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The 1948 State of the Union Address was given by Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, on Wednesday, January 7, 1948, to the 80th United States Congress in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. It was Truman's third State of the Union Address. Presiding over this joint session was House speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr., accompanied by President pro tempore Arthur Vandenberg, in his capacity as the acting president of the Senate since the office of Vice President was vacant due to Truman's ascendance to the presidency before the ratification of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Even though Truman's previous 1947 State of the Union Address had been televised, this address was only broadcast nationwide over the radio.
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- 1 2 Truman, Harry S. (January 6, 1947). "Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union". The American Presidency Project. Retrieved March 13, 2024.
- ↑ Langone, Alix (January 30, 2018). "How the State of the Union Address Made Its Broadcast Debut". Time. Retrieved March 13, 2024.
- ↑ "The First Live Televised House Proceedings". Office of the Historian of the House of Representatives. Retrieved March 13, 2024.
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