History of the State of the Union

According to CNN about the History of the State of the Union, President George W. Bush as an example has to deliver his annual State of the Union address. This presidential speech is different from others because every term of year or the president has to deliver a speech about his administration achievements and about his goal for the upcoming year. This topic is mainly about how they decided to do the annual speech. The first speech was given by George Washington who delivered his speech by "message" on January 8,1790. His successor John Adams delivered his annual speech in person before congress.However Thomas Jefferson thought that Washington's speech was "monarchical and time consuming" and therefore decided to send a message to the congress. Since that day, over 112 years U.S presidents sent a written message to the congress. But in 1913, President Woodrow Wilson decided to resume the practice of delivering the message in person to both houses of Congress. The arrival of new technology enable president to communicate and broadcast their speech by radio and Harry S Truman was the first who did it. Today George W.Bush usually delivers his annual speech at an evening session of Congress during the second third of fourth week of January and by broadcasting and web casting to an international audience.
I think the U.S congress made a really amazing progress in how the president should present their speech and today it is by web casting on live and written in the newspaper.