Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

When did rebuttals to a state of the Union address start?

A million years ago.

The first official, televised opposition response to a president's annual message came in 1966, when Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) and House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford (R-MI) offered a critique of President Lyndon Johnson's annual message.

https://www.senate.gov/about/traditions-symbols/state-of-the-union-response-list.htm#:~:text=The%20first%20official%2C%20televised%20opposition,President%20Lyndon%20Johnson%27s%20annual%20message.