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It can't have been a State of the Union address, since no one speaks at those except the President(*). On the other hand, Nobel Laureates reading poetry is exactly the kind of thing that happens at presidential inaugurations.
( * )And this was before Obama(**) and after T. Roosevelt, so the President wouldn't have been a Nobel Laureate himself .
(**)The LW spellchecker does not recognize this word (!)
should you really be that surprised by this?
I wish the exclamation point had been its own footnote.
David Foster Wallace, we miss you.