Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 4 December 1979

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/1
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room at some point following MT’s resignation. The original remained in the custody of the Cabinet Office. The text differs in places from a second MS text of the diary at THCR 6/1/1/30, which probably derived from MT’s office at the House of Commons: elements from that second document have been added to this online version where they add material of substance (and explicitly noted as such).
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Tuesday 4 December 1979

0800

Breakfast [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, John Biffen & John Nott]

0900

Meeting to discuss USA speeches

0945

Messrs. Gow, [Derek] Howe, Ingham and Sanders

1000

Geoffrey Chandler, Director General of NEDC

1030

E Committee [Willie Whitelaw, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, Jim Prior, Sir Keith Joseph, David Howell, Lord Carrington, Lord Soames, John Nott, John Biffen]

1300

Lunch in Study and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1530

Mr. Yitzhak Shamir, Speaker of the Knesset

1615

Tea for King and Queen of Tonga

1700

Sir Derek Rayner and others

1830

Audience

2030

Dined at the House of Commons with Ian Gow

2130

Bernard Ingham - H/C

Kept free for Press Gallery Lunch speech

2200

Three line whip

MT Engagement Diary