Eternal Friends, President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
word is that she can no longer speak - the taped eulogy for Reagan is something she made years ago.
The fact that she came just underscores the closeness of the ties she had with Reagan. Travelling in her current state of health has to be hard.
We are so lucky that the two of them were in power at the same time!
Wow...she looks classy.
Her doctors do not want her to speak in public anymore because they feel it will put an unneeded strain on her. Not too long ago, she had a series of small strokes.
She taped the remarks and it will still be nice to see her speak in that regard, but still it must have been great to her the Iron Lady speak in person.
I saw her when she went by earlier. That was about it for me. These two were soul-mates. I've got a photo I'll put up in a few minutes. I didn't take it, but the two of them caught in the midst of a greeting, were positively exstatic to see each other.
I dearly love the English when join us in our efforts.
God love Maggie Thatcher. I sure do.
Margaret Thatcher and Nancy Reagan were the most moving sights for me today. I have tears welling up in my eyes right now just thinking about these two great women at today's events. I hate to see them so look so fragile, I will always remember them from the eighties. I never really that about this, but the 80s were a great time to grow up and have such people as our leaders. Today has been such a sad one for me.
Bless her heart, she bowed before the casket. That was so touching, and from a Brit, quite an honor.
Jack Kemp was on FNC and was talking about how Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II all came into power from 1979-1981 and proved to change the world, how true. Three idealists who captured the majority's hope and sensibilities, only to be constantly attacked by an illogical leftist agenda.
The reason I say they were the LAST is because nowadays all puppeticians seem interested in is appeasing their contributors, the polls and the damned special interest groups. I doubt we will ever see a civil servant who is willing to follow the ideals that got them elected in the first place!
Let's raise a cold one for Dutch! He did what was right, not what the polls or the media thought was right. Rest in peace my friend, you have truly earned it!
Now THAT is a Lady !
Damn that was all it took to get the water flowing. I think I have something in my eye.
She is still magnificent: both as a private person and a politcal figure.
A great leader and a very classy lady. Were an American woman to come on the political scene like Lady Thatcher, I'd vote for her in a second.