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Noonan holds honorary doctorates from Adelphi University, St. John Fisher College, [[Miami University]], and her alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University. After serving as a producer for [[CBS News]], she worked as a speech writer for [[President]] [[Ronald Reagan]]'s [[administration]]. She wrote Reagan's famous 1986 speech after the [[Space]] Shuttle Challenger disaster. During the 1988 Presidential Election she also wrote memorable phrases for then-[[Vice President of the United States of America|Vice President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] such as "a kinder, gentler nation" and "a thousand points of light."  

Noonan holds honorary doctorates from Adelphi University, St. John Fisher College, [[Miami University]], and her alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University. After serving as a producer for [[CBS News]], she worked as a speech writer for [[President]] [[Ronald Reagan]]'s [[administration]]. She wrote Reagan's famous 1986 speech after the [[Space]] Shuttle Challenger disaster. During the 1988 Presidential Election she also wrote memorable phrases for then-[[Vice President of the United States of America|Vice President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] such as "a kinder, gentler nation" and "a thousand points of light."  

In 2008 she criticized [[John McCain]]'s choice of [[Sarah Palin]] for vice president. In an opinion piece, she railed against Palin as too inexperienced.  

In 2008 she criticized [[John McCain]]'s choice of [[Sarah Palin]] for vice president. In an opinion piece, she railed against Palin as too inexperienced. In September 2012, after several post-Convention setbacks in the campaign of Republican candidate Mitt Romney, she described his campaign management as "incompetent" and "rolling calamity"

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