The Gimlet Eye

Cat Got Your Lip?

AM I missing something, or has Bill Clinton given up lower-lip-biting? I watch our President’s every TV appearance, and as the hundred days drew to a close I sensed a slight change in deportment. Photo ops came and went, and not once did I see him bite his lower lip. Perhaps this is a retrenchment, or a bow to political reality, or a reappraisal arrived at after careful consideration of a variety of viewpoints—or perhaps, as the White House would say, my premise itself is mistaken, and the President has never bitten his lower lip.

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Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson, a former columnist for NR, is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Cat Got Your Lip?

AM I missing something, or has Bill Clinton given up lower-lip-biting? I watch our President’s every TV appearance, and as the hundred days drew to a close I sensed a slight change in deportment. Photo ops came and went, and not once did I see him bite his lower lip. Perhaps this is a retrenchment, or a bow to political reality, or a reappraisal arrived at after careful consideration of a variety of viewpoints—or perhaps, as the White House would say, my premise itself is mistaken, and the President has never bitten his lower lip.