Don’t Count Out the Cloth Coat It’s a retort, one forecaster said, to “too many soft clothes, too many elastic waists. We’re all craving a little structure now.” Putting the YGB in Roy G. Biv: from left, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Senator Roy Blunt, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff, at the inauguration of Mr. Biden.Credit...Pool photo by Melina Mara Published March 9, 2021Updated March 10, 2021 In his nationally televised “Checkers” speech of 1952, Richard Nixon, a vice-presidential candidate at the time, aggressively hoisted his Everyman flag. “Pat doesn’t have a mink coat,” he famously said of his wife, “but she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat.”