Presidential Advisors Listen to President Obama's Speech

In this photograph by Pete Souza, President Barack Obama's advisors listen to his speech on Afghanistan at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on December 1, 2009. Seated from the right are Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki; Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Gen. David Howell Petraeus, commander of United States Central Command, among others.