Blog 3.3

1. Nixon, 1974- 5170 words; Clinton, 1995- 9172 words
2. 1973
3. Both Obama and Clinton delivered exclusively spoken SOTU addresses, and were both not afraid to use a lot of words to get their point across.
4. Carter has wrote some of the longest State of the Union addresses, old presidents and modern presidents combined. Nixon wrote more than him, and Reagan wrote slightly less than him.

1. The vast ability the president to reach out to the people of America.
2. No member of any of the other branches can control or fight what the President says during a speech.
3. Not too much, as many presidents win just under half (about 40%) of presidential legislative initiatives become law.
4. The media, in the form of journalists and more recently television pundits.
5. Many do not watch, as the Super Bowl got more views than the State of the Union Address in 2015.