On May 20, Lee delivered his address according to the original text. He did not, as some had speculated, change the speech because it had been leaked to Japan's Keizai Shimbun the day before.
五月二十日，李登輝在正式就職演說時照本宣讀，並未如各界揣測的，因事前演講稿遭日本經濟新聞曝光而增減內容。