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81 Mar 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: MT letter to Reagan (thanks for visit to Washington) ["We shall never have a happier visit"] [released 2012] |
81 Mar 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 9th (Civil Service Dispute, US, Soviet Union, Belize, EC Affairs, Marriage of the Prince of Wales) [declassified 2011] |
81 Mar 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Namibia: President Masire of Botswana letter to MT (future of Namibia) [thanks for support] [declassified 2011] |
81 Mar 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: Couzens letter to Sprinkel (Regan testimony to Congress re: MT's economic policies) [offers "one or two corrections"] [declassified 2010] |
81 Mar 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 (“French wheat sale to Soviet Union”) [UK registers protest at US green light for deal] [declassified 2012] |
81 Mar 1 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Visit of the Prime Minister and Lord Carrington to the USA: 25-28 February 1981”) [Reagan said he looked to the visit “as that of a leader who had a similar approach to international issues and economic policy”] [declassified 2014] |
81 Feb 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Richard Allen briefing for Reagan (farewell call from MT) [declassified ?2005] |
81 Feb 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: Reagan letter to MT (OSS award MT William J. Donovan Medal) [letter of congratulations] [released 2012] |
81 Feb 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: UKE Washington to FCO ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Mr Haig: North/South Summit") [Reagan to attend North/South summit] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: North/South summit”) [Reagan would attend if postponed and Castro not present] [declassified 2014] |
81 Feb 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“edited extracts of the Prime Minister’s tv interview) [foreign policy, arms control] [declassified 2014] |
81 Feb 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT-UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim) [new US Administration, Cold War, arms control, Namibia, Afghanistan, El Salvador, Middle East, UNIFIL, UNWRA] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT Engagement Diary |
81 Feb 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO note of conversation (Haig-Carrington meeting) [Libya, Middle East, China, Arms Control, relations with White House ("would resign" if his authority challenged)] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 note ("Presents Given to the Prime Minister: Washington and New York") [MT's visit to the US] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War & Middle East: National Security Council minutes (El Salvador & Saudi F15s) (NSC 004) [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (Donald Regan criticism of UK economic policy) [Regan ‘plain talk’ ruffles diplomatic feathers during MT visit] [declassified 2014] |
81 Feb 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT Engagement Diary |
81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Ed Thomas note to Ed Meese on US takeover of British engineering firm (Governor of Texas requests his intervention) [declassified ?2005] |
81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | US: Martin Anderson note to senior White House Staff (“Reaganism & Thatcherism” - stresses differences of economic approach) [declassified ?2005] |
81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO note of conversation (Haig-Carrington meeting) [France, Germany, NATO, Afghanistan, Middle East] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: White House Press Briefing (MT visit) [distance between British & US approach to the economy] |
81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: MT's invitation to White House dinner [released 2012] |
81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: MT notes for speech on arrival at White House (first visit to US since Reagan's election) [released 2012] |
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 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] |
81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 note of conversation (Reagan-Thatcher meeting) [plenary session] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Senate Members) [Reagan Administration, defence, nuclear weapons, Soviet Union, Poland, economy, socialism, NATO] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US House of Representatives Members) [Reagan Administration, economy, Anglo-Irish relations, Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe, defence, Poland, Arab-Israeli conflict, NATO] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT Engagement Diary |
81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Henderson (Sir Nicholas) diary | Cold War: Sir Nicholas Henderson diary (MT visit to Washington) |
81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC & British schedules for MT visit (drafts) [declassified 2006] |
81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | France: MT message to President Giscard (MT's visit to the US, fisheries, New Zealand Butter) [released 2012] |
81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Germany: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Schmidt) [MT's forthcoming meeting with Reagan] [released 2012] |
81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC-State department planning for MT visit (agreeing MT should have one on one meeting with Reagan) [declassified 2005] |
