But a group of cadets and faculty angered by the planned speech held a conference call on Friday night with Mikey Weinstein, head of the the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
He rose slowly, with a cane planted in the ground by one hand and a lengthy speech held in the other.
The record for the longest acceptance speech is held by Greer Garson, who droned on for over five minutes in 1943.
And on Thursday, Christie's sold his 1864 "Election Victory Speech," long held by a library in upstate New York, for $3.44 million, a record for an American historical manuscript".
In the process, DuVernay, who was unable to secure rights from the King estate to his speeches (they're held by DreamWorks and Warner Bros. for Steven Spielberg), wrote astonishingly faithful, albeit entirely original, imitations of his sermons and addresses.
Since retiring, Duke, who has four children and lives near Philadelphia, has travelled across the country delivering keynote speeches to conferences held by the likes of Citibank, Pandora, and Marriott.
In fact, Mr Farage spent the day in St Julian's, Malta, where he gave the keynote speech at a conference held by the Institute of Travel & Tourism, an event booked long before the by-election was triggered by the resignation last month of Patrick Mercer.
There is concern that the prime minister will not quit even if it is clear he could not secure a Commons majority in a Queen's Speech that must be held by 4 June.
