1997 State Of The Union Address
President Clinton discussed numerous topics in the address, including the environment, the International Space Station, welfare, crime and relations with NATO and China. The president also focused on a "detailed plan to balance the budget by 2002".
The Republican Party response was delivered by Oklahoma congressman J. C. Watts in front of high school students sponsored by the Close Up Foundation.
The speech did not get the national attention it usually does because the same evening of the speech a verdict was given in the O. J. Simpson civil trial in his ex-wife and her friend's 1994 murders. The White House however refused to postpone the State of the Union Address.
This was the first State of the Union Address carried live on the Internet.
References
- ^ Richard E. Sincere Jr. (February 1997). "O.J., J.C., and Bill: Reflections on the State of the Union". Metro Herald. Archived from the original on July 31, 2002. Retrieved January 23, 2007.
Watts told his audience -- about 100 high school students from the CloseUp Foundation watched in person, while a smaller number watched on television at home -- that he is "old enough to remember the Jim Crow" laws that affected him and his family while he grew up in a black neighborhood in small-town Oklahoma.
- ^ "O.J., J.C., and Bill: Reflections on the State of the Union". Archived from the original on July 31, 2002.
- ^ Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. "Office of the Clerk". Archived from the original on May 13, 2009. Retrieved April 14, 2009.
External links
- "House of Representatives" (PDF). Congressional Record. 143 (12). Washington, DC: United States Government Publishing Office: H273–H278. February 4, 1997. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- "1997 State of the Union Address". C-SPAN. February 4, 1997. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- "State of the Union Response". C-SPAN. February 4, 1997. Retrieved August 19, 2024.