Keyword Search of Presidential State of the Union Addresses Since 1913

 Google searches for exact words. Searching for a single term like environment will miss environmental.

To find all references to "environment" in its different forms, search for environment OR environments OR environmental. The search term OR must be in capital letters. Words searched for need not be in caps.

Searching for multiple terms, such as Russia Soviet USSR will find documents that have all three words, not any of the three words.

To search for a speech using any of the words, use the OR search command.

Enclosing a phrase--such as "foreign policy"--within quotation marks searches for that exact word string.

Choose the party of the presidents to search by clicking in a circle next to the choice below.

• The search will count the number of presidential addresses that contained the specified key words, highlight the first passage in which the terms occurred, and allow you to link directly to that address.
• The count refers to number of addresses, not number of mentions or "hits" of the search terms.
• Additional mentions of your search terms may be elsewhere in the retrieved address.
• You will have to open the individual addresses to find additional mentions, using your browser's search capability.
• Most browsers employ truncated searching: searching for environment will also find environments and environmental.
• In comparing the occurrence of key words in presidential addresses, take into account the addresses' lengths. Typically, researchers compute how frequently key words appear per 1,000 or 10,000 of total words.