Lapels. I can do quite a lot of things with those.

And I wanted to really shake the lapels of world leaders to get them to understand what is happening.

We stand at a very, very important moment in this history, and you're going to make a symbolic swim here to try to shake the lapels of world leaders.

In November 1979, a committee headed by Suzan E. Garrett of the Jaycees ladies service organization in Leitchfield, Kentucky organized a campaign to Tie A Yellow Ribbon around public trees as well as encouraging people to wear tied ribbons on lapels in support of the U.S. hostages being held in Iran.