Franklin D. Roosevelt State of the Union Address
President Roosevelt in his State of the Union Address, talked about the efforts of the United Nations against the armies of Germany and Japan in World War II.
5,547 viewsPresident Roosevelt in his State of the Union Address, talked about the efforts of the United Nations against the armies of Germany and Japan in World War II.
5,547 viewsUniversal newsreels for Truman’s 1952 and Eisenhower’s 1960 State of the Union addresses, Courtesy of the National Archives. President Truman warned the Nation of the threat of War.…
2,021 viewsA Universal Newsreel of President Truman as he delivered his 1952 State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Courtesy of the National Archives.
1,211 viewsA Universal Newsreel included portions of President Kennedy delivering his first State of the Union address.
4,187 viewsPresident Kennedy delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.
1,331 viewsA portion of President Kennedy’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.
2,204 viewsPresident Johnson spoke to Congress regarding the State of the Union. He focused on the need to improve the unemployment rate and equal civil rights for all Americans. He also proposed a…
20,178 viewsIn his second State of the Union address, President Johnson called on Americans to continue on the “road to the great society,” proposing a sweeping national agenda from education reforms to a war on deadly…
1,446 viewsPresident Johnson delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.
311 viewsPresident Lyndon Johnson delivered his final State of the Union Address to Congress on January 14, 1969, less than a week before the inauguration of his successor, Republican Richard Nixon.…
1,981 viewsSpeaking at the U.S. Capitol before a joint session of Congress, President Richard Nixon discussed his initiatives regarding foreign relations, increased funding for law enforcement, and…
421 viewsPresident Nixon gave his annual State of the Union address and focused on an energy crisis and efforts to secure a Middle East peace. He also spoke about the Watergate investigation saying…
4,668 viewsIn his first State of the Union address, five months after assuming office following President Nixon’s resignation, President Gerald R. Ford told Congress he didn’t expect much applause because “I’ve got bad news.” He…
4,280 viewsPresident Ford addressed the Congress in his final State of the Union address. He discussed Vietnam, national defense, and fiscal policy issues.
2,123 viewsPresident Jimmy Carter delivered his State of the Union address to the joint session of Congress. Topics included the Iran hostage situation, the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and energy…
4,830 viewsPresident Ronald Reagan delivered his economic address to a joint session of Congress. This was President Reagan’s first speech before the House and Senate.
3,410 viewsPresident Ronald Reagan delivered his first State of the Union address. He proposed increasing the power of the states. This was the first State of the Union in which a special guest, Lenny…
2,509 viewsPresident Ronald Reagan delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.
1,871 viewsPresident Ronald Reagan delivered the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. He announced a plan to build a space stations and discussed deficits and the economy.
11,831 viewsPresident Reagan delivered the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. He discussed taxes and introduced a foreign policy aimed at combating the influence of the Soviet…
2,583 viewsPresident Reagan delivered his annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. The speech was delayed several days in order to honor and mourn the victims of the Space…
5,805 viewsPresident Ronald Reagan delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.
1,539 viewsRepresentative Bill Armstrong reviewed President Reagan’s just completed State of the Union address and responded and offered his thoughts on President Reagan’s plans for 1988.…
86 viewsMr. Robert Okun, the executive director of the House Republican Conference, previewed President Reagan’s State of the Union address from a Republican point of view and offered his thoughts…
71 viewsMr. Hymel, the vice chairmen of Hill and Knowlton, talked about preparations for President Reagan’s State of the Union address. He also responded to audience telephone calls. Live shots…
47 viewsRichard Conlon, a representative of the Democratic Study Group, previewed that evening’s State of the Union address by President Reagan from the Democratic point of view.
109 viewsOpen phone session where telephone lines were opened for audience comments on President Reagan’s just completed State of the Union address.
97 viewsThe Senate majority leader Robert Byrd and the Speaker of the U.S. House, James Wright, delivered the Democratic Party’s responses to President Ronald Reagan’s State of the Union address.
707 viewsPresident Ronald Reagan delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. He talked about the values of work, family, religion and freedom. He set out several objectives: take…
6,393 viewsTelephone lines were opened for audience comments. Clips were shown of interviews in Statuary Hall with members of Congress reacting to President Reagan’s State of the Union address.
92 viewsSenator Paul Sarbanes of Maryland (D) reviewed President Reagan’s just completed State of the Union address and offered his opinions on the president’s goals for the upcoming year. Senator…
63 viewsGeorge Condon, the Washington bureau chief for Copley News Service, answered host and audience questions on President Reagan’s State of the Union address and the interview Vice-President…
53 viewsPresident George H.W Bush announced his proposed budget in his first address to a joint session of Congress. The president’s remarks were interrupted numerous times by applause. This speech…
1,279 viewsHouse Speaker Jim Wright (TX) and Senator Lloyd Bentsen (TX) delivered the Democratic response to President Bush’s State of the Union address.
