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To: engineer who wrote (64823)	1/28/2000 2:49:00 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 152472

To all - article about how long Bill Clinton spoke. January 27, 2000 89-Minute Speech a Clinton Record Filed at 11:38 p.m. EST By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Good thing the lawmakers and guests kept standing up to clap during President Clinton's State of the Union speech on Thursday night. Sitting for 89 minutes straight might have been a little uncomfortable. Clinton's final State of the Union address was also his longest -- beating by eight minutes the record he set in 1995. On paper, the speech to a joint session of Congress was 200 words shorter than last year's speech, Clinton said afterward. ``I thought it would be five minutes shorter than last year's speech,' which ran 77 minutes, he said. Clinton blamed the overrun on 128 rounds of applause, although his own ad libs added several dozen words. Since taking office in 1993, Clinton's shortest State of the Union speech was in 1997, at 60 minutes. Last year, the president spoke for 77 minutes. The shortest State of the Union ever was an 833-word written statement from George Washington. Clinton's text this year ran more than 8,000 words. Clinton is well-known for lingering at the lectern. In 1988, Clinton ignored flashing red lights and other attempts to cut him off during a presidential nominating speech for Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis. Allotted 15 minutes, Clinton spoke for 32 minutes. The Democratic National Convention audience applauded when Clinton began a sentence, ``I want to say, in closing ...' The White House warned ahead of time that Clinton might take his time Thursday. ``Rumors of a halftime show are greatly exaggerated,' press secretary Joe Lockhart said before the speech. Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company