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As White House officials began preparing for President Barack Obama's final State of the Union speech, they dug up past "eighth-year" speeches and found something in common -- nearly all of them looked back.
It was tempting for the President to follow the lead of his predecessors, take a victory lap and mainly tout his administration's achievements. But Obama's instruction to his team was simple: Don't do that.
"Don't take our foot off the gas," the President told a group of West Wing aides and speechwriters preparing drafts of the speech, according to a senior White House official who attended meeting.
As his top aides have described it, Obama has chosen to deliver a "nontraditional" State of the Union.
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