137 viewsRepresentative Tom Foley, House minority leader, delivered the Democratic response to President Bush’s State of the Union address.
234 viewsThe Senate met in joint session with the House of Representatives to hear President Bush’s State of the Union address. The president spoke of the changes in the world in the last year: the…
4,130 viewsPresident George H.W. Bush delivered his State of the Union Address. President Bush tried to reassure Americans that the U.S. would win the war in the Persian Gulf and overcome domestic economic problems. On the…
3,498 viewsMr. Mitchell, responding to President Bush’s State of the Union address delivered a few minutes earlier, called on President Bush to deal with the United States' domestic crisis as seriously as he is dealing…
281 viewsDuring this live call-in, footage was shown of interviews given by representatives and senators in response to the president’s State of the Union address. Telephone lines were opened for viewer…
69 viewsMr. Dave McConnell discussed President Bush’s state of the union speech, and the reactions of the media and members of Congress to the address.
38 viewsPresident Bush delivered the annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. He spoke about domestic issues and military spending in a post-Soviet era. This was his last…
34,464 viewsRepresentative Tom Foley (D-WA) represented the Democratic Party in his response to the president’s State of the Union address. he spoke about the coming recession ,US strength at home and…
414 viewsPresident Bill Clinton announced his economic program in his first address to a joint session of Congress. He proposed a stringent system of tax increases and spending cuts intended to reduce the federal…
3,864 viewsHouse Minority Leader Robert Michel spoke in a televised address to the nation in response to the president’s address to Congress earlier in the evening. In his remarks, Representative…
160 viewsPresident Bill Clinton delivered his first State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress. He highlighted his administration’s accomplishments during 1993 including passage of…
39,715 viewsSenate Minority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kansas) delivered the Republican response to President Bill Clinton’s State of the Union Address. The senator spoke about the president’s health care…
815 viewsSenator Nancy Kassebaum (R-Kansas) participated in a live call-in program. She spoke about the Clinton administration’s health care proposals as they were outlined in the president’s State…
51 viewsSenators convened and then walked to the House chamber for a joint session of Congress to hear President William Jefferson Clinton deliver his State of the Union address.
View in Congressional Chronicle108 viewsIn his State of the Union address President Clinton called for a new social compact in which Americans exercise their rights and their responsibilities to their families, neighbors, and…
35,780 viewsMike McCurry, White House Press Secretary, briefed reporters on various issues, including the president’s upcoming state of the union speech and the budget negotiations. Mr. Johnson briefed…
44 viewsWhite House press secretary, Michael McCurry talked with reporters about federal budget negotiations, the State of the Union Address and other topics.
43 viewsClips were shown of historical State of the Union Addresses by Presidents F. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and L. Johnson.
105 viewsPresident Bill Clinton delivered his 1996 State Of The Union address to a joint session of Congress. He spoke of educational opportunities, economic security, and freedom from crime.
12,024 viewsSenator Bob Dole (R-KS), the Senate majority leader, responded to the State of the Union Address by calling President Bill Clinton an elitist. Senator Dole, the Republican front-runner for the…
395 viewsSix Republican governors were in Washington for an executive meeting. They commented on President Bill Clinton’s State of the Union Address.
42 viewsC-SPAN’s Washington Journal program that covered political and news events through reviews of the morning newspapers; interviews with journalists and legislators and viewer calls.
53 viewsHouse Majority Whip Tom Delay (R-TX) talked about the State of the Union Address, the federal budget negotiations, and the congressional legislative agenda.
11 viewsIn the annual State of the Union address, President Clinton outlined in greater detail many of the proposals upon which he campaigned. He called for action on a variety of fronts by Congress, the states and the…
4,188 viewsRep. J.C. Watts R-Oklahoma delivered the Republican response to President Clinton’s State of the Union address. His audience was a group of his constituents and high school students from around the…
1,130 viewsSenator Daschle and Senator Lautenberg, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, briefed reviewed the president’s State of the Union Address, specifically his budget priorities.…
27 viewsCurrent news events and political issues were examined through reviews of the morning newspapers; interviews with journalists, newsmakers and legislators; and viewer telephone calls, faxes…
93 viewsPresident Bill Clinton delivered his fifth State of the Union address to members of the House and Senate, the executive branch, the diplomatic corps and guests in the gallery. He outlined…
19,797 viewsSenator Lott delivered the Republican response to the president’s State of the Union Address. He focused on tax reform, education reform with more local control and crime and drug…
210 viewsRepublican Budget Committee Chairmen reacted to the new initiatives outlined by President Bill Clinton in his State of the Union message. They stated that the outlines of his budget…
61 viewsPresident Clinton delivered his sixth State of the Union address to members of the House and Senate, the executive branch, the diplomatic corps, and guests in the gallery. He outlined initiatives…
2,659 viewsMembers of Congress spoke about their impressions of President Clinton’s final State of the Union Address.
