The state of our union is ⦠dumber: how linguistic standards have declined in the president's address The state of the union address has â with few exceptions â been delivered to Congress annually since George Washington's first address in 1790. Using the Flesch-Kincaid readability test, a US Department of Defense standard, the Guardian has analyzed all addresses to date to determine the number of
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