallen short. Lawmakers report no evidence of political impact from those efforts.

Still, the new president has brought a new-media sensibility to the White House : His YouTube videos of Saturday radio addresses, his first "online town hall" meeting, and his administration's creation of a Web site to track the spending of the economic stimulus have made the White House more accessible.

Each presidency has its own 100-day narrative, but scholars who study presidential records made public years later say they're struck by how much all presidents tend to have in common — and how often perceptions of how a president spends his time doesn't match reality.