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Archive
Why Gore Should Concede
Time Magazine, December 4, 2000
- Al Gore should hang it up. And then he should hang his head in shame. In a great irony of which he may someday become aware, Gore proved at the end of his presidential campaign what he had spent most of that campaign trying to disprove. In words and deeds, in photo ops and tactical decisions, he kep...
The Case for Bush
Time Magazine, November 6, 2000
- A change is in order. In the past eight years the American people have built and fueled a miracle: the greatest economic engine in the history of the world. Income up, standard of living up, investment up. The deficit has become a surplus. We are fat and almost happy. Once Rabbit was rich; now Rabbi...
Grace Under the Glare
Time Magazine, July 26, 1999
- We keep saying goodbye to big pieces of the century, and this last is just too sad and unjust. What would have become of that unfinished life? What would have come of that promise?
Let me tell you what it was like to see him. I was in a restaurant last Thursday in Manhattan with a small group of ...
Why The Speech Will Live In Infamy
Time Magazine, August 31, 1998
- After seven long months, what we got was four minutes of petulance and prevarication. It felt less like a speech than a slap.
The President’s speech was a disaster, a historic failure that will be ever noted and long remembered. It was, in fact, a reverse Checkers speech. The Checkers speech wa...
Ronald Reagan
Time Magazine, April 13, 1998
- Clare Boothe Luce famously said that each President is remembered for a sentence: “He freed the slaves”; “He made the Louisiana Purchase.” You have to figure out your sentence, she used to tell John Kennedy, who would nod thoughtfully and then grouse when she left. Ronald Reagan knew, going ...
A Combatant In The World
Time Magazine, September 15, 1997
- Such joy. It was the spring of 1985, and President Reagan had just given Mother Teresa the Medal of Freedom in a Rose Garden ceremony. As she left, she walked down the corridor between the Oval Office and the West Wing drive, and there she was, turning my way. What a sight: a saint in a sari coming ...
Dole’s Long Road
Time Magazine, November 18, 1996
- In a more or less conservative country, the more or less conservative candidate—Bob Dole—should have been a shoo-in for the presidency, especially against a feckless charmer whose Administration threw off scandal like spores. But until the end, Dole was barely competitive, and in the end he lost...
The Captain Of His Soul
Time Magazine, September 18, 1996
- On the stump those last days, Bob Dole’s campaign was more local than national—the taped Sousa marches, the town bigwig at the mike vamping in front of an audience in elephant hats. Then Dole would come out from behind the stage, parting the polyester-blue curtain, and enact the body language of...
Welcome to Hard Truths
Time Magazine, August 26, 1996
- Bob Dole’s acceptance speech was big—stern, daring, even at moments Churchillian—but it was marked most by a kind of interrupted eloquence. The speech betrayed the weight of a few too many hands. Even in its strongest, most poetic passages there seemed to be something missing. When Dole stirri...
A Memo to Bob Dole
Time Magazine, June 17, 1996
- FROM THE DESK OF PEGGY NOONAN
TO: BOB DOLE
DATE: JUNE 10, 1996
This week you leave the Senate, with a goodbye speech on the floor that is sure to be moving. Whatever happens in November, you’ve closed a great chapter of your life.
Now what? The standard thing to do is what all modern pres...
Memo to Bob Dole
Time Magazine, May 27, 1996
- MEMO FROM THE DESK OF PEGGY NOONAN
TO: BOB DOLE
DATE: MAY 27, 1996
Your Senate leave taking provided that most satisfying of political moments, when the words are as big as the event. Forget the June departure date, leave now and for good. You made a dramatic exit. To go back in the next three ...
Heroic Jackie, Tacky Jackie
Time Magazine, May 6, 1996
- What does the Jackie Onassis auction tell us? some things that we already knew, and some that we didn’t. We knew that there were always two Jackies, really. One was moving and heroic and cultivated, the possessor of a detached dignity that kept us fascinated. The other was a girl who was just a li...
America’s First Lady
Time Magazine, May 30, 1994
- She was a last link to a certain kind of past, and that is part, but only part, of why we mourn so. Jackie Kennedy symbolized—she was a connection to a time, to an old America that was more dignified, more private, an America in which standards were higher and clearer and elegance meant something,...
