keywords: president barack obama, 2009 state of the union address, us airways pilot chesley 'sully' sullenberger
Synopsis: In what could be considered his first Presidential “State of The Union Speech”, President Barack Obama address a joint session of Congress.
Some of the guests recognized were US Airways Pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and Co-Pilot Jeffrey Skiles. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, John Stevens, Antonin Scalia, David Souter, Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Samual Alito.
This scene was especially poignant in light of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who had undergone surgery for pancreatic cancer just 3 weeks earlier... (read more)