“Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style.”

— Peggy Noonan

"Confessions of A White House Speechwriter" in The New York Times (15 October 1989) http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/15/magazine/confessions-of-a-white-house-speechwriter.html

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American author and journalist 1950

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