1923 State of the Union Address

Coolidge opened his speech by paying tribute to recently deceased President Warren G. Harding: Amongst the many issues facing the country that Coolidge addressed, his opposition to the practice of lynching is notable: Coolidge closed his speech with a reflection on the emergence of the United States as a world power in the post-World War I era, in which he alluded to a line from Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union speech: This was the only State of the Union Address which Coolidge delivered as a speech. After 1923, Coolidge opted to restore the longstanding practice of delivering the State of the Union Address in writing. By word count, this address was Coolidge's shortest State of the Union Address, consisting of 6,706 words. This was the first State of the Union Address to be broadcast to a large radio audience, following a limited but successful experimentation with radio the year prior. This speech was the last time that a Republican president would address a joint session of Congress to deliver a State of the Union Address until 30 years later, when Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his first State of the Union Address in 1953. ==References==