This is the full text of President Richard Nixon’s 1970 State of the Union Address.
This was Nixon’s first State of the Union Address, delivered one year and two days after he took office.
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Nixon’s 1970 State of the Union Address to Congress.
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, my colleagues in the Congress, our distinguished guests and my fellow Americans:
To address a joint session of the Congress in this great Chamber in which I was once privileged to serve is an honor for which I am deeply grateful.
The State of the Union Address is traditionally an occasion for a lengthy and detailed account by the President of what he has accomplished in the past, what he wants the Congress to do in the future, and, in an election year, to lay the basis for the political issues which might be decisive in the fall. [Read more…]