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latimes.com - 1/21/2009

A record crowd for inauguration? Hard to say - Los Angeles Times

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Reporting from Washington -- More than 1 million spectators convened on the National Mall to watch Barack Obama take the oath of office Tuesday, but it was unclear if the crowd surpassed the record thought to have been set at Lyndon B. Johnson's 1965 inauguration. Though early estimates ranged ...

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L.A. TIMES: A record crowd for inauguration? Hard to say. “More than 1 million spectators convened…
Instapundit — ... L.A. TIMES: A record crowd for inauguration? Hard to say. “More than 1 million spectators convened on the National Mall to watch Barack Obama take the oath of office Tuesday, but it was unclear if the crowd surpassed the record thought to have been set at Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 inauguration. Though early estimates ranged as high as 2 million people, satellite images of Obama’s swearing-in suggested the crowd was probably about half that, said Clark McPhail, who has been analyzing crowds on the National Mall since the 1960s.” ...

Well, one million at the Mall is nothing to be *ashamed* of.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — That’s quite a lot, really. Maybe not quite record-breaking, but still quite a lot: A record crowd for inauguration? Hard to say Reporting from Washington — More than 1 million spectators convened on the National Mall to watch Barack Obama take the oath of office Tuesday, but it was unclear if the crowd surpassed the record thought to have been set at Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 inauguration. Though early estimates ranged as high as 2 million people, satellite images of Obama’s swearing-in ...