President Obama Holds Situation Room Strategy Review

In this photograph by Pete Souza, President Barack Obama holds a strategy review on Afghanistan in the Situation Room of the White House on September 30, 2009. Among his advisers in the room were Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, and Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.