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Here's a hundred days piece that requires no heavy lifting. I won't burden you with policy initiatives, political analysis or psychological speculation.

Here's a collection of numbers that reflects the president's activities during his first hundred days. Some are consequential, others trivial. But they provide a window into the workings of the Obama presidency – and suggest what we can expect in the days to come.

In no particular order: some intriguing numbers from the Obama presidency to date. Make of them what you will.

News Conferences: 16 – of which two were formal prime time news sessions. Most of the others were joint press availabilities with foreign leaders at home and abroad. (Mr. Obama has a prime time news conference this evening.)

Speeches: 115 (at least 47 using a Teleprompter)

Cabinet Meetings: 1

Bill Signings: 12 (bill signing ceremonies: 6)

1) S. 181 - The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
2) H.R. 2 – The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
3) S. 352, Digital TV Delay Act
4) H.R. 1 – The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
5) H.J. Res. 38 – a Continuing Resolution to provide funding to the government through March 11
6) H.R. 1105 - $410-billion Omnibus Appropriations Bill
7) H.R. 1541 - Small Business Act Temporary Extension
8) H.R. 146 – the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009
9) H.R. 1512, the “Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2009
10) H.R. 1388, the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act
11) S. 520, which designates the United States Courthouse located in Rockford, Illinois, as the “Stanley J. Roszkowski United States Courthouse”
12) S. 383, the “Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2009

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To many White House staffers it seems closer to a year, but it was just a month ago today that Barack Obama began his presidency.

He’s still new on the job and getting a feel for its perks and peculiarities. He now knows he’s not supposed to stop and shake the hand of the U.S. Marine corporal saluting him at the steps of Marine One. But Mr. Obama also knows that as Commander-in-Chief, no one can tell him not to do it.

There are many ways to assess his first month in office. And here are some numbers – in no particular order - from the CBS News database.

Days in Office: 32

Oaths of Office Taken: 2
(One at the Inauguration, and a re-do the next day because Chief Justice Roberts misplaced the word “faithfully.”)

States Visited: 7
(Maryland, Virginia, Indiana, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, Arizona)

Flights on Marine One: 16

Flights on Air Force One: 16

Bill-signing Ceremonies: 3
(Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act; Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorzation Act, or S-CHIP; American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, aka the stimulus bill)

Increase in the National Debt: $163-billion
(to $10.789-trillion)

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The first numbers are coming out for the television audience that tuned into Barack Obama's inauguration, and, well, a pretty good percentage of Americans watched it.

Across the 56 local markets measured by Neilsen Media Research, 29.2 percent of households tuned in to see the president-elect become the president.

That's up from 20.8 percent who watched George W. Bush's 2000 inauguration and way up from the 11.8 percent who watched Mr. Bush in 2004, according to Neilsen.

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