 Then Hanson and I were both exhausted, so we fled back to the hotel. I flipped on the TV, was delighted to see the president was plunging on. In fact, it sounded like he was just getting going. And I poured myself a scotch and watched the rest of the speech while checking my watch in wonderment, thinking, what's the record again for the longest? Which he broke. Hour and 32 minutes. 1.32. New record. And I just kept thinking he was going to wrap it up, and he did not.