Change Has Come: Scenes from the Inauguration

One man's quest to glimpse history through the elusive Purple Gate.

By Pete Redington

WASHINGTON, D.C.--"Purple!" the crowd shouts, holding up delicately calligraphed invitations and waving them around like billy clubs. "Pur-ple! Pur-ple! Pur-ple!" we chant. We are standing in a sea of people at Third Street and Louisiana Avenue, inching across the intersection, the thousands [RETURN TO ARTICLE]