Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 21 February 1985

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/7
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; PREM32/19 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/7 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Thursday 21 February 1985

[USA]

0700

Interviews with British radio and television and National Public Radio

0800-0930

Breakfast meeting at Residence

0930-0950

Meeting with the Hon. James Baker III, Secretary of the Treasury - Residence

1000

Press Conference at Embassy Rotunda

1035

Depart Residence for Department of Transportation

[Greeted by The Hon. Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of Transportation – engagement card, 1/7/41 f53]

1045

Meeting with the Hon. Elizabeth Dole

1120

Depart for Federal Reserve Building

Greeted by the Hon. Paul A. Volcker, Chairman Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System

Photocall

1130

Meeting with the Hon. Paul Volcker

1340

Depart for Residence [Engagement card (1/7/41 f52) has MT instead departing at 1210 for the Washington Monument Grounds, Reflecting Pool, where she was to have been met by the Hon. Kenneth W. Dam, Deputy Secretary of State, at 1215. Secretary Dam was to have escorted her to the Farewell Committee. MT was to have departed the Washington Monument Grounds for Andrews Air Force Base at 1220, arriving at 1230. There, she was to have been greeted by Brigadier Gen. Paul A. Harvey, Commander, 76th Airlift Division. The engagement card has MT departing Andrews Air Force Base at 1240 and arriving at Heathrow Southside at 0035, before returning to No. 10. THCR 1/10/81 f150 indicates that plans changed because MT’s flight was held up and lists “extra engagements”.]

1350

Arrive

1630

[Depart Residence for Air and Space Museum, Independence Avenue - THCR 1/10/81 f150]

1650

[Arrive Air and Space Museum - THCR 1/10/81 f150]

[Met by Acting Director, Dr Paul Hanley - THCR 1/10/81 f150]

[Escorted to Auditorium - THCR 1/10/81 f150]

[Film “Hail Columbia” (about the Space Shuttle) - THCR 1/10/81 f150]

1700

Visit Space Museum

1720-1815

[Tour of the Air and Space Museum - THCR 1/10/81 f150]

1815

[Depart Air and Space Museum for the Residence - THCR 1/10/81 f150]

1830

[Arrive Residence – THCR 1/10/81 f150]

1900

[Brief call by Deputy Secretary of State, Kenneth Dam, and Ambassador Selwa Roosevelt (Library) to bid farewell to the Prime Minister - THCR 1/10/81 f150]

2000

[Dinner - THCR 1/10/81 f150]

2200

Depart Andrews Air Force Base

[Engagement card (THCR 1/10/81 f150) has MT departing earlier in the day, arriving just after midnight at LHR. She was held up because of fog and the Air and Space Museum engagement]

MT Engagement Diary