Daily Archives: January 25, 2014

Clinton challenges Congress in State of Union address 20 years ago this hour (Jan 25 1994)


Video: 'State of the Union Address: Speech by President Clinton (1994)'

(Tuesday, January 25, 1994, 9:00 p.m. EST) — U.S. President Bill Clinton threatened in his State of the Union address tonight to veto any health care proposal that does not guarantee coverage for all Americans and he laid down a broad, unequivocal challenge to Congress to deliver his ambitious domestic agenda.

‘America is back,’ Reagan declares in State of Union address 30 years ago this hour (Jan 25 1984)


Video: 'State of the Union: President Reagan's State of the Union Speech - 1/25/84'

(Wednesday, January 25, 1984, 9:00 p.m. EST) — U.S. President Ronald Reagan declared in an election-year State of the Union address tonight that “America is back, standing tall,” and he sought constitutional power to trim spending and pare the federal deficit without raising taxes.