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It's a bit late for me to make this comment on the State of the Union address, but in observing various mentions of the clause in the Constitution that mentions the "State of the Union", little was made regarding how much the Constitution doesn't say. It doesn't say evening -- a practice that began with Lyndon Johnson. It doesn't say Tuesday (Clinton's last one was a Thursday), and it doesn't say late January (the late January tradition tends not to hold in Inauguration years). It doesn't say annual, it says "from time to time". It doesn't even say "speech" -- almost all "State of the Union addresses" before Wilson were written, with the notable exceptions of the first few. |
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