Where did all the strange State of the Union traditions come from?
With all the pomp and pageantry surrounding the president's State of the Union address, one might think its traditions date back to earliest days of the republic. There's the House sergeant-at-arms bellowing out the arrival of the president, as if microphones were never invented. There's the president handing paper copies of his speech to the House speaker and vice president, as if that couldn't have just been an email.
Source: texarkanagazette.com
