The 1934 State of the Union Address was given by the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was the first State of the Union address to be given in January. Excerpt: «Now that we are definitely in the process of recovery, lines have been rightly drawn between those to whom this recovery means a return to old methods—and the number of these people is small—and those for whom recovery means a reform of many old methods, a permanent readjustment of many of our ways of thinking and therefore of many of our social and economic arrangements… "