Tag Archives: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

Tracy LDN: Margaret Thatcher- The Downing Street Years

Source: Tracey LDN: Margaret Thatcher- The Downing Street Years Margaret Thatcher coming to power in Britain in 1979 is very similar to Ronald Reagan coming to power in America in 1981. Both countries economies were in very bad shape with high … Continue reading

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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: Speech at the White House (12/17/79)

Source:The New Democrat This speech was given about three weeks after the Iranian hostage crisis in which Iranian Islamists took fifty Americans, working at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, hostage in November of 1979.  This was Thatcher’s first visit to … Continue reading

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Reason: John Blundell: Margaret Thatcher, Meryl Streep and The Iron Lady: Fact vs. Fiction

Source:The Daily Post I saw the Iron Lady, the Meryl Streep bio movie about former United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher back in May. And I was expecting a great movie about one of the most important world leaders, in … Continue reading

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