President George H.W. Bush delivers his 1990 State of the Union Address. President Bush talked about the fall of the Berlin wall and the restoration of democracy to Panama.

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With President Barack Obama set to deliver his State of the Union address in a few days, American History TV is showing a few past State of the Union addresses. President George W. Bush delivered his first State of the Union Address on January 29th, 2002, just a few months after the terrorist attacks of September 11th.

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Former presidential speechwriters talk about writing the State of the Union Address. They discuss the various stages of writing the speech, numbers of drafts, Presidential involvement and their views on the importance of the State of the Union Address.

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With President Barack Obama set to deliver his State of the Union address in a few days, American History TV is showing a few past State of the Union addresses. On January 24th, 1995, President Bill Clinton delivered the State of the Union Address just a few months after the 1994 midterm elections swung control of the House of Representatives to the Republicans.

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President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s 1964 State of the Union Address was delivered just a little over a month after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This speech is being shown courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.

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As President Obama prepares for his address to Congress, former White House speechwriters talk about the art of crafting a "State of the Union."

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CATO Institute scholars presented the Libertarian State of the Union. They discussed the state of the Libertarian movement and look at the tax, economy and immigration issues that Congress will be debating this year.  

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Metropolitan State University professor Douglas Rossinow teaches a class on the Iran-Contra affair, which took place in the mid-1980s during the Reagan Administration. The Iran-Contra affair stems from Reagan administration officials funding the Contras - who were fighting against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua - with money from the sale of arms to Iran. The arms were being sold to Iran in the hope of gaining the release of American hostages held in Lebanon - hence the reason the affair is sometimes called as the “arm-for-hostages” scandal. Metropolitan State University is in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Forty years ago, in May 1973, a U.S. Senate Select Committee began its nationally televised hearings on Watergate. James McCord was one of the five men arrested a year earlier attempting to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. McCord was security director for the 1972 Committee to Re-elect President Nixon, and was convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in January 1973. In this portion, Committee Chair Sam Ervin questioned McCord about his January 1973 conversation with Jack Caulfield, a former White House aide.

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Mary Elizabeth Bowser was a former slave who became a Union spy in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. She was part of a pro-Union underground spy ring run by Elizabeth Van Lew, the daughter of a prominent Richmond citizen. In this program, authors Elizabeth Varon and Lois Leveen talk about the life and story of Ms. Bowser, as well as her relationship with Ms. Van Lew. The two authors also discuss how they wrote and researched their books. The event took place at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond.

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