Reagan Foundation: 'State of the Union: President Reagan's State of the Union Speech - 1/26/82'

Source:Reagan Foundation- President Ronald W. Reagan (Republican, California) giving the 1982 State of the Union address.

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This photo is from the 1982 State of the Union speech that President Reagan delivered to that joint session of Congress, with Vice President George H.W. Bush (Republican, Texas) and Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neal (Democrat, Massachusetts) behind the President. But the video that this photo is from is not currently available online right now. 

Source:Reagan Foundation- President Ronald W. Reagan (Republican, California) giving the 1982 State of the Union address.

If you listen to President Reagan’s 1982 State of the Union Speech and then listen to President Obama’s 2009, or 2010 State of the Union speeches, they are similar at least in this sense: "Times are tough, we passed a program to deal with the bad economy. Things are improving a little bit and had we not passed our program, things would be worse had we not done anything.” Same thing was said in 1982 from President Reagan and President Obama said the same thing in 2010. Because the situation was similar, an awful recession and high unemployment in both cases.

The country probably wasn’t buying either speech that much, because President Reagan’s Republican Party dropped thirty plus seats in the House in 1982. And I don’t know how they managed hang on to the Senate. (Maybe that’s a future post) And President Obama’s Democratic Party dropped sixty-two seats in the House in 2010. 

Both Presidents inherited awful economy’s big reason why they were elected President. The economy’s so bad that it wasn’t until late 1983, that the economy began to take off again. With high economic growth and a falling unemployment rate. A big reason why President Reagan was reelected in a landslide.  

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