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  Length of State of the Union Messages and Addresses (in minutes)
  
L. Johnson (1966) - Obama

President
Date Format Minutes
Lyndon B. Johnson

average

 
1964 & 1965 not measured January 12, 1966 oral 0:50:36
January 10, 1967 oral 1:11:16
January 17, 1968 oral 0:50:13
January 14, 1969 oral 0:43:41
Richard Nixon average oral  
January 22, 1970 oral 0:36:40
  January 22, 1971 oral 0:33:17
  January 20, 1972 oral 0:28:55
February 2, 1973 written N/A
January 30, 1974 oral 0:42:51
Gerald R. Ford

average

 
  January 15, 1975 oral 0:41:00
January 19, 1976 oral 0:50:38
January 12, 1977 oral 0:44:55
Jimmy Carter average oral  
  January 19, 1978 oral 0:46:04
  January 25, 1979 oral 0:32:32
January 21, 1980 oral 0:32:04
January 16, 1981 written N/A
Ronald Reagan

average (ex. 1981)

 
1981 NOT a "State of the Union" February 18, 1981 oral not measured
January 26, 1982 oral 0:40:14
January 25, 1983 oral apx. 46 min.
January 25, 1984 oral 0:43:02
  February 6, 1985 oral apx. 40 min.
  February 4, 1986 oral apx. 31 min.
  January 27, 1987 oral 0:34:39
January 25, 1988 oral apx. 44 min.
George Bush average (ex. 1989)  
1989 NOT a "State of the Union" February 9, 1989 oral 0:48:14
  January 31, 1990 oral 0:35:43
January 29, 1991 oral apx. 48 min.
January 28, 1992 oral 0:51:04
William J. Clinton

average (ex. 1993)

 
1993 NOT a "State of the Union" February 17, 1993 oral 1:05:31
  January 25, 1994 oral 1:03:44
  January 24, 1995 oral 1:24:58
  January 23, 1996 oral 1:06:41
  February 4, 1997 oral 1:04:21
January 27, 1998 oral 1:16:43
January 19, 1999 oral 1:18:40
January 27, 2000 oral 1:28:49
George W. Bush average (ex. 2001)  
2001 NOT a "State of the Union" February 27, 2001 oral 0:49:10
  January 29, 2002 oral 0:47:49
  January 28, 2003 oral 0:59:35
  January 20, 2004 oral 0:53:55
  February 2, 2005 oral 0:53:20
January 31, 2006 oral 0:51:08
January 23, 2007 oral 0:49:24
January 28, 2008 oral 0:52:56
Barack Obama

average (ex. 2009)

1:08:20
2009 NOT a "State of the Union" February 24, 2009 oral 0:51:44
  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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