Peggy Noonan, the 1950s and Alan Greenspan

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Huruvida de båda länderna har kommit överens om något är dock oklart.  

DI 29 maj 2026, 17:12

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Peggy Noonan, the 1950s and Alan Greenspan  

I was seated to the left, with four other nominees for honorary doctorates, the great crowd spilling before us, and I’ll tell you where my thoughts were, far away and far back in Massapequa, Long Island, when I was a child.

Oh those old days in the 1950s, when the houses that became part of the great substantial suburbs of today were brand-new. 

Their dormers hadn’t been built yet; the lawns hardly had grass; the trees were plants held steady by sticks, a piece of paper attached by wire to the branches: “Apple tree.” “Peach tree.” So people from the city would know what it would become.

At age 20 I was accepted to attend FDU full time during the day. I was a college student. 

And eager now, finally, to sit in a class and listen, absorb. I worked hard, did well, edited the school newspaper. In coming decades I went on to work as a writer for a radio station, then a network, then for a great president, now a great newspaper.

I’m saying what you already know: Never count anyone out. Don’t count yourself out. Don’t take the world’s appraisal of you and make it your own.

Peggy Noonan Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/becoming-who-you-are-aint-for-sissies-55c0d00b

Mr. Greenspan describes himself  as "shocked, shocked" that politics is going on in Washington, and his words are being twisted.

But he never quite cleared it up, not at the time. He does it now, with the book, and after the advance.

As a writer I am in passionate support of large advances, but $8.5 million to tell the American people what he should have told them when his views might have had an impact?

Mr. Greenspan is an "If only they'd listened to me" man. He should have added, "And they might have if I'd been clear."

Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2007

https://www.internetional.se/greenspanbook.htm#noonan

"Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder's equity (myself especially) are in a state of shocked disbelief," Greenspan in October 2008

“If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.” 

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2023/11/rod-oppning-red-opening-21-november-2023.html

She was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986. 

Five of Noonan's books have been New York Times bestsellers. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Noonan