Truman gave 1951 State of the Union to a Congress including future Presidents JFK, LBJ (at top of photo), Nixon, Ford: pic.twitter.com/3VeQu2SMJQ— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 17, 2019
In 1951 future presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were senators; John F. Kennedy and Gerald Ford were congressmen. All four of them were in the audience for President Harry Truman's 1951 State of the Union speech.
Will there be any future presidents in the audience for Donald's 2nd State of the Union address tonight? Possibly. Of the 39 names on my Potential Candidates and I'm Running lists, 16 are current members of Congress and will presumably be there tonight:
Potential Democratic Candidates, in alphabetical order:
Will there be any future presidents in the audience for Donald's 2nd State of the Union address tonight? Possibly. Of the 39 names on my Potential Candidates and I'm Running lists, 16 are current members of Congress and will presumably be there tonight:
Potential Democratic Candidates, in alphabetical order:
- Stacey Abrams (2018 candidate for Georgia governor) added 1/3/19
- Joe Biden (Former VP)
- Michael Bloomberg (Former mayor of New York City)
- Sherrod Brown (Ohio senator)
- Jerry Brown (former Governor of California)
- Steve Bullock (Governor of Montana)
- Mark Cuban (Businessman, owner of the Dallas Mavericks)
- Bill de Blasio (Mayor of New York City)
- John Hickenlooper (Governor of Colorado)
- Eric Holder (Former Attorney General)
- Jay Inslee (Governor of Washington)
- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (Actor) added Nov. 10
- Tim Kaine (Virginia senator, 2016 VP nominee)
- Joe Kennedy (Congressman from Massachusetts) added Nov. 10
- John Kerry (former Secretary of State, 2004 Democratic nominee) added Nov. 10
- Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota senator)
- Mitch Landrieu (Mayor of New Orleans)
- Terry McAuliffe (Former governor of Virginia)
- Jeff Merkley (Oregon senator)
- Seth Moulton (Congressman from Massachusetts)
- Chris Murphy (Connecticut senator)
- Beto O'Rourke (former Texas Congressman, ran a close race for a U.S. senate seat from Texas) added Sept. 13
- Tim Ryan (Congressman from Ohio) added Sept. 8
- Bernie Sanders (Vermont senator, registered Independent, ran in 2016 primaries)
- Eric Swalwell (Congressman from California) added Nov. 8
- Mark Warner (Virginia senator) added Nov. 10
- Mark Zuckerberg (Businessman, founder of Facebook)
I'm Running: Declared Democratic Candidates, in order of their announcement
- John Delaney (7/28/17)
- Andrew Yang (11/6/17)
- Elizabeth Warren (12/31/18)
- Tulsi Gabbard (1/11/19)
- Julián Castro (1/12/19)
- Kirsten Gillibrand (1/16/19)
- Kamala Harris (1/21/19)
- Pete Buttigieg (1/23/19)
- Howard Schultz (1/29/19) * Running as an Independent
- Marianne Williamson (1/30/19)
- Cory Booker (2/1/19)
Note that this is just lawmakers who are or may possibly be running now, only one of whom can (potentially) be elected in 2020. At the time of Harry Truman's 1951 SOTU address, Kennedy's election was almost 10 years away, Johnson's assumption of the presidency after Kennedy's assassination was 12+ years away, Nixon's election was 17+ years away, and Gerald Ford's elevation to the presidency after Nixon's resignation was more than 23 years in the future. (And the man who would be elected president in 1952, General Eisenhower, was not in Congress and had never held elective office. In 1951, he was the President of Columbia University.) Someone who is alive today will be elected president in 2040, in 2044, in 2048 and so on. Are any of those future presidents current members of Congress? It's possible.
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