That is the inauguration. I propose we begin a massive attack on crippling and killing diseases. [applause] i shall propose to this congress a 10 billion nationwide Clean Waters Program to put modern municipal waste Treatment Plants to make our waters clean again and do it now. The president sets the tone for the legislative agenda. Whether or not congress chooses to follow them or rewrite them, the president has given them an outline. Sometimes president has never had a chance, harrison and garfield died before their first opportunity. They came into office in march. So in the 19th century, state of the Union Messages were given in december. When the constitution was changed, they moved the congress up to january and now they are usually in january and february. There have been some miscues. President cleveland sent a controversial proposal dealing with a tariff and the days before we had a income tax. And one of those things that divided parties and created great passions and unfortu
It is also your inheritance and it belongs equally to all the people who we all serve. It must be interpreted by each generation for the own needs as i have tried in part to do tonight. It shall lead us as we enter the third century of the search for a more perfect union, this then is the state of the union. Free and restless growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be while god is willing and we are Strong Enough to keep the faith. [ applause ] members of the congress, i have the great pleasure the high privilege and the great honor of presenting to you, the president of the United States. [ applause ] im done ritchie a senate historian. The state of the Union Message is mandated edd by the constitution in the words from time to time, the president of the United States should give a message to congress on the state of the union and recommendations of programs that he thinks should be followed. George washington began that practice of giving a state of t
Eagle Archives, March 25, 1968: East Lee has been hit twice by floods. The three-year-old dam that broke on March 24 was bigger than original one that gave way at