State of Union Speech Numbers

State of Union Speech in Numbers

This article is a small piece about our presidents speeches in the past. It gives us the numbers from their speeches. For example, President William Howard Taft was the one who delivered the longest speech with 22,614 words. Then there was the shortest speech, written by President George Washington. The article states that "The State of the Union messages are mandated by Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution, which states that the president "shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." I thought it was interesting that we had two presidents (William Henry Harrison and James Garfield) who didn't give any speech. I really just thought that this piece was entertaining.