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President Bush will give his seventh State of the Union address Tuesday. Blogger Chirag Mehta’s “tag cloud” (
chir.ag/ phernalia/ preztags) charts frequently used words in past speeches. Following are favored words from some of them.
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George W. Bush
2002: “freedom”
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Bill Clinton
1998: “families”
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George H.W. Bush
1990: “freedom”
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Ronald Reagan
1982: “economic”
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Jimmy Carter
1978: “inflation”
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Gerald Ford
1975: “tax”
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Richard Nixon
1973: “messages”
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Lyndon Johnson
1968: “Vietnam”
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John F. Kennedy
1962: “economic” and “strength”
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
1959: “strength”
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Harry S. Truman
1953: “Communist,” “war” and “economic”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
1935: “unemployed”
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Calvin Coolidge
1927: “agriculture”
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Woodrow Wilson
1916: “industries”
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Theodore Roosevelt
1902: “corporations”
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Abraham Lincoln
1862: “labor”
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James K. Polk
1848: “Mexico”
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Andrew Jackson
1831: “Indians” and “treaty”
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James Monroe
1818: “Spain”
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James Madison
1814: “British”
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Thomas Jefferson
1808: “appropriation”
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John Adams
1800: “execution” and “treaty”
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George Washington
1790: “blessings,” “deliberations” and “expedient”
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