As secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell would normally be eighth in the line of presidential succession. But because she was born in the United Kingdom, she isn't eligible to be president and therefore would never be tapped as the designated survivor.
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1 The President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” Article II, Section 3, Clause 1.
http://history.house.gov/Institution/SOTU/State-of-the-Union/
Security, of course, will be tight. But if the unthinkable happens -- the Capitol is attacked, wiping out everyone inside the chamber -- there’s one cabinet secretary surrounded by Secret Service agents somewhere else, waiting in the wings to become president.
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In modern times, the State of the Union Address serves as both a conversation between the president and Congress and, thanks to television, an opportunity for the president to promote his party's political agenda for the future. From time to time, the address has actually contained historically important information.
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The first televised evening State of the Union Address. Including President Barack H. Obama’s 2015 address, there have been a total of 93 in-person Annual Messages/State of the Union Addresses. Since President Woodrow Wilson’s 1913 address, there have been a total of 81 in-person addresses.
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As anyone who passed 10th-grade history knows, if the president dies or is removed from office, he’s succeeded by the vice president, followed by the speaker of the house (currently Republican Rep. John Boehner) and then the president pro tempore of the Senate (Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch).
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Selected by the White House chief of staff, the designated survivor is a cabinet-level official who spends the evening away from the Capitol, ready to take the reins if everyone above him in the presidential line of succession dies in a crisis at the House chamber.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt first used the phrase State of the Union in 1935, and in 1947, Roosevelt's successor Harry S. Truman became the first president to deliver a televised address. Washington hits the essentials.
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Finding the written report a great idea, Jefferson's successors in the White House followed suit and it would be 112 years before a president again spoke the State of the Union Address.
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While the Constitution specifies no time, date, place, or frequency for the address, president's have typically delivered the State of the Union Address in late January, soon after Congress has re-convened.
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which u.s. president started the state of the union address?
Franklin D. Roosevelt is the president of the United States who has started the state of the union address.