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Margaret Ellen "Peggy" Noonan is a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal.Since leaving the Reagan administration, she has maintained a center-right leaning in her writings.Five of Noonan's books have been New York Times best sellers.

Her father was a merchant seaman and she was born in New York.She is of Irish descent.Noonan is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University.[5]

She once said that Dan Rather was the best boss she had.She worked as a news writer at WEEI Radio in Boston from 1975 to 1977 and later became the Editorial and Public Affairs Director.

The "Boys of Pointe du Hoc" speech was written by President Reagan's speechwriter in 1984 on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.She wrote Reagan's address to the nation after the Challenger explosion, drawing upon the words of a poet who said "slipped the surly bonds of earth... and touched the face of God."According to a list compiled by professors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Texas A&M University, the latter is the eighth best American political speech of the 20th century.The "Pointe du Hoc" speech is the 58th best speech of the century.[6]

Reagan gave a tribute to President John F. Kennedy in the spring of 1984 at the home of Senator Edward M Kennedy.

Bush's 1988 presidential campaign, while working for Vice President George H. W. Bush, popularized the phrase "a thousand points of light."In Bush's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans, he pledged to "Read my lips: no new taxes".A major reason for Bush's defeat in the 1992 election was his reversal of this pledge.

Edmund Morris, a member of the Awards Council and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, presented the Golden Plate Award to Noonan in 1995.[7]

In August 2004, Noonan took a leave of absence from The Wall Street Journal to campaign for George W. Bush's reelection.

In The Wall Street Journal, Noonan wrote about SarahPalin's vice presidential candidacy.In one opinion piece, Noonan stated that she believed that thevulgarization in American Politics was caused by the candidacy of SarahPalin.The commentary caused a backlash from conservatives.[9]

She is now an author, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and a commentator on several news shows, including CNN, where she has distanced herself from more conservative Republicans and President Donald Trump's presidency.She is one of the founding members of wowOwow.com and sits on the committee.

During one of the nation's most divisive political campaigns, Noonan won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his beautifully rendered columns that connected readers to the shared virtues of Americans.[10]

Richard W. Rahn was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.Will was born in 1987.[2]

After five years of marriage, Noonan and her husband divorced.She returned to New York with her son.She and her son attended the nearby Saint Ann's School and lived in a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights.[13]

New York City is where Noonan lives.She is a practicing Roman Catholic and attends a church on Manhattan's Upper East Side.[15]