Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 2 February 1983

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/5
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 are now being deposited at TNA in the series PREM32; PREM32/17 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/5 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Wednesday 2 February 1983

0830

Meeting of Ministers re water strike [[Home Sec (Willie Whitelaw), S/ Env (Tom King), S/ Emp (Norman Tebbit), S/ Defence (Michael Heseltine), S/ Wales (Nicholas Edwards), S/ Scotland (George Younger), S/ NI (Jim Prior), Messrs Goodall, Gregson] [Vereker & BI (Bernard Ingham)] Giles Shaw]

0915

Sir Oulton Wade

0930

Mrs. John Smith [see THCR 1/3/10 f135] [wife of a British hostage or prisoner abroad? Met MT with her local MP, Ken Hargreaves (Hyndburn)] [via AJC (John Coles)]

1100

Meeting with American Journalists [Marilyn Atwood (Bureau Chief, Anchorage Times), Alan Emory (Watertown Daily Times, Andrew Glass (Cox Newspapers), John Hall (Washington Bureau Chief, Media General), David Hamilton (Newsday), Commander Thomas Hoivik (US Navy Proceedings Journal), Wilbur Landrey (Foreign Editor, St Petersburg Times), Carl Leubsdorf (Dallas Morning Star), John Maclean (Chicago Tribune Press Service), Max McCarthy (Washington Bureau Chief, Buffalo Evening News), James McCartney (Knight-Ridder Newspapers), John Panitza (Reader’s Digest), Harold Piper (Baltimore Sun), John Wallach (Foreign Editor, Hearst Newspapers)] [THCR 5/2/106 f28]

1145

1315

Lunch with Committee of London Clearing Bankers +MS [Michael Scholar] - 10 Lombard Street [Lunch + Parking for Detective & Driver]

1500

Mr. John Wlliott [sic: Elliott] [via RC (Robin Catford). If necessary]

1515

Moroccan Foreign Minister

1600

MISC 91

1700

Lord Watkinson [via Cab. Office door]

1800

Talks with President Mubarak of Egypt

2000

Dinner for President Mubarak +DT [Informal]

[PM paired all day] [THCR 6/1/2A/3]

MT Engagement Diary