Video: '1997 State Of The Union - President Bill Clinton'

(Tuesday, February 4, 1997, 9:15 p.m. EST) — U.S. President Bill Clinton, declaring that Americans “want us to be partners, not partisans,” challenged Congress in his State of the Union address tonight to give the nation’s schools a big spending increase while balancing the budget by 2002.

This was the first State of the Union Address carried live on the Internet.