Michelle Obama says the teleprompter broke before her first major televised address in 2008, but she had the entire 16-minute speech memorized
Briefly

"I was standing there on live television, knowing I was supposed to speak for 16 minutes straight. There was no pausing the show or calling for help. For a second, I felt wildly alone - and also wildly exposed."
"In that vulnerable and exposed moment, I had one last form of protection: I'd done the fire drill. I could stop fretting about everything that was broken and blocked and rely on what was in my head and also in my heart."
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