.......TSA joined 57 other federal, state and local agencies that worked together to protect the president and those attending the ceremony. While our officers are best known for their work in U.S. airports, TSA was called upon to lend its expertise to help screen roughly 240,000 ticketed spectators at the swearing-in ceremony, plus hundreds of thousands more at checkpoints that stretched west down the Mall from the Capitol.......

.......Inauguration spectators reciprocated with “thank you for being there” as they exited the Mall for the inaugural parade. “It was truly an honor to hear the spectators thank us,” said TSO Edward Woodall of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. “It was remarkable to see spectators and security working so well with one another.”