against poverty. During his State of the Union address on January 15, 1975, Gerald R. Ford very bluntly stated that "the state of the Union is not good: Millions of Americans are out of work...We depend on others for essential energy. Some people question their Government's ability to make hard decisions and stick with them; they expect Washington politics as usual." Ford said he didn't "expect much if any, applause. The American people want action, and it will take both the Congress and the president to give them what they want. Progress and solutions can be achieved, and they will be achieved." During his State of the Union address on January 29, 2002, President Bush identified North Korea, Iran, and Iraq as representing significant threats to the United States. He said, "States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world". In this speech, he would outline the objectives for the War on Terror. TV ratings See also List of joint sessions of the United States Congress State Opening of Parliament Weekly Radio Address of the President of the United States References External links The American Presidency Project: State of the Union Messages "Established in 1999 as a collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara," currently (January 2010), the APP "archives contain 87,448 documents related to the study of the Presidency". State of the Union videos and transcripts at C-SPAN (since 1945) State of the Union (Visualizations, statistical analysis, and searchable texts) State of the Union Addresses of American Presidents (1790–2002) (in downloadable electronic file formats) State of the Union Addresses of American Presidents (1790–2006) (HTML format) Top 10 State of the Union Addresses, RealClearPolitics.com (1:01:02) Corpus of Political Speeches: free access to political speeches by American and other politicians, developed by Hong Kong Baptist University Library 1790 establishments in the United States Annual events in Washington, D.C. Article Two of the United States Constitution Articles containing video clips Speeches by heads of state