How Barack Obama Prepared His Speech

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"Our challenges may be new," said Obama. "The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true."

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