Michael Beschloss reminds us of earlier crowds.

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President Eisehower speaks to a crowd of more than a million people, India, December 1959:

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Tulsa Daily World was impressed by unexpectedly large turnout for George Wallace’s rally in Tulsa, September 1968:

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Richard Nixon’s “rage" to be speaking in a half-empty hall, October 1952 (as described in Jonathan Aitken’s "Nixon: A Life”):

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CNN said Air Force One did a low fly above an empty over-flow. Bet that was a mood killer.

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