When the Guests Become the Speech

Ronald Reagan changed the choreography of the State of the Union in 1982 when he looked up to the gallery and asked Lenny Skutnik to stand.

Skutnik had dived into the icy Potomac River to rescue a passenger after Air Florida Flight 90 slammed into the 14th Street Bridge.

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