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| 85 Dec 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [MT, Whitelaw, Brittan, Heseltine, Tebbit, Lawson] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (‘Westlands’) [investigates Heseltine claim that cabinet committee meeting was cancelled] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Westland: Heseltine letter & minute for MT (‘Westland plc’) [“the Government should indicate, at least informally, that … it would prefer a British/European solution … will not be an easy one for you”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [if Bristow withdraws, encourage creditors to instal new management] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 93 Dec 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (HM Treasury) | EMS: Treasury minute (“The ERM Project”) [lengthy analysis of decision to join & policy during membership] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005] |
| 83 May 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | City: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, Trade Secretary, Governor of the Bank of England) [possible abandonment of Stock Exchange RPC case] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jun 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | City: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, Trade & Industry Secretary, Governor of the Bank of England) [confirms 6 May decision to exempt] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jul 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | City: Parkinson minute to MT (“Stock Exchange & Restrictive Practices Court”) [seeks permission to negotiate a settlement] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jan 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Walters MSS) | Alan Walters diary (1981) [whole year transcribed as a single document] [released 2013] |
| 80 Jan 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Gibraltar: FCO letter to British Embassy Madrid (“The Armero Affair” ) [Lisbon Declaration negotiations] [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Mar 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Hong Kong: MT letter to Chinese Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang (future of Hong Kong) [declassified 2013] |
| 79 May 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | General Election: MT draft (St Francis’s Prayer) [“moving & beautiful song of St Francis”] [released 2015] |
| 83 Apr 3 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [personal account of her conduct of the war] [released 2015] |
| 85 Mar 16 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT memoir (“Return to Moscow”) [personal account of Chernenko’s funeral] [released 2015] |
| 83 Apr 3 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [1992 photocopy of text] [released 2015] |
| 83 Apr 3 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [1992 photocopy of text] [released 2015] |
| 83 Nov 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | US: Coles minute to Armstrong [MT doubts McFarlane’s value as an interlocutor; thinks US advance notice of Grenada quite inadequate] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 May 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Middleton says Wass & Ryrie opposed £1b extra tax in budget; Brittan and Howe agreed with their view that “you must not put interest rates down if you had to put them up again!!”] [released 2012] |
| 81 May 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Rates: Rifkind minute to MT (Scottish Conservative Conference debate on domestic rates) [“rates are… becoming an explosive political issue”] [declassified 2012] |
| 85 Jan 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Norman Tebbit to MT (thanks for her support during his recovery) [returning to cabinet] [released 2015] |
| 85 Jul 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Michael Alison letter to MT (encouragement) [awesome achievements; Good Samaritan & Moses] [released 2015] |
| 85 Sep 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Reshuffle: Gummer letter to MT (regrets at leaving CCO, accepts new job, her vital role) ["you ought not to entertain thoughts of the kind you raised latterly with me"] [released 2015] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig telegram to Vernon Walters ("Falklands Dispute") ["Brits in warlike mood - high strung, unpredictable … UK probably wants big sea battle to give Thatcher a 'victory' … Must stop their fleet"] [declassified 2001] |
| 85 Jun 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: MT letter to Walters (inflation and monetary control) [MT: “I am very worried about M3, the Bill mountain, the rate of inflation and rising property prices”] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 17 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with Kohl: 21 September”) [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Sep 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Education: Baker minute for MT (thoughts on future education policy) [ for your eyes only at this stage ] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Apr 12 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to President Mitterrand (requests immediate decision on overflight request) [warns against "luke-warm support or no support at all from our closest allies"] [declassified 2005] |
| 85 Aug 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (“Real Lives”) [Chairman clashes with Director-General; DG's statement revised] [released 2015] |
| 85 Aug 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (“Real Lives”) [Milne: Real Lives "had to hit the air if this place is to run properly"] [released 2015] |
| 86 Oct 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Poindexter memo for President Reagan ("Why We Can't Commit to Eliminating All Nuclear Weapons Within 10 Years") [focus instead on proposal to eliminate all ballistic nuclear missiles in ten years, as handed to Soviets at Reykjavik] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Aug 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | National Health: Norman Fowler minute for Whitelaw (“AIDS - Public Education”) [proposes leaflet delivered to every household] [declassified 2015] |
| 86 Jan 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Westland: Solicitor-General letter to Heseltine ('Westland') ["material inaccuracies" in Heseltine's earlier letter to Horne which he should correct; Powell annotates it "very satisfactory"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jan 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Westland: Heseltine letter to Solicitor-General ('Westland') [no "material inaccuracies" needing correction] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jan 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Westland: Solicitor-General letter to Heseltine ('Westland') [glad that Heseltine is confident his earlier letter was accurate, judgment his responsibility; concern at leak however] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Westland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Wicks, Brittan) [Brittan critical of Armstrong evidence, "a flagrant steer … in a particular direction which he could not accept"] [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Jun 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (US State Dept) | China: White House/State Department memorandum ("Themes") [paper for Scowcroft/Eagleburger secret mission to Beijing] [declassified 1998] |
