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Richard Blanco: Inaugural Poet (Pt. 1)

Richard Blanco is only the fifth poet in U.S. history to be selected Inaugural Poet to the President.    He shares with Alan his thoughts on the event and reads a poem he'd written for the Inaugural Committee which was not selected for the occasion.  With the pithy understanding of someone anchored in two cultures, he observes that immigrants may be more patriotic than natives.