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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan.Their strong bond epitomised UK–US relations in the late 20th century.. The Special Relationship is a term that is often used to describe the political, social, diplomatic, cultural, economic, legal, environmental, religious, military and historic relations between the United Kingdom and the United States or its ...
As a result, Thatcher was finally able to revitalize the economy and initiate the country's rise to become a globally important financial center. Thanks to her good personal relationship with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, she was able to revive the Special Relationship with the United States and counter the expansion of communism during the ...
Thatcher played a major role as a broker between Reagan and Gorbachev in 1985–87, with the successful negotiation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). The INF Treaty of December 1987, signed by Reagan and Gorbachev, eliminated all nuclear and conventional missiles, as well as their launchers, with ranges of 500–1,000 ...
The relationship between Thatcherism and liberalism is complicated. Thatcher's former defence secretary John Nott claimed that "it is a complete misreading of her beliefs to depict her as a nineteenth-century Liberal". [14] As Ellen Meiksins Wood has argued, Thatcherite capitalism was compatible with traditional British political institutions.
Thatcher maintained a long-standing relationship with the Heritage Foundation. In September 1991, shortly after Thatcher left office, the foundation hosted a dinner in Thatcher's honor. [ 153 ] Six years later, in 1997, Thatcher delivered the keynote address at Heritage's 25th anniversary celebration. [ 154 ]
At 11:30 pm London time on May 31, 1982, Reagan told Mrs Thatcher that "The best chance for peace was before complete Argentine humiliation", he told her. "As the UK now had the upper hand militarily, it should strike a deal now." and suggesting a multi-national, peacekeeping force.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher [nb 2] (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
Aldous has written books about Malcolm Sargent, Harold Macmillan, a twin-biography of Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, a study of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher's political relationship, a book on JFK's treasury secretary C. Douglas Dillon, as well as a biography of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.