As a conservative, I’m not a big fan of former President George W. Bush and resented that he didn’t attend Margaret Thatcher’s funeral.
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How many current and former presidents and heads of state attended Margaret Thatcher’s funeral?
Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu and 10 other prime ministers including Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former Australian premier John Howard, former US Vice President Dick Cheney, former US state secretary Henry Kissinger but no former U.S. presidents. Considering that it was a full-blown state funeral (Thatcher was British PM for 11 years) and Obama conspicuously stayed away, that former president G.W. Bush did not attend was a disappointment. Fortunately, I got over it.