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This was the first State of the Union Address to have been postponed from its original date. [5] Reagan planned to give his address on Tuesday, January 28, 1986, but after learning of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, he postponed it for a week and addressed the nation on the day's events. [6]
The State of the Union is the constitutionally mandated annual report by the president of the United States, the head of the U.S. federal executive departments, to the United States Congress, the U.S. federal legislative body. [1] William Henry Harrison (1841) and James A. Garfield (1881) died in their first year in office without delivering a ...
In years when a new president is inaugurated, the outgoing president may deliver a final State of the Union message, but none has done so since Jimmy Carter sent a written message in 1981. In 1953 and 1961, Congress received both a written State of the Union message from the outgoing president and a separate State of the Union speech by the ...
State of the Union addresses have been historically delivered between Jan. 3 and Feb. 2. With a change of administrations happening this year, President Donald Trump ’s speech in March will not ...
The U.S. Constitution spells it out clearly in Article II, Section 3: The president “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their ...
The State of the Union should be an easy topic for a writer. It’s a televised event; you watch it; you react. But it’s actually quite challenging to find anything non-obvious to say about it ...
The 1973 State of the Union Address was delivered to the 93rd United States Congress as a series of six written messages from February 2 to March 14, 1973. The first message was an overview, which was then followed by five additional messages, each of which focused on a specific public policy theme. [1] In the initial introductory message ...
The 2024 State of the Union Address was given by the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, on March 7, 2024, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the House of Representatives to the 118th Congress. [1] It was Biden's third and final State of the Union Address and his fourth and final speech to a joint session of the United States Congress.