He gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice as long as it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long and poorly delivered.

Two days later, in a nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress, Clinton unveiled his economic plan.

On October 22 at 7: 00 pm EDT, President Kennedy delivered a nation-wide televised address on all of the major networks announcing the discovery of the missiles.

On March 4, 1987, Reagan returned to the airwaves in a nationally televised address, taking full responsibility for any actions that he was unaware of, and admitting that " what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages.

* 1961 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the " military-industrial complex ".

Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office, outlining his plan for tax reductions in July 1981

Although he was considered innocent and released on 22 December 2001, he was declared a terrorist by U. S. President George W. Bush in his televised address on 23 December 2001.

The Yahya Ayyash Units admit responsibility, and Palestinian president Yasser Arafat condemns the killings in a televised address.

* October 22 – In a televised address, U. S. President John F. Kennedy announces to the nation the existence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

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

President Nixon giving a televised address explaining release of edited transcripts of the tapes on April 29, 1974

In a nationally televised address from the Oval Office on the evening of August 8, 1974, the president said,

Johnson recommended the renaming of the entire cape, announced in a televised address six days after the assassination.

Russian President Vladimir Putin defended the scale and violence of the assault in a televised address later on the morning of 26 October, stating that the government had " achieved the near impossible, saving hundreds, hundreds of people " and that the rescue " proved it is impossible to bring Russia to its knees ".

One of his first functions as Taoiseach was a televised address to the nation – only the third such address in the Republic's history – in which he outlined the bleak economic picture:

Whereas Harcourt's first two years in government were characterized by a notably social democratic policy agenda, the government took a dramatic turn to the right in 1993 with Harcourt's famous province-wide televised address in which he lashed out against " welfare cheats, deadbeats and varmints ".

The address was televised by WTVW-TV ( today's WJLA-TV Channel 7 in Washington DC ) on its inaugural broadcast.

* Saddam gives a televised address on Iraqi state television:

The missile strikes began three days after Clinton was called to testify before a grand jury during the Lewinsky scandal and his subsequent nationally televised address later that evening in which Clinton admitted having an inappropriate relationship.

The President was to make a televised address to the nation on Vietnam policy on 31 March and was deliberating on both the troop request and his response to the military situation.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the opening day address, and as a reflection of the wide range of technological innovation on parade at the fair, his speech was not only broadcast over the various radio networks but also was televised.

Taoiseach Jack Lynch in a televised address, said, " we can not stand by and watch innocent people being injured and perhaps worse ", comments taken to mean that Irish troops would be sent over the border to assist Northern nationalists.

He gave a televised address to the nation on 4 December 2011, ahead of the delivery of the 2012 Irish budget.

* September 12-In an internationally televised address, U. S. president George W. Bush announced a " war against terrorism " intent on targeting both terrorists and those who harbored terrorists.

Two days later, in a televised scene that shocked the nation, Grishin dragged the terminally ill Chernenko from his hospital bed to a ballot box to vote.

* September 5 – U. S. President George H. W. Bush holds up a bag of cocaine purchased across the street at Lafayette Park, in his first televised speech to the nation.

Reagan gave a well-received televised speech supporting Goldwater ; it was so popular that Goldwater's advisors had it played on local television stations around the nation.

In a televised broadcast to the nation, Ford explained that he felt the pardon was in the best interest of the country.

The couple announced their engagement on 30 March 2001 ; Princess Máxima addressed the nation in fluent Dutch during the directly televised broadcast.

In 2007 Rimes began hosting The Colgate Country Showdown, a nation wide televised country music talent competition, similar to that of American Idol or Nashville Star.

Many of the earlier hearings, in 1966, were televised to the nation in their entirety ( a rarity in the pre – C-Span era ); the 1971 hearings included the notable testimony of Vietnam veteran and future senator and Senate Foreign Relations Chair John Kerry.

The Credentials Committee televised its proceedings, which allowed the nation to see and hear the testimony of the MFDP delegates, particularly the testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer, who gave a moving and evocative portrayal of her hard brutalized life as a sharecropper on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta and the retaliation inflicted on her for trying to register to vote.

In a final report televised on 28 April 1983 as the military prepared their departure, the ruling junta officially declared that the disappeared were all dead but declared to have saved the nation.

Trudeau also addresses the nation in a televised speech explaining why he invoked the War Measures Act.

* February 20 – Prime Minister Pearson gives the first ever televised address to the nation as he tells Canadians that he will table a confidence motion the next day to prove his party still has control.

People with an affinity for the number 8 descended upon the town from various parts of the nation and world, and the celebration was televised on national television.

* 23 April-Under criticism for doing " too little, too late " in response to a severe drought in Rajasthan and Gujarat in the northwest, Prime Minister Vajpayee appeals to the nation for charitable donations to help the region in a televised address.

In May 2011, President Obama announced in a televised speech to the nation that al-Qaeda leader and culprit behind many deadly acts of terrorism ( including the September 11 attacks ) Osama bin Laden was killed by U. S. forces at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

* Vice President Clark's presidential swearing-in aboard EarthForce Two is an intentional homage to U. S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's own ceremony aboard a plane, televised to the nation, immediately after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963.

More than two years after football had become the most popular televised sport in the nation, this game featured a match up that all of America hoped for in the NFL Championship.

On August 8, 2001, in a televised address to the nation from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Bush announced that the federal government would provide funding, but only for research that used human embryos which had already been destroyed.

On 17 May 2010, in a televised address to the nation, Golding apologised to the Jamaican people for his involvement in the Manatt affair.

The Mass at St. Peter's Basilica was the first Mass of Requiem for a pope to be televised live in almost every nation in the world.