Full video of the speech as published by the White House | |
| Date | January 27, 1998 |
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| Time | 9:00 p.m. EST |
| Duration | 1 hour, 16 minutes |
| Venue | House Chamber, United States Capitol |
| Location | Washington, D.C. |
| Coordinates | 38°53′23″N 77°00′32″W / 38.88972°N 77.00889°W |
| Type | State of the Union Address |
| Participants | |
The 1998 State of the Union Address was given by the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton, on January 27, 1998, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 105th United States Congress. It was Clinton's fifth State of the Union Address and his sixth speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Newt Gingrich, accompanied by Al Gore, the vice president, in his capacity as the president of the Senate.
President Clinton discussed the federal budget, taxes and focused on the budget deficit, then at $10 billion. The president also discussed education, foreign relations, science funding, development, space travel and the Internet.
In the speech, the president acknowledged the deaths of Representatives Walter Capps and Sonny Bono.
The speech lasted 1:16:43 and consisted of 7,303 words.[1]
The Republican Party response was delivered by Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi.[2]
William Daley, the Secretary of Commerce, served as the designated survivor.
See also
References
- ↑ "1.2 Length of State of the Union Addresses in Minutes (from 1964) | The American Presidency Project". www.presidency.ucsb.edu.
- ↑ "Online NewsHour: The Republican response -- January 27, 1998". PBS. Archived from the original on October 24, 2013. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
External links
- (full transcript), The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
- Coverage by the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
- Entire 1998 State of the Union address (video) at C-SPAN
- Entire 1998 State of the Union Response (video) at C-SPAN
- Entire 1998 State of the Union Response (transcript)
- (full video and audio), Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia.
