He didn’t use the I-word once in a State of the Union address that ran on for 78 minutes. Trump is hardly the first president to deliver a State of the Union address in a time of turmoil. Gerald Ford declared “the state of the union is not good.” But Clinton’s 1999 speech offers the most obvious parallels. Just hours before Clinton delivered his State of the Union address, White House lawyers opened their defence of the president in his Senate trial. Nixon’s poll standing bumped up past the two-thirds level after his State of the Union address.

Source: thestar February 01, 2020 06:33 UTC