America S National Mall: Crowds

Collective Action Dept: The crowds, according to the official numbers, were half what they were four years ago, but it didn t look like that to anyone standing on America s National Mall, according to The Chronicle Herald. Then, to the delight of most, for there were not too many Republicans among them, they heard him deliver a terse and powerful statement in defense of government and collective action, far bolder and less compromising than the words he delivered from the same spot four years ago and hours before noon, on a relatively mild day for a Washington winter, they had started to converge on the Capitol, laughing, waving flags and filling the Mall to capacity down the full mile-long stretch as far as the Washington Monument, to see their president sworn in for a second time. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.