I was not there, but author and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan was. Here’s what she later wrote:Well, silence. Cool deep silence in the cool round cavern for just about 1.3 seconds. And then applause started on the right hand side of the room, and spread, and deepened, and now the room was swept with people applauding, and they would not stop for what I believe was five or six minutes. As they clapped they began to stand, in another wave from the right of the room to the center and the left.
But not everyone applauded. The president and first lady, seated within a few feet of Mother Teresa on the dais, were not applauding. Nor were the vice president and Mrs. Gore. They looked like seated statues at Madame Tussaud’s. They glistened in the lights and moved not a muscle, looking at the speaker in a determinedly semi-pleasant way.
“They glistened in the lights and moved not a muscle, looking at the speaker in a determinedly semi-pleasant way.”
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Sounds to me like they were ‘smirking’. How is it we didn’t hear about this on the lamestream for days and days afterward?
I wonder if one would/could describe their expression as a ‘smirk’... :P