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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Bush invokes "Baby Einstein," silent on "surge"
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's sixth State of the Union address contained roughly 5,577 words. Harry Truman's 1946 State of the Union was the longest ever, weighing in at more than 25,000 words. The shortest message was George Washington's 1790 address, which contained a slender 833 words.
Of the almost 5,600 words the president uttered tonight, many of them touched on familiar themes and imagery, while some words used frequently in recent political discourse received few or no mentions. A selection of these words and phrases and their total mentions in Tuesday's speech are listed below: "America" or "American" - 49 "Iraq" or "Iraqi" - 34 "child" or "children" - 15 "enemy" - 10 "democratic" (little "d") or "democracy" - 8 "success" - 5 "War on Terror" - 4 "courage" - 4 "Madam Speaker" - 3 "failure" - 3 "troops" - 3 "Baby Einstein" - 3 "freedom" - 3 "evil" - 2 "friend" - 2 "victory" - 2 "Democrat" or "Democratic" (big "D") - 1 "Republican" - 0 "surge" - 0 -- CNN Research Director Robert Yoon
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