A president’s “last” state of the union address is a chance to frame the man’s (or, someday, woman’s) legacy. But such speeches have evolved over our 223-year American experiment. Here’s how several two-term presidents handled the speech, knowing it was the last formal address of his presidency One caveat: Key presidents such as Lincoln and FDR are not on this list because neither knew that his last State of the Union address would be his last. Another note: All “State of the Union” addresses between Washington and Johnson were delivered in writing, not in a speech: George Washington December 7, 1796 Washington spent a lot of time praising God, but, like most addresses of the early American period, he dwelled on our nation’s small place in the world. He opened with the Indian problem: “Measures calculated to insure a continuance of the friendship of the Indians and to preserve peace along the extent of our interior frontier have been digested and adopted … to guard on the one hand our advanced settlements from the predatory incursions of those unruly individuals who can not be restrained by their tribes, and on the other hand to protect the rights secured to the…