Larsen camps out, Starbucks gets presidential

From my inauguration morning experience:

Tidbit #1:Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Everett, and his family camped overnight in his congressional office, putting them a few steps closer to their seats for today’s inauguration.

By sleeping over in the Cannon House Office Building they should have been able to avoid fighting through some of the humongous crowd packing the National Mall.

That crowd is so huge, thousands of people with tickets remained outside the gates as the ceremony began and the former presidents were introduced.

Tidbit # 2: Starbuck’s has special coffee sleeves for the day. They have red and blue stripes and excerpts from different presidents.

They chose this from Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address in 1865:

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

And this from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address in 1945:

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”