from "In the Realm of the Fisher King" by Joan Didion

When, on the second night of [the 1976 Republican National Convention], the band struck up "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree" during an ovation for Mrs. Reagan, Mrs. Ford started dancing with Tony Orlando. Mrs. Reagan was magnanimous: "Some of our people saw this as a deliberate attempt to upstage me, but I never thought that was her intention."

What Didion neglected to mention is that Betty and Tony were doing the Bump. In my opinion, anyone who does the Bump in the middle of a Republican National Convention is definitely trying to upstage somebody or other.