How I changed the presidential oath of office.....maybe

I have to include this story.

Remember the Justice Robert's flub of the administering of the Presidential Oath of Office. Saying this will make me sound delusional, but there is a good chance that I, single handedly, had something to do with that. The connection is a dialogue with Mike Newdow, whose suit for an injunction of the words "so help me God, was prompted by an email I sent him. And as he responded when I asked if others had suggested this, "No Al, it was only you." I laid down the background of Newdow's suit in this diary: Newdow's Innauguration Suit...Why it Matters

Roberts was aware of this pending suit, and also that Newdow was correct, and previous administrations of the oath had been unconstitutional. In this affidavit submitted by Jeffrey P. Minear, Robert's counselor, this was resolved by describing phrase "So help me God" as being "after the conclusion of the constitutional oath" But if this oath to God was after the conclusion of the oath, how was this to be conveyed to the world?

My guess, is that Roberts decided to pose it in a different grammatical mode from the constitutionally prescribed oath, as a question in the second person. This change was never rehearsed between the President elect and the Chief Justice and it is reasonable that it was on Roberts mind that noon hour in January.

In a letter to Minear I asked for confirmation of my hypothesis. Of course he was not going to breach Lawyer-Client confidentiality, but he did respond that he read my email "with fascination" and that while he can't comment he hopes that I will continue to speculate on it. (I take that as CONFIRMATION!)