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It is a piece by Peggy Noonan in the Walser Journal.

And this actually is, she's a wonderful writer.

Whether I agree with her point or not, she's one of the best writers.

She's also a great speech writer.

She's also a lovely person.

I love Peggy Noon.

I'll tell you, one of my, one of the highlights of my life, I guess, one of the cool

moments of my life, a kind of check the box milestone is I did not know that Peggy Noonan

was great friends with the late comedian Joan Rivers.

And I just thought Joan Rivers was a neat human being.

I thought she was very funny.

She was definitely right of center in a lot of what she believed.

And I just, I liked her.

I really did.

And when she died, I did not know that she and Peggy Noonan were friends.

And Peggy Noonan had a piece about spending time with Joan Rivers.

And I wrote Peggy and I said, oh, my gosh, I wish I had known you knew her.

I would have had someone to relate to that woman.

She didn't know me from Adam.

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