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Bush Preps for State of the Union Address

By Don Gonyea

Published January 19, 2004 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 20 years ago.

President Bush prepares to deliver his third State of the Union Address Tuesday, one day after the Iowa caucuses. The timing gives Bush a chance to share the limelight with politicking Democrats. Presidential advisers say Bush's speech will offer an optimistic vision of Iraq, other foreign policy issues and the state of the U.S. economy. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

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You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.