"That's when I knew the speech was going to be broadcast."
It could be that this last speech is all going on inside his head, but that's never made clear.
"The speech went on for four hours, and I was reduced to tears after about 30 minutes," she said.
Even 100 years later, sadly enough, the speech goes to the very heart of the black experience in America.
His speech went down well and he was urged to stand for election.
As speeches went, it was a pretty good one, I'll give her that.
The speech would have gone over well if he had given it earlier, before the people were allowed to see the prisoner.
He said the governor's speech was not going to change his disappointment over the governor.
President Bush's speech yesterday did not go back on this condition in any way.
"I think maybe that speech went on too long," she said.