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Youre watching American History tv. Every weekend on cspan3. Follow us for information on her schedule and to keep up with the latest American History news. , i have the great pleasure the high privilege, and the great honor of presenting to you the president of the United States. Im the Senate Historian. The state of the Union Message is mandated by the constitution in the words that 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 should be followed. George washington began that practice of g...

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 pr...

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. Im don ritchie. Im the state historian. The state of the Union Messages mandated by the constitution in the words from time to time, the president...

But in those days before there were Standing Committees of congress, they actually used to cut the state of the Union Message up into paragraphs and create ad hoc committees to address each one of the issues that the president suggested. Washington and adams, john adams his Vice President who became president followed that practice and so they created this sort of idea that from time to time was an annual message and, in fact for years it was known as the annual message. It didnt become known as the state of the Union Message really until the 1940s. In fact, in 1948 there was a hollywood movie...

C. B. O. Projects that we are entering a future in which our debt is so great that our Fastest Growing item in the budget will be Interest Payments. According to c. B. O. Annual interest costs will total 5. 4 trillion. By 2020, seven years from now, interest costs are expected to exceed the cost of National Defense. And i just left the Defense Committee hearing talking about the sequester and how damaging that will be to the Defense Department, because half of the cuts follow 1 6 of the budget and that is the Defense Department and that is too severe and they need to be spread out across the e...