from Christopher A. Thomas book THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL & AMERICAN LIFE (2002)
"Conducted at the highest level of government on the afternoon of Memorial Day (May 30), the
1922 ceremony drew a crowd, reliably estimated at 35,000, believed to be the largest in the
city's history to that time. The ceremony focused on the presentation of the memorial to the nation
by Chief Justice Taft, as chairman of the Lincoln Memorial Commission, and its acceptance
and dedication by President Warren G. Harding. Besides these official events, the dedication
inadvertently set a trajectory for the powerful role the memorial would later play in
unofficial, national symbolics." page 153
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