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Thatcher, Gorbachev to Attend Reagan Funeral

VOA News
07 Jun 2004, 16:49 UTC

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev are among the prominent figures planning to attend Friday's state funeral for Ronald Reagan at Washington's National Cathedral.

The former British leader has given up public speaking after a series of strokes, but will deliver a vidoetaped eulogy recorded several months before Mr. Reagan's death.

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The former British leader has given up public speaking after a series of strokes, but will deliver a vidoetaped eulogy recorded several months before Mr. Reagan's death.

I'm glad she did that. She may have been worried she wouldn't be able to speak at the time he dies, or that she would pass first. She and Abigail Adams are my role models.