| 89 May 20 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | China: UKE Beijing to FCO ("Chinese Internal Situation") [US believes "Chinese Government has decided that there is no way to avoid bloodshed"] [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Jun 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | China: No.10 minute for MT ('China') [situation developing "very fast", possible UK measures; "you can probably afford to step up further your condemnation of what is happening"] [declassified 2016] |
| 88 Sep 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | China: Cradock minute for MT ("China: position of Zhao Ziyang") [rumours his position under threat, but UKE in Beijing thinks it remains strong; Cradock thinks reform likely to slow down] [declassified 2016] |
| 85 Dec 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Westland: MT letter to Michael Heseltine (ultimatum "drafted but not sent") [“In this situation no Minister should use his position to promote one commercial option in preference to another - so long as he remains in Government”] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Jan 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Westland: MT speaking notes (necessity of restoring collective responsibility) [“must restore govt’s standing & observe conclusions of 19th Dec”] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Feb 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: Ingham minute for MT ("Language/Vision") [“your domination of politics and intellectual argument - need to maintain flow of ideas and for "new and more appealing language … the, to you, hateful word 'vision'”] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Jan 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: Lobby Briefing ("Resignation of Michael Heseltine over Westland Helicopters Affair") [12.10pm, including Downing Street statement] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Jan 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: Lobby Briefing ("Resignation of Mr Heseltine, Rates, Channel Fixed Link") [17.30pm, reaction to Heseltine press conference at MoD; "resigned on a very narrow point of procedure"] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Feb 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Westland: Robert Armstrong letter to MT (thanks) [devoutly hopes his evidence to the Select Committee “will have helped to take the heat out of the affair”] [released Jan 2017] |
| 82 Dec 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: Ian Gow minute for MT (“Nicholas Ridley”) [“wonders whether you are displeased with him because of the Falklands matter”; if not in cabinet after next election wants EC Commissionership] [released 2017] |
| 83 Jan 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Michael Jopling minute to MT (Whip’s office) [John Major “will be a considerable asset to the Whips Office”; MT comment: ‘Excellent’] [released 2017] |
| 88 Apr 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Education: Baroness Cox MP & colleagues letter to MT (Christian content of religious education) [proposed amendents to Education Reform Bill] [declassified 2016] |
| 13 Apr 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Order of Service ("The Funeral Service of of The Right Honourable The Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven LG, OM, FRS") [MT's ceremonial funeral at St Paul's Cathedral] |
| 87 Jun 21 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | General Election: MT speaking notes (acknowledging victory) ["More choice in education & housing / especially for those in inner cities"] [released Oct 2017] |
| 87 Nov 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Monetary policy: MT interview for Financial Times [includes unpublished material on shadowing the DM] [released Oct 2017] |
| 90 Nov 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: UK position paper ("Iraq/Kuwait: UK Position Paper") [Strategic Objectives, Military Objectives, Guidance to military commanders, Co-ordination with allies] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Butler minute for Powell ("Gulf Business Note") [summarises work in preparation and agenda for OD(G) for following month; MT critical, worried over leaks] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 88 Sep 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Europe/Bruges speech: Alan Clark minute for MT ("The Bruges Speech") ["The speech is of crucial importance .... will signal our attitudes todevelopments in the Community both micro and macro over the next decade"] [released Jul 2018] |
| 89 May 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Walters minute to MT ("When 'The Time Will Be Ripe'") [proposals to restate British position on ERM entry in positive terms "which will, nevertheless, preserve our position"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 89 Jun 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Madrid summit") [post mortem - "judgment of [Howe & Lawson]... was faulty" - no pressure to set date for entry; setting a date would not have forestalled future work on Stages 2 & 3] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 89 May 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Economic Policy: Walters minute to MT ("When "The Time Will Be Ripe"") ["we always appear to be negative [on EMS].... this note atttempts to set out a positive response"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 81 Aug 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | MT: Hoskyns, Wolfson and Millar memo for MT ("Your Political Survival") ["The Blockbuster" memo - "Your own management competence, like that of most of your colleagues, is almost non-existent ... Your own Leadership style is wrong"] [released 2016] |
| 79 May 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | General Election: MT to John Hoskyns (letter of thanks) ['invaluable' contribution over past two years, "a new dimension to the way ... the Party thinks and operates"] |
