Peggy Noonan (7 September 1950-) was an American conservative author, Wall Street Journal columnist, and speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan.
Biography[]
Peggy Noonan was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York in 1950, and she went to high school in Rutherford, New Jersey. She worked as a CBS Radio commentary writer for Dan Rather during the 1970s, and she became a WEEI Radio newswriter in 1975 and then an adjunct journalism professor at New York University in 1978. During Ronald Reagan's presidential administration, she served as a special assistant and speechwriter at the White House, writing a speech commemorating the 40th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Pointe du Hoc on 6 June 1984, Reagan's address to the nation following the Challenger disaster, a tribute speech to John F. Kennedy, and George H.W. Bush's "Read my lips: no new taxes" speech from the 1988 presidential election. Noonan went on to become a Wall Street Journal columnist, and she campaigned for George W. Bush's re-election in 2004, opposed Sarah Palin's 2008 vice-presidential candidacy, and supported Mitt Romney in 2012.