<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/final/westmont-news/learning-lessons-past-presidents.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>02/23/2019</pubDate><title>Learning Lessons from Past Presidents</title><excerpt>Peggy Noonan’s quick, humorous wit and gracious reflections on encounters with world leaders kept an early-morning crowd engaged and appreciative. The 2019 President’s Breakfast speaker told the sold-out audience that working for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush changed her life for the better. Noonan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Wall Street Journal and former presidential speechwriter, identified important lessons each of the last six U.S. presidents could have learned from his predecessor.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
            <img src="/_migrated-binaries/sites/default/files/blogs-legacy/2019/03/PB19_224-505x337.jpg" alt="Peggy Noonan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at the Wall Street Journal, spoke at the 14th annual Westmont President’s Breakfast on Feb. 22"/>
        </image><caption>Peggy Noonan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at the Wall Street Journal, spoke at the 14th annual Westmont President’s Breakfast on Feb. 22</caption><description>1 Column Content Background Color White Ali...</description></item>