81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Trade: Conservative Research Department briefing for Conservative MPs (“Textiles, clothing and footwear”) [declassified 2012] |
81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“26th Congress of the CPSU: Brezhnev’s speech”) [declassified 2012] |
81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: UKE Washington to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit") [Henderson's redraft of MT's speech for White House dinner] [released 2012] |
81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to the United States - Northern Ireland") [account of meeting of US/Northern Ireland representatives] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 21 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: UKE Washington to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit") [suggested approach for MT in talks with Reagan] [released 2012] |
81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC draft guidance for press on MT visit (“upbeat bad news”) [declassified 2005] |
81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: UKE Washington to FCO ("Initial Reactions to Reagan's Programme for US Economic Recovery") [response in Congress and on Wall Street] [released 2012] |
81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: FCO briefing for MT (Prime Minister’s visit to Washington) [talks with Reagan; meetings on the Hill; US space programme budget cuts; honorary degree ceremony; Donovan award; Economic Industrial Lunch] [declassified 2014] |
81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC memorandum to Vice-President Bush (urges he meet Carrington whose “support (and restraint) will be critical”) [declassified 2006] |
81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 ("Central America") [background briefing] [released Dec 2017] |
81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Namibia: MT letter to President Masire of Botswana (future of Namibia) [MT agrees with Masire's views] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Henderson (Sir Nicholas) diary | Cold War: Sir Nicholas Henderson diary (MT nervous about coming Washington visit) |
81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War & Middle East: National Security Council minutes (Caribbean Basin & F15s) (NSC 003) [declassified 2007] |
81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (inauguration) [unclassified] |
81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: Reagan letter to MT (thanks for message of congratulations on inaugration) [released 2012] |
81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: President Reagan letter to MT (MT visit to US) [inauguration] [declassified 2012] |
81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Al Haig briefing for President Reagan (MT visit, with copy of her final schedule) [declassified 2006] |
81 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Germany: UKE Bonn letter to FCO ("Farewell Call on the Chancellor") [account of UK Ambassador's final meeting with Schmidt] [released 2012] |
81 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: Text of New York Times article ("Mrs. Thatcher is Confident of Close Ties with Reagan") [released 2012] |
81 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: State Department briefing for President Reagan (“Essential Issues Papers”) [declassified 2006] |
81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Briefing for American Correspondents in London") [arrangements for on-the-record briefing] [released 2012] |
81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Firearms for the RUC") [US ban on export licences] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Overseas aid: Lord Carrington minute to MT (“International Development Association: 6th replenishment: bridging arrangements: Parliamentary timetable”) [declassified 2012] |
81 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: Lankester minute to Walters ("Georgetown University Speech") [Walters' draft for MT's speech and comments] [released 2012] |
81 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Nott minute to MT (“A Review of NATO”) [objectives] [declassified 2013] |
81 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Italy/US: White House record of conversation (Reagan-Foreign Minister Colombo) [expressions of mutual regard; TNF; Italy as a "difficult democracy"] [declassified 2006] |
81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Monetary policy: No.10 minute (MT meeting with Paul Volcker, chairman Federal Reserve) [prospects of the Reagan Administration; monetary control, etc] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: National Security Council minutes (“Central America [& Taiwan]”) (NSC 002) [declassified 2007] |
81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (importance of the US-UK relationship) [unclassified] |
81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: MT letter to Reagan (thanks for message of congratulations regarding MT's speech the Pilgrim's Dinner) [special relationship] [released 2012] |
81 Feb 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversations ("Ottawa summit and meeting of Personal Representatives") [Sir Robert Armstrong, Allan Gotlieb] [declassified Dec 2011] |
81 Feb 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Nott-Carrington) [future defence policy] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 8 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: Sherman paper for MT ("Potential snags in Anglo-American relations") [Reaganites since election "brutally differentiated themselves" from MT's government] [declassified 2010] |
