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DRAFT No. 3
1/20/70
STATE OF THE UNION
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the Congress, our
distinguished guests and my fellow Americans.
To address a joint session of the Congress in this great chamber
where 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.
1.
Occasionally there comes a time when profound and
far-reaching events command a break with tradition.
(1) This is such a time.
I say this not only because 1970 marks the beginning of a new
decade in which America will celebrate its 200th birthday.
1. I say it because new knowledge and hard experience
argue persuasively that both our programs and our
institutions need to be reformed.
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