![]() ROBERTS: (Laughter) Well, the person who gives them often burns him or herself. ![]() (ph), who asks, don't these speeches kind of have a history of burning the person who gives them? INSKEEP: Now, we have a question from Robert Lee Rouse Jr. And, yes, it is the leaders who decide, but they've decided all kinds of different approaches over the years. The two congressional leaders, Gerald Ford and Everett Dirksen, delivered it. And the Republicans realized what a boon it was, and so they demanded some time for a response. The year before, Lyndon Johnson had moved the State of the Union from a daytime event into prime time for a bigger audience. ROBERTS: Well, the first response, in the way we've come to know it, came in 1966. ![]() When was the first time Congress decided a response to the State of the Union was necessary? And was the choice of who would make that response always a meaningful gesture? Or did it just fall to party leadership? INSKEEP: OK, here's a question from one of our listeners.ĬHRISTINA GRIFFITH: Hi, this is Christina Griffith (ph). INSKEEP: Let's talk about the tradition of the official response with commentator Cokie Roberts, who joins us each week to talk about how the government and politics work. ![]() Yet even when they came home weary and bone-tired, my parents found a way to show us all who we could be. STACEY ABRAMS: Growing up, my family went back and forth between lower middle class and working class. Stacey Abrams, who once ran for governor of Georgia, delivered the Democratic response to the State of the Union speech last night. ![]()
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