1. Peggy Noonan was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986 and has been right-leaning in her writings since leaving the Reagan administration.
16 Facts About Peggy Noonan
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Peggy Noonan was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on America: A Tribute to Heroes.
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Peggy Noonan was born on September 7,1950, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of a merchant seaman.
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Peggy Noonan is a graduate of Rutherford High School in Rutherford, New Jersey, and Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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Peggy Noonan worked as the daily CBS Radio commentary writer for anchorman Dan Rather at CBS News, whom she once called "the best boss I ever had".
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Bush's 1988 presidential campaign, Peggy Noonan coined the phrase "a kinder, gentler nation", and popularized "a thousand points of light", two memorable catchphrases used by Bush.
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Peggy Noonan wrote Bush's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans, in which he pledged "Read my lips: no new taxes".
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In 1995, Peggy Noonan received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris.
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Peggy Noonan worked as a consultant on the American television drama The West Wing.
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In 2003, Peggy Noonan was a supporter of the US invasion of Iraq.
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In 2007, Peggy Noonan was one of the founding members of the now-shuttered wowOwow.
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Peggy Noonan is a regular commentator on NBC's Meet the Press.
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In November 1985, at age 35, Noonan married 43 year old Richard W Rahn, who was then chief economist at the US Chamber of Commerce.
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Peggy Noonan is a practicing Catholic and attends St Thomas More Church on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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Since the late 2010s, Peggy Noonan has distanced herself from the Republican Party under Donald Trump.
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In June 2019, after Peggy Noonan called on congressional Democrats to censure President Trump in the wake of the Mueller report, he attacked her on Twitter, calling her "simplistic" and claiming that she "is stuck in the past glory of Reagan".