Peggy Noonan was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986 and has maintained a center-right leaning in her writings since leaving the Reagan administration.
15 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 on a tribute Reagan gave to honor President John F Kennedy at a fundraising event held at the McLean, Virginia, home of Senator Edward M Kennedy in the spring of 1984.
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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 mid-August 2004, Noonan took a brief unpaid leave from The Wall Street Journal to campaign for George W Bush's reelection.
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Peggy Noonan is an author, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and a commentator on several news shows, including CNN, where she distanced herself from more conservative Republicans and Donald Trump's presidency.
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Peggy Noonan was one of the founding members of wowOwow.
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In 1985, Noonan married Richard W Rahn, who was then chief economist at the US Chamber of Commerce.
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Peggy Noonan is a practicing Roman Catholic and attends St Thomas More Church on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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In June 2019, Peggy Noonan wrote a column about the loyalty of Trump's supporters that was based on conversations she had with her sister and her uncle.