Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>
> Jon Gabriel wrote:
> >
> > Jon, who's having fun watching the West Wing hour-long
> > commercial/documentary.
> >
>
> I came in partway through. I saw 2 women interviewed that I really
> remember; one was Dee Dee Myers. Who was the other one? (If I missed
> one, that question isn't going to be answered very well, and I'll
> apologize for being such a space case.)
>
> Julia
>
> who couldn't place Leon Panetta at first, either
>
> Me:
> Well, there was Peggy Noonan. Also a rather young woman from the Clinton
> Administration I couldn't recognize. Noonan was Reagan's truly remarkable
> speechwriter - often called the best in America. She wrote Reagan's
> legendary "The Boys of Point du Hoc" speech, among many others. She now
> writes a column for the Wall Street Journal, and is one of The West Wing's
> token Republicans, along with Marlin Fitzwater, who was also on the show.
It was Noonan. (I went to the opinionjournal website and found her
picture there.) Thank you.
We were taping the show; we don't have time to watch TV in the evenings,
so we tape about 4 hours' worth of evening shows each week and watch
them over the weekend, and that's 1 hour out of the 4. I saw some of it
because I sat down in the room it was taping in to feed Sam about 35
minutes into it, but I missed the little tags saying who some of the
people were (and I think I had the closed captioning on, as well, which
probably obscured some of the information I wanted anyway).
If they release West Wing on DVD at some point, that series is one I
might find worthwhile owning, actually. (I'd *really* like to own the
episode "Two Cathedrals" on DVD.)
Julia
