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ChazInAz

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23. If I recall correctly,

Reply to getagrip_already (Reply #12)

Mon Jan 8, 2018, 02:32 PM

Jan 2018

George Washington only gave one State of the Union speech to Congress, then submitted the rest in writing.
Congress, in that one address, was so rowdy and disrespectful that POTUS #1 refused to talk to them again. Rather prickly, that Mr. Washington.

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