The president said in my speech in 1970 that did not want the traditional "laundry list" of the State of the Union. No "pragmatism," he said. "I want the idea of expression."
At one point, Nixon put his feet on the desk and said, "Oh, my God. Agriculture of the State of the Union is worth nothing."
He was not the only one who did not like the tradition of 222 years that President Barack Obama on Tuesday night.
It is common for enemies of the President of the Sikhs what we now call SOTU - "platitudes, clichés, platitudes," described one in the last year of Obama.
But many others hate it too. And for the usual reasons - is as follows:
Sharifa: Regardless of the current state of the Union and the heads of the statement that is always strong. Despite the economy, Obama said the same words ("our union is strong") in 2010, saying he "has never been more optimistic."
Stupid: Researcher criticized the SOTU leave the complex language of George Washington - on the reading level of the Faculty of Graduate Studies - the language of children in primary schools. Last year, Obama was rated 8.7. (See this article? 8.0.)
Theatre: "The policy requires that the packages in the pomp and circumstance," wrote one blogger. A festive parade, and applause lines of script, diabetes tribute to the guests on the balcony. Much of the pomp.
Endless speeches in the White House asked for advice and his mother before writing one. "Keep it short," he said. Washington had 1087 words - a few hundred more of these pieces. In 2000, Clinton was 7452. In the last year? 6800.
Other complaints: partisanship, a short answer embarrassing the opposition, and yes, vulgarity,. Therefore, ignore everything that Obama said on Tuesday? No.
The truth is that this tradition deserves two cheers perfect, at least. That - wham! - Tools. You can learn from those who heard or read much on Tuesday. Because the address is:
The evidence of things to come: As the movie trailer, and the State of the Union preview of what will happen. It really is. In the past 50 years, and the heads of an average of 36 applications for the SOTU. Even with a divided government, 41 percent on average to become the class. Ignore the clichés. Look for a policy. As Waldo - it's there.
Announcement of general topics: management presents the main issues dividing the country. No Woodrow Wilson, who returned the SOTU speech, rather than a written message, in part to prove he was as strong as its predecessor, the rough rider Theodore Roosevelt. He did it because he believes in activist government - naming things that have left the Democratic Party, and even terror. Obama also describes the ways in which the Government supports the active, paving the way for the fall of the next debate.
Americans can understand the plan: SOTU low reading today? No, if you think that most Americans, 40 million was made that they deserve. The average American, a Grade 7 level. Four in 10 Americans and difficulties in reading, and talking until last year. How many pieces they are? In short, most Americans should be able to see and read - and understand - a speech on Tuesday night, a virtue.
In some cases, a truly historic document: More than 220 Sotús not worth reading now. However, some of them, and for good reason. Take 1822, when President James Monroe, now called the Monroe Doctrine. Or 1941, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt announced the four freedoms.
Or 1961, when he spoke named Ralph Williams wrote the line that the president likes Dwight D. Eisenhower. Now the line of the most distinctive is the warning that Ike in the "military-industrial complex."
And a laundry list?
"People like laundry lists," says former President Clinton's speeches Kusnet David, who helped write several Sotús.
Why? For the same reason soldiers in the Civil War, which led to this statement, he began to track the clothes they need to return to the cleaner. Sometimes we have to-do list - even if the prose needs work.
In 1970, the letters of the White House is trying desperately to get their heads against the laundering of money from a list of what I wanted. Drugs, in theory, allow doctors to manage the White House to make speeches Ray price of many anti war activists, including: speed. After nights of doping fed two, the price to see the result. Apparently, both the desk in front of him - and against the wall. Fortunately, the wizard of Youth - Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic senator from Connecticut now - I saw him safely home.
"It is worrying," said Price.
When Blumenthal sat in the House of Representatives on Tuesday night, and we hope to be on the basis of decades of experience to consider the issue of Obama's long list of United States. We must also.
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