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White House The Phillips Collection United States Capitol Thomas Jefferson Memorial National Museum of the American Indian International Spy Museum National Portrait Gallery Washington Monument Lincoln Memorial Freer Gallery of Art
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 = = = Inauguration and start of operations = = = 

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 On April 29 at 8 : 20 a.m. EDT , Obama conferred with his advisers and gave the final go @-@ ahead . The raid would take place the following day . That evening the president was informed that the operation would be delayed one day due to cloudy weather . 

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 No official count was taken of the number of people attending the inaugural ceremony , although multiple sources concluded that the ceremony had the largest audience of any event ever held in Washington , D.C. Government agencies and federal officials , who coordinated security and traffic management , determined the attendance count to be 1 @.@ 8 million people based on information collected by several cameras and individuals on the ground . The Washington Post reported the estimated crowd size for the inaugural ceremony , and the National Park Service said it did not contest the estimate . 

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 The police presence in the District of Columbia temporarily doubled , augmented by the addition of 8 @,@ 000 police officers from around the United States . The police force was assisted by 1 @,@ 000 FBI agents to provide security for the event , and the Secret Service Countersniper team was assigned to hidden locations throughout the area . The Transportation Security Administration had over 300 officers from its National Deployment Force on hand to assist the Secret Service with security inspections of attendees entering the National Mall . Ten thousand National Guard troops were on site , with 5 @,@ 000 troops providing security duty in a ceremonial capacity and 1 @,@ 300 unarmed troops aiding Park Police in crowd control at the National Mall . C Company of the 1 – 175 Infantry provided security between the first and second public viewing areas of the National Mall at the 7th Street , N.W. intersection , while the remaining members performed other security functions . The Federal Aviation Administration implemented additional airspace restrictions over Washington , D.C. between 10 : 00 am and 6 : 00 pm on January 20 , 2009 . Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was chosen as the designated survivor to ensure continuity of government in case of catastrophe , and he spent Inauguration Day at a U.S. military installation outside of the Washington , D.C. area . 

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 By the weekend , the presence of the State Guards had become a curiosity . Larger than usual crowds strolled in the center of the city . Thousands attended a band concert on the Boston Common . " The shootings of the last few days for interference with guardsmen , " said the New York Times , " seem to have had a marked effect . " 
