Peggy ping.
Heh, heh. Three totally forgettable people.
What a great article! She has given me my new tagline.
It will be recorded that Ronald Reagan cleaned up the mess that FDR left at his death, restored our time-honored values and put America back on the right path.
Who is "The Hack," and what is his involvement with Reagan and Peggy Noonan? Thanks to anyone who knows.
My (almost) 6 year old now knows exactly who he is and what he did.......she doesn't understand it all, but she will.
ping.
My eye went from a grieving Mikhail Gorbachev to Joan Rivers to Jim Billington of the Library of Congress to Oscar De la Renta, from Antonin Scalia to Buffy Cafritz, from Clarence Thomas to Merv Griffin, from Prince Charles to Oatsie Charles.
Forgive my ignorance, but who the heck are Buffy & Oatsie?
Wow. The part about the Hack is awfully jarring in relation to the rest of the article. What the hell's going on here?
BTTT
I'll take Reagan.
In his time as POTUS, FDR fought war on two fronts. The economy and national defense. After 9 years of the Great Depression, FDR couldn't get the great engine of US capitalism back on track. FDR couldn't win the economic war with his policy agenda. FDR did lead America to victory in WWII. Beating Imperialist Japan, nazi Germany and the other Axis powers. In the process, the US economy came roaring back to life.
50 years after FDR, Ronald Reagan fought war on two fronts also. Reagan cut taxes, lowered inflation and put the American economy back on track. Reagan won the economic war. After 40 years of military confrontation between the worlds two superpowers, Reagan's initiative of "Peace through Strength" finally won the Cold War. In the process Reagan ended Euro-communism and toppled the Soviet Union. Not bad at all.
Reagan loved FDR.
I loved Reagan.
The cortege was coming toward the steps. We looked out the window: a perfect tableaux of ceremonial excellence from every branch of the armed forces. Mrs. Thatcher watched. She turned and said to me, "This is the thing, you see, you must stay militarily strong, with an undeniable strength. The importance of this cannot be exaggerated."
To my son, whose 17th birthday was the next day, she said, "And what do you study?" He tells her he loves history and literature. "Mathematics," she says. He nods, wondering, I think, if she had heard him correctly. She had. She was giving him advice. "In the world of the future it will be mathematics that we need--the hard, specific knowledge of mathematical formulae, you see." My son nodded: "Yes, ma'am." Later I squeezed his arm. "Take notes," I said. This is history.
Margaret Thatcher has a sense of forboding concerning the future. She has repeatedly stated nothing good will come over the long term from the EU and nothing good will come from British participation in the EU.
This is a very, very deeply held feeling of the Baroness.
The Bushes don't know everyone. The Clintons knew Hollywood, but Hollywood didn't love them; it just embraced them. The Reagans were loved by the ones who knew them. It's nice when you see this. The last first couple of whom I think it could be said were the Kennedys.
That was something. I don't think I'll ever see anything like that again in my lifetime.
Great article-BUMP
THANKS!
GREAT DOC.
Tricky to copy and save but did via MS WORD.
Still a wise woman I see in spite of several strokes. Would that the citizen's of this country could hear her message and take it to heart rather than the propaganda of those who would undermine our security for their own personal gain.
Peggy hits yet another home run in one of the most personal and moving pieces yet. She is a word artist. She paints beautiful pictures with language, and I look forward to part 2.
The column was beautiful and moving and soaring and unbearably eloquent until the score settling part, and then it got fun.
This is one FINE LADY!! The panel she was on with C-SPAN made her stand out among her peers, beautiful!
The best were at their most glorious moments!!
Peggy didn't mention President Bush's eulogy. When I listened to him, I wondered if Peggy didn't help him with it because it was so beautiful.