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To: Neocon who wrote (73819)	2/3/2000 12:27:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 108807

Oh, you quote Peggy Noonan all the time, Neocon, though you usually credit her words to somebody else. She writes lots of stuff, and she's a pretty good writer. It's quite unfashionable now in right wing circles to say anything bad about Reagan, and I'm sure she knows where her bread is buttered. But she also wrote this, somewhat earlier, when things were a little fresher in her mind: I would think to myself . . . that the battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: Never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. And this: This White House is like a beautiful clock that makes all the right sounds, but when you open it up, there is nothing inside. . . . When I thought of him in those days, it was as a gigantic heroic balloon floating in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Hero worship has its place, I guess, but it's usually considered good form to keep it out of history in the conventional sense of the word. Hagiography, well, that's just politics.

To: Neocon who wrote (73819)	2/3/2000 12:33:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

This is what Peggy said of her book on C-SPAN at the time of its release: NOONAN: Oh, they ... the book is arguably indiscreet, OK? It's a book that is very supportive of President Reagan but at the same time, is it hagiography? Is that the word for lives of the saints? The art form known as lives of the saints? It doesn't portray him as a saint; he wasn't. He was a really terrific political leader. But I had some ambivalent feelings towards him, and I let them out, and sometimes I'm a little rough on him.

To: Neocon who wrote (73819)	2/3/2000 12:34:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Peggy is a straight-shooter, she wrote Dan Rather's best lines. He apparently never recovered from her loss. Regards this: Ex-CIA chief had top-secret info on PC WASHINGTON (AP) - Former CIA Director John Deutch stored some of the nation's most sensitive national security secrets on a home computer that also was used to access pornographic Internet sites and to routinely receive and send e-mail..... usatoday.com