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Calvin Coolidge's 1923 speech was the first to be broadcast on radio.

Harry S. Truman's 1947 address was the first to be broadcast on television.

Lyndon B. Johnson's address in 1965 was the first delivered in the evening.

Three years later, in 1968, television networks in the United States, for the first time, imposed no time limit for their coverage of a State of the Union address.

Delivered by Lyndon B. Johnson, this address was followed by extensive televised commentary by, among others, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Milton Friedman.

Ronald Reagan was the only president to have postponed his State of the Union Address.

On January 28, 1986, he planned to give his address, but after learning of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, he postponed it for a week and addressed the nation on the day's events.

This was the only time that the State of the Union address had to be postponed.

Bill Clinton's 1997 address was the first broadcast available live on the World Wide Web.

Virginia Senator Jim Webb made the 2007 response and Rep. Xavier Becerra of California delivered the Spanish version.

In 2008, Democrats tapped Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to give a response in English ; Texas state Senator Leticia Van de Putte did the same in Spanish.

In 2010, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell gave the Republican response from the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates.

In 2011, Wisconsin Congressman and House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan gave the English Republican response from the House Budget Committee hearing room, while Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen delivered the Spanish response.

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann also gave a response to the address for the Tea Party Express, a first for the political movement.

Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana, gave the Republican response to the 2012 State of the Union address.