Cika wannan jumla: A ranar 20 ga Janairu, 2009, a
A lokacin bikin rantsar da Barack Obama a matsayin shugaban kasa, Alexander ta karanta wakarta mai suna "Waƙar yabo ga Ranar", wanda ta tsara don wannan lokacin. Ta zama mawaki na huɗu ne kawai da za a karanta a bikin rantsar da shugaban Amurka, bayan Robert Frost a 1961, Maya Angelou a 1993 da Miller Williams a 1997.