Washington, D.C.

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NYTimes:

[To] walk a mile or so with the crowd was to observe that there was a general cheerfulness in the air as the people were drawn to a place and a moment they wanted to be. By mid-morning it was clear that the audience to watch Mr. Obama’s inauguration would surely rank with the crowds of any other inauguration, or with the 1963 multitude that heard the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.