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Date |
Category | Type | Value | Author/Source | Title |
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| 75 Apr 9 We | Press |
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Major | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Early meeting with Ronald Reagan [memoirs extract] |
| 75 Apr 9 We | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | MT met Ronald Reagan for the first time (or possibly the second) |
| 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] |
| 78 Nov 27 Mo | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | MT met Ronald Reagan for the second time (or possibly the third) |
| 78 Dec 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (thanks for meeting; defence) [released 2007] |
| 80 Jan 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: Ray Whitney to Geoffrey Howe (US-UK relations) [“there is a widespread fear among the incoming Administration of being ‘Thatcherised’”] [released 2017] |
| 80 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kissinger) [US Administration, Iran, East/West relations, Arab-Israeli dispute, Western summit] [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Jun 25 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference for American correspondents in London |
| 80 Jul 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT Engagement Diary |
| 80 Jul 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: Gordon Reece note for MT (account of visit to Washington DC) [meeting presidential campaign teams] [released 2011] |
| 80 Jul 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: Gordon Reece minute to MT (US Presidential Campaign teams) ["Reagan's is far and away the richest and also the least media dominated group"] [released 2011] |
| 80 Jul 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Armstrong minute to Alexander (report of conversation with Chancellor Schmidt) [acquiring Trident: Armstrong delivers MT's personal message; Schmidt recounts visit to Moscow] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Aug 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“United States monthly economic report for July 1980”) [“decline in US economic activity is continuing”] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Aug 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Press Office: Transcript of 'Special Edition' radio programme (Richard Staley reports on interview with MT) [released 2011] |
| 80 Oct 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Anglo-Guatemalan Negotiations Over Belize (OD(80) 59)") [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Nov 4 Tu | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Reagan elected US President |
| 80 Nov 5 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Letter to President-elect Reagan (invitation to visit Britain) |
| 80 Nov 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yue-Kong Pao) [shipbuilding contracts and the new Chinese and US regimes] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Nov 6 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 80 Nov 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 39th (1981-82 Cash Limits & Votes, Rate Support Grant Supplement 1981-82, Public Expenditure 1981-82, etc) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Nov 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Paris letter to FCO (US election result) [notes MT likely to get on particularly well with Reagan] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Nov 10 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
| 80 Nov 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: President-elect Reagan letter to MT (thanks for her congratulations) [looks forward to another meeting] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Nov 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Health of the Alliance”) [proposed review of NATO to reduce UK contribution to budget] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Nov 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | France: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Giscard) [military spending, election of Reagan, Schmidt visit to US, East/West relations] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Nov 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland (OD(80) 67 and 68)") [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Nov 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Labour: MT letter to Paul [Johnson] (significance of Michael Foot's election as Labour leader) ["I fear it will start with mob oratory in an attempt to create disorder"] [released 2011] |
| 80 Nov 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: MT letter to Paul Johnson (Reagan's election and Foot as Labour leader) ["I fear [Foot's leadership] will start with mob oratory"] [released 2011] |
| 80 Nov 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Schmidt) [Carrington's visit to Eastern Europe, NATO, Middle East and South West Asia, Quadripartite Consultation, Arab-Israeli Conflict, EC affairs, Anglo-French bilateral relations, Spain, defence] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Nov 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: Carrington minute to Pym (“COCOM: defence sales to China”) [UK seeks to reassure allies] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Nov 20 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on the Address] |
| 80 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 letter to FCO (“Contacts with the Reagan team”) [proposed MT first meeting with Reagan as President] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: MT letter to Sir Robert Thompson (Thompson's discussion with Nixon, views of Reagan's administration) [Soviet influence in the third world] [released 2011] |
| 80 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | France: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Giscard) [MT's conversation with Schmidt, Middle East, quadripartite summit, Commission portfolios, New Zealand, Luxembourg] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Nov 23 Su | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Chancellor Schmidt) [Schmidt's visit to Washington, Reagan's Administration, arms control negotiations] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Dec 3 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Luxembourg European Council] |
| 80 Dec 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Trade: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Textiles”) [problem of US imports] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Dec 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Japan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Japanese Foreign Minister, Japanese Ambassador) [oil prices; Middle East; MT views on Carter and Reagan administrations; MT views on place of human rights in foreign policy; Poland] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 80 Dec 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Poland") [discussion of situation in Poland at Foreign Ministers' dinner: contingency planning for Soviet intervention in Poland] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Dec 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: FCO to UKE Washington ("Belize/Guatemala") ["Apparent hardening of the Guatemalan position...may not be unconnected with their hopes for better understanding and support from the Reagan Administration"; need to brief Haig] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Dec 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Washington to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") ["The apparent hardening of the Guatemalan position may indeed owe something to their expectation that US/Guatemalan relations will improve under a Reagan Administration"] [declassified 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] |
| 80 Dec 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Pym-Carrington-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Defence Estimates 1981/82"] [declassified 2011] |
| 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] |
| 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 4 Su | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Radio Interview for BBC Radio 4 The World this Weekend |
| 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 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 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 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 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 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 20 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 81 Jan 20 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Letter to President-elect Reagan ("your inauguration ... a symbol of hope for the Alliance") |
| 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 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 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 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 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 27 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 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 | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at the Pilgrims’ Dinner |
| 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 31 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Finchley Conservatives (no U turns) |
| 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 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 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 | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 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 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 | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 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 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 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 10 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 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 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 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 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 16 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference for Association of American Correspondents in London |
| 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 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 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) |
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