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From Speaker Pelosi tearing up President Trump's speech to President Ford's bold statement after Watergate, some big moments in past State of the Union addresses.
ahead of the president s address tonight, steve kornacki is looking at some of the unique state of the union moments from past years and including how the tradition of presidents inviting guests began. joining us now nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki. steve, take us back to how this tradition started. i was there for this one. this is quite a story. we all know how this goes, right? it will probably happen tonight at some point during the speech, the president will recognize somebody sitting up in the gallery, maybe an everyday american, maybe a prominent person, but somebody whose story dove tails with the president s message, with the president s agenda, with the policy proposal, or maybe just designed to sort of lift the national spirit a little bit. where that began, what it all goes back to was january of 1982, ronald reagan s state of the union address, just two weeks before this state of the union address, there had been a tragedy, an air florida jetline
remarkable song. it really started to galvanize the campaign. we were able to get the opposition to back down. as you know, that s how we got it. people came together. you organized. we have some amazing photos we had up on the screen of that time. miss barry, i did not know that you work for stevie wonder and were instrumental in the song. talk to us about how you are there that day. the video we played. talk to me about that time. first of all, now i m a history professor. i tend to give contractual frameworks. the march took place on the day after one of the worst snowstorms in the history of the city. air florida had crashed. there was a terrible snowstorm. amtrak had derailed. that is a lot. yeah, the next day, this is where the march was. the reason i m saying that, how many people were there?