Joe has been rehearsing and practicing his 61 minute speech for 4 days now. He is reading and re-reading. He is being videotaped and reviewing the tape with consultants. Any area he has a problem they will re-write.
They have added in 5-10 special areas for emphasis to make him appear lucid, they are practicing those areas many times.
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Rehearsing a speech is only a minor help with his problem. He has short term memory loss so by the time he gets up to give the speech he will not have remembered all the rehearsals.
This may be the speech that ends it for good.
He will probably have an earpiece with someone reminding him what to say and when. “Salute the Marines”.