National Public Radio began the broadcast with guests E.J. Dionne, Mara Liasson, and Linda Chavez who was a cabinet officer in the Reagan Administration.
Guests have obviously seen an advance copy of the speech, telegraphing phrases from the up-coming speech.
Host erroneously states Presidents have come to this room to deliver the State of the Union for over 200 years. In fact, after the first two Presidents came to Congress in person, Thomas Jefferson regarding the practice as reminiscent of royalty. From his time until Woodrow Wilson in 1913 the State of the Union was delivered only in writing. (Source: Washington Post,Tuesday, January 25, 2011.)
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