<P> The State of the Union model has also been adopted by the European Union, and in France since the presidency of Emmanuel Macron . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> President James Monroe first stated the Monroe Doctrine during his seventh annual State of the Union Address to Congress on December 2, 1823 . It became a defining moment in the foreign policy of the United States and one of its longest - standing tenets, and would be invoked by many U.S. statesmen and several U.S. presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan . </Li> <Li> The Four Freedoms were goals first articulated by Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941 . In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech, he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear . </Li> <Li> During his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944, FDR proposed the Second Bill of Rights . Roosevelt's argument was that the "political rights" guaranteed by the constitution and the Bill of Rights had "proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness". </Li> <Li> During his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson introduced legislation that would come to be known as the "War on Poverty". This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent . The speech led the United States Congress to pass the Economic Opportunity Act, which established the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to administer the local application of federal funds targeted against poverty . </Li> <Li> 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 ." </Li> </Ul>

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