Dean Jeffries, Mr. Day, distinguished faculty, fellow graduates, family members—good afternoon and thank you for including me in this wonderful day of celebration. I am honored to be here.
I've learned that you should never give a speech that lasts more than 20 minutes—because in 20 minutes, any audience of average intelligence will figure out you don't know what you're talking about. Given the intelligence of my audience today, I'll hold my remarks to ten.
I loved my time here at UVA, and I hope you did, too. I had wonderful friends, great times, and the most awe-inspiring, intimidating and, since it was the mid-60s, the worst-dressed professors one could imagine.
Here, in my Law School seminars, I learned the difference between a fact and an assumption, between reasoning and guessing. Plus, I was a newlywed, which meant that at home, I was learning the difference between a fact and an assumption, between reasoning and guessing.