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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SeachRE who wrote (349213)	1/28/2003 6:51:55 PM
From: George Coyne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Ah, so you do understand your description. Very good! You were merely feigning ignorance. You are very good at that!

To: SeachRE who wrote (349213)	1/28/2003 6:53:20 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Facts on State of the Union Address guardian.co.uk Facts on State of the Union Address Tuesday January 28, 2003 Facts and history about the State of the Union address: -The Constitution requires that the president shall ``from time to time give the Congress information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.'' -President Washington delivered the first such address, his ``annual message,'' on Jan. 8, 1790. -The third president, Thomas Jefferson, dropped the pomp that surrounded the early messages to Congress, denouncing them as speeches ``from the throne.'' He delivered the message to lawmakers in writing, a custom that stuck for more than a century. -President Wilson revived the practice of delivering the annual message in person. ``A president is likely to read his own message rather better than a clerk would,'' he said. -In 1945 the annual message formally become known as the State of the Union address. -President Lyndon Johnson shifted the State of the Union speech from the afternoon to the evening to attract a larger TV audience. -The address was postponed for the first time in 1986 following the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. -President Clinton's State of the Union address in 1999 marked the first time a president addressed a Congress considering the possibility of removing him from office. -President Bush used the White House Web site this year to give Americans a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Bush's preparations and offer videos of Cabinet secretaries talking about the speech.