Comments on: 5 Things To Know About The State Of The Union http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/211767/5-things-to-know-about-the-state-of-the-union.html Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:49:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.9 By: akuperma http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/211767/5-things-to-know-about-the-state-of-the-union.html#comment-448621 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:33:06 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=211767#comment-448621 The reason Jefferson stopped making the speech (modelled after the address from the throne in England) was that he was a poor public speaker (which in the era before mass communications wasn’t a liability for a politician). Wilson revive the custom of the Presdient addressing the Congress in person when he asked for a declaration of war to enter World War I (the first truely foreign war in American history -other foreign wars involved invading neighborhing countries or mere punitive raids).

With the invention of radio, campaigning changed and presidents relied on public speaking to get their message across.

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