130 viewsMembers of Congress talked about their impressions of President Clinton’s final State of the Union Address. Representatives Jackson-Lee, DeFazio, Watt, Menendez, and Armey and Senators…
63 viewsWhite House Deputy Chief of Staff, Maria Echaveste, previewed President Clinton’s final State of the Union speech. She focused on the major topics addressed in the speech including health…
65 viewsPrior to President Clinton’s final State of the Union Address, scholars discussed the history and importance of the event. Their discussion was followed by a discussion of the preparations…
94 viewsPresident Clinton delivered his seventh and final State of the Union address to members of the House and Senate, the executive branch, the diplomatic corps and guests in the gallery. He said that…
18,168 viewsIn their response to President Clinton’s State of the Union Address Senators Collins and Frist criticized the Clinton administration for retaining too much federal authority in education…
380 viewsTelephone lines were open for viewer comments on President Clinton’s final State of the Union Address.
41 viewsFollowing President Bush’s economic address to a joint session of Congress, Senator Daschle and Representative Gephardt spoke to the nation about the proposals contained in the president’s…
171 viewsMembers of congress spoke about President Bush’s budget proposals and their impressions of his economic address to a joint session of Congress.
127 viewsPrior to President Bush’s economic address before a joint session of Congress, guests from the Capitol and the C-SPAN studio talked about the event. The program included video footage from past…
134 viewsIn his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Bush outlined his budget and economic goals. He offered a plan that would provide a $1.6 trillion tax cut, pay off $2 trillion…
5,594 viewsFollowing President Bush’s economic address, telephone lines were open for viewer response. Additionally, the Democratic response and Congressional reactions from Statuary Hall were shown.
80 viewsFollowing President Bush’s economic address to a joint session of Congress, telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the speech. Additionally, Congressional reaction from Statuary…
121 viewsIn his weekly radio address President Bush outlined some of the topics he would raise in his State of the Union address and on security issues.
55 viewsMike Allen, of the Washington Post and Timothy Burger, of New York Daily News, joined C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and talked about President George H.W. Bush’s State of the Union address.
76 viewsHouse Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-MO) replied President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address. He said the nation supports the president’s efforts to combat terrorism but…
627 viewsFor sale instead: 168446 compiled program. In his first State of the Union address, President George W. Bush emphasized programs to defeat terrorism at home and abroad, revive the economy,…
12,509 viewsAdam Clymer, Washington Correspondent for The New York Times, talked about the issues President Bush is expected to cover in his State of the Union address. Mr. Clymer referred to these addresses as…
71 viewsCongressional members spoke to reporters about alternatives to proposals expected to be put forth in the president’s State of the Union address. Among the topics they addressed were the…
125 viewsIn his first official State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush talked about the dangers posed by terrorist threats and a weak economy. In his…
3,309 viewsFollowing President George H.W. Bush’s first State of the Union address members of Congress reacted to his speech. Also, C-SPAN’s telephone lines were opened for viewer comments.
161 viewsC-SPAN’s telephone lines were opened for viewer thoughts and comments to President George H.W. Bush’s State of the Union address.
69 viewsPentagon Spokesperson Victoria Clarke talked about the defense budget, the appointment of a new homeland defense chief, and defense topics to be addressed in the president’s State of the…
36 viewsMr. Racicot gave the Republican reaction to the President’s State of the Union address. He responded to audience telephone calls, faxes, and electronic mail.
57 viewsRepresentative Martin Frost D-Texas, gave his reaction to the President George H.W. Bush’s State of the Union speech. He outlined the issues that had bipartisan support.
145 viewsPresident Bush spoke to reporters in the Cabinet Room about proposals due to be delivered in his State of the Union speech.
175 viewsFollowing President Bush’s State of the Union address members of Congress Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Rep. Maxine…
83 viewsProgressive Caucus members spoke to reporters about their alternate view of the State of the Union as President Bush was scheduled to give his second State of the Union to a joint session…
118 viewsRepresentative Barbara Lee (D-CA)talked about the president’s State of the Union speech to be delivered in the evening and the Progressive Caucus' objections to several policies due to be…
79 viewsRepresentative Drier spoke about the president’s State of the Union speech due to be delivered to a joint session of Congress in the evening and about the Republican legislative agenda. He…
42 viewsIn his second State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, President Bush outlined several domestic programs to stimulate the economy and create jobs, strengthen Medicare, and…
4,467 viewsIn his second State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, President Bush outlined several domestic programs to stimulate the economy and create jobs, strengthen Medicare, and…
1,676 viewsIn his response to President Bush’s second State of the Union address, Governor Gary Locke (D-Washington) spoke about his immigrant background, points of fundamental agreement with the…
654 viewsTelephone lines were open for viewer reaction to President Bush’s second State of the Union address.
49 viewsFollowing President Bush’s second State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress, professors and students talked about the speech, their impressions of how the issues were…
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