Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 20 May 1980

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/2
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. Material has been added to this entry from the handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary, accessed at the Cabinet Office prior to transfer to TNA. The full text of that volume can be accessed here.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Tuesday 20 May 1980

0800

Breakfast ‘Old Team’ [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, John Biffen & John Nott]

0900

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

0915

Foreign Secretary [Lord Carrington] and Sir Michael Palliser (Afghanistan)

1015

Secretary of State for Education [Mark Carlisle]

1030

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

1200

Mr. van Straubenzee & officers of Education Committee plus Mr. Carlisle

1300

Questions briefing and lunch in Study

1515

Questions

Listened to statement by Lord Privy Seal [Sir Ian Gilmour] - H/C

1530

[Mr Ralph Howell MP [Re his “Why Work” Paper] - H/C [Chris Mockler sending brief from Research]]

1530

[Running 3 Line]

1630-1730

Talks with Dr. Waldheim, UN Secretary General

1730

Briefing meeting for Prime Minister Haughey [Foreign Sec (Lord Carrington), S/ NI (Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Humphrey Atkins), RA (Sir Robert Armstrong), K. Stowe, Robin Hayden, & BI (Bernard Ingham)]

2000

Dinner for Dr. Waldheim [+DT. Black Tie]

2145-2315

Reception for Dr. Waldheim [+DT]

[ PM paired all day]

MT Engagement Diary

Tuesday 20 May 1980

0800

0900

0915

1015

1030

1200

1300

1515

1530

1530

1630-1730

1730

2000

2145-2315

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