1977 State of the Union Address
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Nelson Rockefeller
Tip O'Neill
The 1977 State of the Union address was given by President Gerald R. Ford to a joint session of the 95th United States Congress on Wednesday, January 12, 1977.[1] Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Tip O'Neill, accompanied by Nelson Rockefeller, the vice president, in his capacity as the president of the Senate.
The speech lasted 44 minutes and 55 seconds[2] and contained 4,727 words.[3] In the speech, President Ford discussed the Vietnam War, national defense, and fiscal policy issues.[4]
To date, this State of the Union address was the last one delivered as a speech to a joint session of Congress by a president in January of the same year in which he left office. Thus, Gerald Ford is the last president to have given a State of the Union address as a speech in the same year in which he left office.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress Reporting on the State of the Union". The American Presidency Project. January 12, 1977. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ "Length of State of the Union Addresses in Minutes". Presidency.ucsb.edu. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
- ^ "Length of State of the Union Addresses". Presidency.ucsb.edu. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
- ^ "1977 State of the Union Address". C-SPAN. January 12, 1977. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ Peters, Gerhard; Woolley, John T. "Annual Messages to Congress on the State of the Union (Washington 1790 - the present)". The American Presidency Project.
External links
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- (full transcript), The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara.
- 1977 State of the Union Address (full video and audio at www.millercenter.org)
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