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sunexpress.com and secure your seats today it's tuesday february 7th 20 2023. I'm Jackson Bird today. How the State of the Union address has changed in its 233 years, plus the extinct versions of SARS Cove 2 that are still circulating among some animals.

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Tonight here in the U.S. is the annual State of the Union, in occasion when the sitting president gives

a televised address before Congress outlining their recent accomplishments and priorities

for the coming year. And like many federal traditions, it has its origins in the earliest days of our

government and in the Constitution. But it has changed a lot over the years.

For one thing, even though George Washington gave a spoken address to Congress within his first

year as president, for 112 years, the State of the Union was only written, not spoken.

That's because after 12 years of Washington and then John

Adams giving oral addresses, Thomas Jefferson decided to mix it up and simply write the address down.

According to Vox, Jefferson said this was to save time for the legislators, reduce the pressure on

them to come up with a response,

and perhaps to further separate the practices of the fledgling U.S. government from that of a

monarchy. Some felt that an oral address from the president was too reminiscent of a monarch's

speech from their throne at the opening of parliament, according to historian Daniel Walker Howe.

But Vox points to an article from former Stanford University President Gerhard Casper, who argued

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