81 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Poland") ["the slide to anarchy in Poland is reaching such a point that the Soviet Union may find it impossible not to intervene"] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: National Security Council minutes (“Caribbean Basin & Poland”) (NSC 001) [preliminary discussion] [declassified 2007] |
81 Feb 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC planning for MT visit (dinner guests) [declassified 2006] |
81 Feb 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Namibia: President Masire of Botswana letter to MT (future of Namibia) [need to resist calls for sanctions; appeals to MT to impress upon Reagan need for positive US influence] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: Armstrong minute to Alexander ("Prime Minister's Visit to the United States: 25-28 February") [UK priorities and objectives] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Dutch Ambassador to London, Robbert Fack) [MT's visit to the Netherlands] [declassified 2011] |
81 Feb 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: FCO to No.10 ("Visit to Britain by President Reagan") [problems with state visits of US Presidents to the UK] [declassified 2012] |
81 Feb 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (the special relationship) [declassified 1997] |
81 Feb 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: Reagan letter to MT (congratulations on MT's speech to the Pilgrim's Dinner) [concern for "democracy and liberty" is "the essence of the special relationship"] [released 2012] |
81 Feb 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: President Reagan letter to MT (MT speech to the Pilgrims’ Dinner) [declassified 2012] |
81 Jan 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Time") [arrangements for interview; comment on Labour party divisions, US, Northern Ireland] [released 2012] |
81 Jan 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 4th (Parliamentary Affairs, US, Namibia, Poland, Afghanistan, Soviet Union, Israel, Iran, EC, Scrutiny of Department Running Costs) [declassified 2011] |
81 Jan 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC discussion of Thatcher visit (disinclination to accept return event at British Embassy) [declassified 2006] |
81 Jan 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC discussion of Thatcher visit (urges accepting invitation to return event at British Embassy) [declassified 2006] |
81 Jan 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Hugh Thomas letter to MT (President Reagan) [evaluation by Dr Edward Luttwak] [declassified 2012] |
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] |
81 Jan 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: FCO to No.10 ("Visit to Britain by President Reagan") [MT: "I think it would be very nice if it were a state visit - even without an open carriage ride"] [declassified 2012] |
81 Jan 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (inaugural congratulations) [unclassified] |
81 Jan 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Armstrong minute to MT ("Defence Estimates 1981/82: Flotation of British Aerospace") [declassified 2011] |
81 Jan 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Nott-Carrington-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Joseph-Havers) ["Defence Expenditure and BAe Flotation"] [declassified 2011] |
81 Jan 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Namibia: UKE Washington to FCO ("U.S. Policy on Namibia") [declassified 2011] |
81 Jan 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Nott minute to MT ("Defence Estimates 1981/82") [further adjustments to defence programme] [declassified 2011] |
81 Jan 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Namibia: UKE Washington to FCO ("Namibia") [Reagan Administration "likely to be hostile to the idea of sanctions" against South Africa] [declassified 2011] |
81 Jan 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Namibia: FCO UKE Washington ("Namibia") [need to persuade incoming Reagan Administration to encourage South Africa to engage with Namibia independence negotiations] [declassified 2011] |
81 Jan 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Energy: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Energy Prices") [briefing for meeting with Howell and Chancellor of the Exchequer] [declassified 2011] |
81 Jan 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Energy: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("Energy Prices") [need to assist British industry with energy prices; competition with EC and US] [declassified 2011] |
81 Jan 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: No.10 letter to Dept of Energy (Guangdong Nuclear Power Station) [directive to discuss with French but keep other options open] [declassified 2012] |
81 Jan 4 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Ingham minute for MT ("Note for the Record") ["Rupert Murdoch Lunch"] [released 2012] |
81 Jan 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Angola: visit of Savimbi") [case against MT meeting with leader of UNITA guerrilla movement] [declassified Jan 2014] |
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 Dec 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Press Office: Press Office memo ("Review of the Year") [main events in 1980] [released 2011] |
80 Dec 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Hugh Thomas minute to MT ("A Western policy towards the Soviet economy") ["Mr. Reagan's administration may be interested in a radical approach of this nature"] [released 2013] |
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