Play Like Grown-Ups

Peggy Noonan and I used to rendezvous 5 times a week. As morning news editors on competing stations located in the same building, we'd often ride the elevator to work with "bulldog editions" of the paper in hand, but in icy silence... Peggy, who eventually would be a speech writer for President Reagan, was miffed I had reported the results of the 1972 Presidential Election as Nixon 49 - America 1.