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Length of State of the Union Messages and Addresses (in minutes)
L. Johnson (1966) - Obama
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President
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Date |
Format |
Minutes |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson |
average |
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| 1964 & 1965 not measured |
January 12, 1966 |
oral |
0:50:36 |
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January 10, 1967 |
oral |
1:11:16 |
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January 17, 1968 |
oral |
0:50:13 |
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January 14, 1969 |
oral |
0:43:41 |
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| Richard Nixon |
average oral |
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January 22, 1970 |
oral |
0:36:40 |
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January 22, 1971 |
oral |
0:33:17 |
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January 20, 1972 |
oral |
0:28:55 |
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February 2, 1973 |
written |
N/A |
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January 30, 1974 |
oral |
0:42:51 |
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| Gerald R. Ford |
average |
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January 15, 1975 |
oral |
0:41:00 |
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January 19, 1976 |
oral |
0:50:38 |
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January 12, 1977 |
oral |
0:44:55 |
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| Jimmy Carter |
average oral |
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January 19, 1978 |
oral |
0:46:04 |
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January 25, 1979 |
oral |
0:32:32 |
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January 21, 1980 |
oral |
0:32:04 |
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January 16, 1981 |
written |
N/A |
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| Ronald Reagan |
average (ex. 1981) |
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| 1981 NOT a "State of the Union" |
February 18, 1981 |
oral |
not measured |
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January 26, 1982 |
oral |
0:40:14 |
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January 25, 1983 |
oral |
apx. 46 min. |
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January 25, 1984 |
oral |
0:43:02 |
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February 6, 1985 |
oral |
apx. 40 min. |
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February 4, 1986 |
oral |
apx. 31 min. |
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January 27, 1987 |
oral |
0:34:39 |
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January 25, 1988 |
oral |
apx. 44 min. |
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| George Bush |
average (ex. 1989) |
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| 1989 NOT a "State of the Union" |
February 9, 1989 |
oral |
0:48:14 |
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January 31, 1990 |
oral |
0:35:43 |
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January 29, 1991 |
oral |
apx. 48 min. |
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January 28, 1992 |
oral |
0:51:04 |
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| William J. Clinton |
average (ex. 1993) |
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| 1993 NOT a "State of the Union" |
February 17, 1993 |
oral |
1:05:31 |
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January 25, 1994 |
oral |
1:03:44 |
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January 24, 1995 |
oral |
1:24:58 |
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January 23, 1996 |
oral |
1:06:41 |
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February 4, 1997 |
oral |
1:04:21 |
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January 27, 1998 |
oral |
1:16:43 |
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January 19, 1999 |
oral |
1:18:40 |
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January 27, 2000 |
oral |
1:28:49 |
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| George W. Bush |
average (ex. 2001) |
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| 2001 NOT a "State of the Union" |
February 27, 2001 |
oral |
0:49:10 |
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January 29, 2002 |
oral |
0:47:49 |
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January 28, 2003 |
oral |
0:59:35 |
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January 20, 2004 |
oral |
0:53:55 |
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February 2, 2005 |
oral |
0:53:20 |
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January 31, 2006 |
oral |
0:51:08 |
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January 23, 2007 |
oral |
0:49:24 |
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January 28, 2008 |
oral |
0:52:56 |
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| Barack Obama |
average (ex. 2009) |
1:08:20 |
| 2009 NOT a "State of the Union" |
February 24, 2009 |
oral |
0:51:44 |
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January 27, 2010 |
oral |
1:09:20 |
Data by John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters
Citation:John Woolley and Gerhard Peters,The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California (hosted), Gerhard Peters (database). Available from World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sou_minutes.php.
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