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DARLENE SUPERVILLEAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — Pres-ident Donald Trump is the latest chief executive to deliver a State of the Union address at a time of turmoil.

But others may have had it even worse. Abraham Lincoln delivered a written report during the Civil War, Richard Nixon spoke while embroiled in the Watergate scandal and Bill Clinton gave one of his State of the Union speeches just weeks after he’d been impeached in the very same room.

Despite all of that, pres-idential historian Douglas Brinkley called Trump’s up-coming address on Tuesday “a strange and bizarre State of the Union.”

There’s the continuing federal investigation into Trump campaign con-tacts with Russia, calls for Trump to be removed from office and the president’s own threat to again close down parts of the govern-ment if Congress refuses to spend billions of dollars to build his long-promised

U.S.-Mexico border wall.House Speaker Nancy Pe-

losi added to the theatrics surrounding the event by forcing Trump to postpone the speech a week because of the original shutdown, a record 35-day stoppage.

Plenty of State of the Union addresses have un-folded in turbulent times.

Two decades ago, Dem-ocrat Clinton delivered a State of the Union speech not long after the Republi-can-controlled House im-peached him in December 1998 on grounds that he had lied to a federal grand jury and had obstructed justice in the wake of his relation-ship with White House in-tern Monica Lewinsky.

And just hours before Clinton delivered his speech — in the same chamber where he had become just the second president ever to be impeached — White House lawyers opened their defense of the president in a Senate trial in which they argued he was innocent of the charges and “must not be removed from office.”

No president had ever de-livered a State of the Union address under such extraor-dinary conditions.

Speculation was rampant that Clinton would cancel, according to former Senate historian Donald Ritchie. But not only did Clinton show up, he spoke in char-acteristic length about a booming economy, bal-anced federal budgets and a proposal to protect Social Security for the ages. He did not mention the cir-cumstances leading up to the impeachment vote that threatened his presidency.

“He came and he deliv-ered a message as if noth-ing was going on,” Ritchie recalled. “It took a lot of the steam out of the impeach-ment effort against him.”

The Senate acquit-ted Clinton the following month.

Decades earlier, Nixon devoted much of his final State of the Union speech in January 1974 to the coun-try’s energy crisis. But near the end of his remarks, he added a “personal word”

about Watergate. Nixon called for the investigation to end, declaring “one year of Watergate is enough” and said he had no “intention whatever” of resigning.

But the Republican re-versed course and stepped down that August, becom-ing the only president ever to resign. Nixon had faced impeachment by the House over his participation in

the attempted cover-up of a break-in at Democratic Party headquarters exe-cuted by burglars connected to his re-election campaign.

Shortly after taking of-fice, President Gerald Ford — Nixon’s vice president and successor — pardoned Nixon.

Ford then used his 1975 State of the Union speech to declare “the state of the

union is not good” — though not due to any Watergate fallout. Ford cited high un-employment, a recession, inflation, a rising federal deficit and climbing national debt, the energy situation and other issues as reasons for his bleak assessment.

Lincoln faced a situation “more grim than it is now, by far,” said Brinkley, refer-encing the Civil War.

Trump latest to give State of the Union during turmoil

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