Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 8 April 1982

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/4
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room following MT's resignation but before 1992. The handwritten original has also been studied and material from that source has sometimes been added in, with explicit notes to that effect. The handwritten volumes will eventually make their way to TNA.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p
Themes:	Defence (Falklands)

Thursday 8 April 1982

0815

Hair

0900

Questions briefing

0955

Left No. 10

1015

Questions

1030

Returned to No. 10

1100

OD(SA) [Willie Whitelaw, Francis Pym, John Nott, Cecil Parkinson, Sir Robert Armstrong, R.L. Wade-Gery, R.L.L. Facer]

1300

Lunch with Private Secretaries

1430

Sir John King, Mr. Dibbs, Mr. Wheatly and S/S Trade [Lord Cockfield]

1500

Sir Laurens van der Post

1530

Sir Robert Armstrong to discuss senior appointments

1630

Sir Michael Palliser

1800

Talks with Secretary Haig + FCS [Francis Pym], Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw], S/S Defence [John Nott], CDS [Chief of the Defence Staff, Sir Terence Lewin]

1900

Dinner for Secretary Haig

2340

Left for Chequers

MT Engagement Diary