- Freeze salaries of top WH employees
- Ban on lobbyists for 2 years
- Ban on gifts
- New transparency rules for Freedom of Information Act requests
- Farcical Guantanamo Bay "trials" put on hold
- Draft order to close Guantanamo Bay released
- Discussion with Sec Def to end the war in Iraq within 16 months held
- Calls to every Middle East head of state
- Nomination of George Mitchell as special Middle East Envoy
- Directing agencies to tap into knowledge of "ordinary Americans" to find answers (whatever that means)
- New White House web site (whitehouse.gov) with list of all presidential executive orders
- $800 billion fiscal stimulus plan sent to Congress
Not bad for a first day, I think.
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