Look out for the "Skutnik" during Trump’s State of the ... a guest seated in the gallery has become known as “the Skutnik,” and the guests themselves are referred to as “Lenny Skutniks. ...

But the first was Lenny Skutnik who, despite the political associations that have become attached to his name, was an actual hero one January day in 1982. *** Advertisement. Advertisement.

Almost 200 years after George Washington gave the first annual message from the President to Congress, Reagan’s first State of the Union started a tradition by inviting Lenny Skutnik to attend.

2016. How Lenny Skutnik, Reagan’s SOTU Hero, Soured on Obama’s America. In an interview, the first SOTU guest says Obama’s “nuts,” the Democratic Party is “disgusting” and Trump ...

Lenny Skutnik, Sox fan. A real Washington hero Chicago can put its arms around. Originally Published: December 31, 1995 at 1:00 AM CST. Share this: ...

The first American to earn the distinction was a federal employee, Lenny Skutnik, a Congressional Budget Office employee who jumped into the icy waters of the Potomac River in January 1982 to help ...

It all started in 1982, when then-President Ronald Reagan called out government employee Lenny Skutnik. Just two weeks before the State of the Union, Skutnik had saved the life of a plane crash ...

A June 7 article in the Style section gave an incorrect age for the woman whom Lenny Skutnik helped rescue after the crash of an Air Florida plane into the 14th Street Bridge in 1982. She was 22 ...

It all started in 1982, when then-President Ronald Reagan called out government employee Lenny Skutnik. Just two weeks before the State of the Union, Skutnik had saved the life of a plane crash ...

Lenny Skutnik was a 28-year old office assistant working in the Congressional Budget Office who was among the federal employees sent home early because of the snowstorm. He was standing on the ...

Lenny Skutnik was watching on the shore and jumped in to save her. He towed her to land. It was 24 degrees outside. Here's what he saw (skip to 1:38).