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StateofUnionFAQ.sPubDate = "1/21/2004 2:07:11 AM GMT";
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StateofUnionFAQ.appHeader = "FACT FILE|State of the Union facts and history";
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StateofUnionFAQ[i-1].body = "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.” ";

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StateofUnionFAQ[i-1].body = "President Washington delivered the first such address, his “annual message,” on Jan. 8, 1790.";

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StateofUnionFAQ[i-1].body = "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.";

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StateofUnionFAQ[i-1].body = "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. ";

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StateofUnionFAQ[i-1].body = "In 1945 the annual message formally became known as the State of the Union address.";

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StateofUnionFAQ[i-1].body = "President Lyndon Johnson shifted the State of the Union speech from the afternoon to the evening to attract a larger TV audience. ";

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StateofUnionFAQ[i-1].body = "The address was postponed for the first time in 1986 following the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. ";

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StateofUnionFAQ[i-1].body = "President Clinton delivered his State of the Union address in 1998 just days after the scandal broke over his relationship with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. The following year, his State of the Union address marked the first time a president addressed a Congress considering the possibility of removing him from office. ";

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StateofUnionFAQ[i-1].body = "President Bush used the White House Web site this year to give Americans a behind-the-scenes glimpse of his preparations and offer videos of Cabinet secretaries talking about the speech. ";

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