Shivering, wearing one of the few pairs of winter gloves he could find to buy in California, Peterson looked over the crowds gathering on Tuesday morning.
"I came to my first inauguration when I was 12 years old. My daughter is 12 years old, and I wanted to give her the same experience," Peterson said.
Now 32, Peterson owns a tech firm. He came to see former President George H.W. Bush's inauguration in 1989. He voted for Obama in November.
He wanted his daughter to see what Washington meant to him -- "the pure, spectacular D.C., the monuments, the energy, the power," as he describes it. And like so many others, he wanted his daughter to have a part of history. "This, I think, will be a turning point for this country," he said.
In the meantime, though, his daughter was stuck in line for the bathroom with her mother, and a lack of cellphone service was temporarily keeping them from rejoining each other.
-- Drew Armstrong
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