1972 State of the Union Address

Speech by US President Richard Nixon February 2026 February 2025 1972 State of the Union Address 12:30 p.m. EST 29 minutes 1972 01 20 House Chamber, United States Capitol Washington, D.C. 38 53 23 N 77 00 32 W region:US-DC_type:event inline,title State of the Union Address Richard NixonSpiro AgnewCarl Albert Previous 1971 State of the Union Address Next 1973 State of the Union Address The 1972 State of the Union Address was a State of the Union address given by U.S. President Richard Nixon on January 20, 1972.Address on the State of the Union Delivered Before a Joint Session of the Congress. The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-state-the-union-delivered-before-joint-session-the-congress-0 2024-03-12 www.presidency.ucsb.edu The shortest such recorded address in history, it covered value-added taxes, emergency medicine, and the then-ongoing Vietnam War. Topics In the address, Nixon proposed a value-added tax of 3% on retail sales.Kaven William August 1972 Now Comes the Value-Added Tax http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/001088047201300202 Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly en 13 2 2–8 10.1177/001088047201300202 0010-8804 subscription He also discussed deficiencies in the country's emergency medical services, advising the U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare to reorganize such services.United States Congress House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Subcommittee on Public Health and Environment https://books.google.com/books?id=pDndTujBskAC&dq=%221972+state+of+the+union%22&pg=PA27 Emergency Medical Services Act of 1972: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Health and Environment of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12563 and H.R 13582 ... H.R. 12787 and H.R. 13447 ... H.R. 9876 ... 1972 U.S. Government Printing Office en27 With respect to the Vietnam War, the president declared that "As our involvement with the war in Vietnam comes to an end, we must go on to build a generation of peace".Chiu Monica https://books.google.com/books?id=b2EfBQAAQBAJ&dq=%221972+State+of+the+Union%22&pg=PA189 Drawing New Color Lines: Transnational Asian American Graphic Narratives 2014-11-01 Hong Kong University Press 978-988-8139-38-5 en189 (The war actually ended with the Fall of Saigon in 1975, three years later, making the president's declaration read as premature in retrospect.190) The address continued six great goals from the 1971 State of the Union Address, but with various other items added to appease interest groups.Harper Edwin L. 1996 Domestic Policy Making in the Nixon Administration: An Evolving Process https://www.jstor.org/stable/27551549 Presidential Studies Quarterly 26 1 41–56 27551549 0360-491854 (These goals were: welfare reform, peacetime prosperity, restoring the natural environment, improving healthcare, revenue sharing, and reorganizing the U.S. federal government.52) Event The address ended up being the shortest-ever recorded State of the Union address in history. It lasted for only 28 minutes and 55 seconds.See the Presidents who have had the longest and shortest State of the Union addresses https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/07/shortest-longest-state-of-the-union-addresses/72888261007/ 2024-03-12 USA TODAY en-US On January 21, Democratic Congresspeople recorded an official response to the address in a 53-minute televised panel.U.S. Senate: Opposition Responses to the State of the Union Address (1966-Present) https://www.senate.gov/about/traditions-symbols/state-of-the-union-response-list.htm 2024-03-12 www.senate.gov References External links Richard Nixon's Third State of the Union Address BKfGtzPKKYw President Nixon's 1972 State of the Union 1971 State of the Union Address 1973 State of the Union Address State of the Union addresses 1 1972 Category:Speeches by Richard Nixon Category:Presidency of Richard Nixon Category:92nd United States Congress State of the Union Address State of the Union Address State of the Union Address Category:January 1972 in the United States Category:1970s State of the Union addresses