The State of the Union’s Fatal Conceit

by Brian T. Schwartz | 12:52 am, January 31, 2010 | Comments Off

A "speech from the throne." That's how Thomas Jefferson viewed public delivery of the annual speech. Starting with Jefferson's presidency, and ending in 1913, a clerk read the president's message to Congress. How times have changed. Now the president reads the address, but others write it. Nor is the address to ...

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