| 83 Feb 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("A radical voucher scheme: Paper by the Secretary of State for Education and Science") ["entails radical changes in the law and some very difficult political choices... to give all parents financial power to choose a school and to bring about the greater diversity, improved efficiency and higher standards flowing from the exercise of that power"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 89 Jun 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Director Conservative Research Department briefing ("Report on 1989 Euro-Election Campaign") [too negative, substance not presentation the problem] [released Mar 2019] |
| 89 Nov 5 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: MT letter to Alan Walters (his resignation) [thanks, regrets, explanations] [released Mar 2019] |
| 89 Oct 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: MT memoir ("Nigel Lawson's Resignation Oct 1989") ["unless I agreed to sack Alan Walters, he would hand in his resignation ... an absurd, indeed reprehensible proposition"] [released Mar 2019] |
| 89 Dec 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Leadership election: Lennox-Boyd note for MT (leadership election post mortem) [about 50 voted for you "with reluctance", you are vulnerable if another 50 become reluctant; enclosures from Younger in preparation for meeting] [released Mar 2019] |
| 89 Nov 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: Wakeham minute for MT ("Electricity Privatisation and Nuclear Power") [necessity of retaining nuclear power in public sector if electricity privatisation is to go ahead in this parliament] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Dec 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: ("Iraq/Kuwait") [UK position paper] [declassified Jul 2018] |
| 86 Dec 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC note for ?Poindexter (MT letter to Reagan urging NATO commit to Camp David points) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 briefing for MT (Reagan-Thatcher discussions) [topics to raise] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jan 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: No.10 telcon (Reagan phone call to MT on inauguration day) [MT promises to brief him on her mistakes] [declassified 2010] |
| 82 Nov 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (reaction to death of Brezhnev) [agrees his view that "a more constructive East/West relationship is available" if new leaders "adopt a new approach"] [declassified 2010] |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT ("Response to Libyan terrorism") [seeks support for use of British based FB-111s to respond to Libyan attacks] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [reply to MT's points] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for her decision; targets] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for seeing Walters] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (UK hostages killed in Beirut) ["deeply grieved"; "direct Libyan role in their deaths"; French & Spanish "fully prepared to take more profound action to remove Qadhafi from power"] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: White House record of conversation (Reagan-MT) [Reykjavik summit] [declassified 2010] |
| 83 Sep 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: White House record of conversation (MT-Reagan, then lunch plenary) [Lebanon, East/West, arms control, KAL007, INF, Belize, US supply of arms to Argentina; Middle East, economy] [declassified 2008] |
| 81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: White House record of conversation (MT-Reagan plenary) [East/West, Central America especially Belize; jellybeans] [declassified 2012] |
| 89 Jan 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: President Reagan letter to MT (farewell) ["You have been an invaluable ally, but more than that, you are a great friend"] [released Mar 2019] |
| 89 Jan 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (farewell) ["You have been a great President, one of the greatest, because you stood for all that is best in America"] [released Mar 2019] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Camp David (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Apr 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Reagan telegram to Thatcher (will contact Galtieri) [declassified 2000] [20K scanned image] |
| 82 Nov 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Reagan letter to Thatcher (defends US stance at UN) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Dec 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Reagan letter to Thatcher (resuming US arms sales to Argentina) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Jan 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (inaugural congratulations) [unclassified] |
| 82 Oct 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Thatcher letter to Reagan (U.N. resolution unacceptable to UK) [summary declassified 2000] |
| 82 Jun 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Reagan telegram to Thatcher (victory congratulations & need for "a just peace") [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Nov 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher telegram to Reagan (congratulations on his reelection) [declassified 1998] |
| 83 Oct 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Grenada: Reagan phone call to Thatcher (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Oct 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Grenada: Reagan letter to Thatcher (thinking of intervening) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Oct 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Grenada: Reagan letter to Thatcher (decided to intervene) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Grenada: Reagan letter to Thatcher (intervention goes ahead) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Dec 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (Iran-Contra -"anything which weakens you weakens America") [declassified/released 2000] |
| 75 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (fall of Saigon) ["a dark day ... somehow the shadows seem to have lengthened"] [released 2003] |
| 89 Jan 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (farewell) [declassified 2000] |
| 89 Jan 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: MT letter to Reagan ("you stood for all that is best in America") [declassified 2000] |
| 89 Jan 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT letter to President Bush (congratulations) ["You bring to the Presidency enormous experience in Government which will be of immense value"] [released Mar 2019] |
| 82 Mar 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") ["we may now face the prospect of an early confrontation with Argentina"] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [report on Anglo-Argentine talks in New York] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Sep 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [state of play regarding Falklands dispute] [declassified 2012] |
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