FILE - In this May 18, 2009 file photo, first lady Michelle Obama, right, is joined by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., 42, the little-known U.S. representative from upstate New York who was appointed to fill Hillary Rodham Clinton's seat, at the reopening ceremony of Charles Engelhard Court of the newly-renovated American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, FILE)