Speeches, etc.

Margaret Thatcher

Speech at McDonald’s Child of Achievement Awards Ceremony

Document type: Speeches, interviews, etc.
Venue: Guildhall, City of London
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Between 1100 and 1340. MT presented awards to 150 children. She was photographed in The Times (8 February 1990) hugging a little girl whose eyes had been removed to combat a rare form of cancer. She described the children as "VEPS - very exceptional people". Other cuttings in the file (THCR 6/2/2/237 f118) record her saying of the winners: "Each of you has lit a lamp, each one of you, and these lamps stretch out along the way to the future, their light on it making it a way of hope".

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