Margaret Thatcher with President Jimmy Carter in December 1979. Months earlier, he had congratulated
her cooly on her election, calling it a 'tremendous personal victory for you'
Posted on 02/06/2010 7:39:02 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Newly released documents from Margaret Thatcher's first year in office reveal her widespread distrust of the Establishment - especially the BBC - and her growing impatience with the Carter administration
Margaret Thatcher with President Jimmy Carter in December 1979. Months earlier, he had congratulated
her cooly on her election, calling it a 'tremendous personal victory for you'
"Would you accept the Republican nomination for President in 1980?" Margaret Thatcher was asked at a Foreign Policy Association lunch in New York December 18, 1979.
The scribbled note, from an anonymous doting American, is just one of many documents released last week at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge. It indicates how, even within the first few months of her election, Thatcher had established a reputation in the United States as a staunch Right-winger.
The note is part of the first annual tranche of documents that will form the most accessible and complete record of any Prime Minister in British history, penetrating as never before the personal, party and press domains of No 10.
The documents are all being digitised, and many thousands from Cambridge, and the National Archives in Kew, are going online at the Thatcher Foundation's website. They contain many juicy titbits that delighted the media last weekend, notably her diet in the run-up to the 1979 general election, consisting of up to 28 eggs a week. But does this new online cornucopia offer us genuine meat?
The year 1979 was pivotal in post-war British history. It saw a tired and defeated Labour government swept from power, to be replaced by a Conservative administration led by the country's first female Prime Minister, who despite having led the Conservative Party for four years, was still largely unknown. Do the documents so far released allow
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“Thatcher and Carter: the not-so special relationship”
Thatcher = Special
Carter = not-so
The Iron Lady had a set, Carter … not so much.
Carter would be something she would wipe off her shoe with a stick.
Carter isn’t good enough to wash her dirty underclothes.
“I missed, and I do not miss!!??” - Steven Seagal from the movie “Hard to Kill”. Applies to Pres Carter.
Jimmy Carter, our first enthusiastically pro-abortion President. (Nixon and Ford were fairly quiet about their pro-abortionism.) Carter had a litmus test for all judicial nominees: They were asked point-blank what they thought of abortion and Roe v. Wade. And the Baby-Killing Party being what it is, the vast majority of people in the Carter administration were pro-aborts.
That is one sad photograph. What an ugly, ugly man Carter is. Inside and out.
I could see how having a brother like Billy would make one consider the wisdom of being pro-choice...at least once.
She was twice the man that Carter is.
I pray that people of common sense and good will come forward and run for office. We need people with the stuff to say no to the thugs(that includes RINOS)that are there now.
"That is one sad photograph. What an ugly, ugly man Carter is. Inside and out."
It looks like Lady Thatcher knows exactly who that Carter guy is.
yitbos
Just what I thought of the picture; it really captures his character; Rosalyn looks like somebody likeable, but from what little I’ve ever read of her, she’s just as nasty.
Newly released documents from Margaret Thatcher's first year in office reveal her widespread distrust of the Establishment -- especially the BBC -- and her growing impatience with the Carter administration... "Would you accept the Republican nomination for President in 1980?" Margaret Thatcher was asked at a Foreign Policy Association lunch in New York December 18, 1979. The scribbled note, from an anonymous doting American, is just one of many documents released last week... The year 1979 was pivotal in post-war British history. It saw a tired and defeated Labour government swept from power, to be replaced by a Conservative administration led by the country's first female Prime Minister, who despite having led the Conservative Party for four years, was still largely unknown.Thanks bruinbirdman.
You give Carter too much credit.
Thatcher clearly loves America and tried to support Carter whenever he did the right thing, but would let him know when she disapproved.
Miz Lillian once said, “Sometimes, I look at my children and say to myself, ‘Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.’”
This was a well-known quotation during the Carter years.
Miz Lillian once said, “Sometimes, I look at my children and say to myself, ‘Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.’”
This was a well-known quotation during the Carter years.
“You give Carter too much credit.”
You are right! much lower like something that feeds off it!
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