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Slate’s provided a way to make last night’s State of the Union interesting, and placed it within a historical context. Though I can’t vouch for the accuracy of their process, it does create interesting results. Through a “natural-language analysis” they’ve found the speeches fall into four distinct phases.

Monday night, a fourth and final Bush emerged, Crawdad tells us: “Legacy Bush.” New and year topped the list, along with leader, Congress, and agreement. Iraq(i) was also influential.

“As is common in most State of the Unions, Bush framed his thoughts in a nationalistic manner, using the words America(n), nation, good, people, and world very significantly,” Dooley tells Slate. “We note that Bush believes his legacy is still very much tied to Iraq and the Iraqi people.

You can also skip straight to their table of all of Bush’s addresses.