>> safer: margaret thatcher is 86 now.er mother's slide into the darkness of dementia. the film tackles the issue head on. did you have any concerns about showing this once remarkably vital woman having lost it all? >> streep: well, that was the part that most intrigued me. first of all, i don't... i don't feel there's any shame in dementia, in people that suffer it. >> and you're not prime minister anymore. >> streep: to tell an honest story about a big life in its ebb, you have to deal with this part of it. >> safer: there's one observation that gets her back up-- when people note that she's played a lot of strong-minded women. >> streep: no one has ever asked an actor, "you're playing a strong-minded man." we assume that men are strong- minded or have opinions, but a strong-minded woman is a different animal. >> streep: margaret thatcher said, ( as margaret thatcher ): "if you want something spoken about, ask a man. if you want it done, ask a woman." ( cheers and applause ) >> safer: wandering the massachusetts countrys

margaret thatcher it is there is no alternative. of course that's absurd. there was an alternative. we have to connect the dots to understand what is going on today. i read the chronicle. so what i've done is put together a montage of the murder of public sector, which is going on everyday. in fact all of the public sector is in body shape. public libraries, parks from the municipal to the national level. our character is among the worst in the world. the new deal deals with things in a different way. when i was going to school, california school's were the best. now they are among the worst with the new budget cuts. of course, my university is being privatized. all of the higher education is being privatized. all through the uc system. how do you run a modern state with tax cuts? we resort to desperate, back last november, we were asked to vote to make four indian casinos in san diego county pony up money. i thought this was a joke. they voted to do it. now, the governor proposes to borrow against future revenues. how did they deal with these social problems when the economic probl

charles poll, who served as private secretary to both john major and margaret thatcher, told me that the queen knows every inch of this country in a way no one else does. she spends so much time meeting people that she has an understanding of what other people's lives are like. she understands what the normal human condition is. she is also spend an extraordinary amount of time honoring citizens and members of the military for exemplary service. in 60 years she has conferred more than 400,000 honors and awards, and given them in person over 600 times. people need pats on the back sometimes, she has said. it's a very dingy world otherwise. traveling with the queen was particularly valuable, especially the overseas royal tour i took to bermuda and trinidad. she was 83 years old at the time, and her program called for long days of meeting and greeting. her stamina was impressive. matched only by 88-year-old prince phillip. whenever they go off on a trip together like that, the lord chamberlain always accompanies them to the airport, and phillip turns around and waves at him and says, mi

margaret thatcher sandra day o'connor is your immediate predecessor. why did you do this? >> first of all, the president of the college made a very compelling case. first of all, the predecessors that you mentioned but the first chancellor after president was gorge washington. >> rose: simultaneous to being president. >> he was chancellor through 11 years, through his entire presidency. and i figured if i could sit in the chair he sat in that would be worth the price of admission. >> rose: william and mary is an interesting college because so many presidents came here, from thomas jefferson to james monroe also the great scholar jon stewart of comedy fame came here. >> exactly. >> rose: when you look ahead to your life what do you hope to accomplish? well, i'm writing two books. the first is a memoir of my time as secretary of defense under president obama and president bush. it was a unique time and a unique experience working under two presidents, two different parties, never been done before and i also want to write about how you lead change in big public institutions.

. >> for the french, she is a mixture of joan of arc and margaret thatcher, and she is very popular. in the subconscious of the french, that couple still exists somehow. so we are experiencing an unbelievable situation that never existed before, is sort of love triangle. >> so this with smooch and obvious devotion for his beloved rally. that was hollande's way of making things clear on election night. there the first unmarried french presidential couple. hollande is familiar with protocol, but she it seems still has to find her way and the public stage. >> swedish furniture giant ikea is famous for its friendly customer service and likes to market itself as a good place to work, but now that image may be tarnished. until the berlin wall fell, the assembly network included sites in what was then a communist east germany, and it turns out the work force there included political prisoners who were forced to work. ikea has condemned the use of forced labor but says that if it did happen, then without its knowledge, but it has announced that it was to clarify the issue, a first step in he

most of us present here today recognize with great enthusiasm the influence that ronald reagan, margaret thatcher and pope john paul ii had on ending the cold war and bringing an end to communist rule in the former soviet union and eastern europe. what is not so well-known is the powerful influence of the millennium celebrations which is called the baptist of the roots which took place in 1998. mikail gorbachev lifted the lid off of religious freedom and would not go back on. the russian orthodox church was up from the underground and there was no going back. holy mother russia turned quickly into the godless bolshevik state. the religion and religious liberties were under attack, large portions of the faithful simply remained silent. we can't afford to not learn from this historical lesson that is only one of many that are almost identical. in his book," the rebellion of ronald reagan," the author wrote religion has been a central component of interest in soviet union. in russia i say religion is alive. beleaguered, tormented but alive. he had written this after her first visit to the soviet uni

. >> livingston is an outspoken figure famous for his opposition to margaret thatcher in the 1980's and for his passion for news. mr. livingston has based his manifesto about a promise to cut transport fares. >> i cut the bus fares by 9%. >> but his campaign has suffered from headlines about his own tax affairs. that has led to charges of hypocrisy. boris johnson and ken livingston of larger-than-life characters. the race to be mayor of this olympic city is pretty unique. even so, the result will inevitably be scrutinized for what it tells us about the the border fate of british politics. >> this is bbc world news. now the headlines. chinese dissident chen guangcheng says that he fears for his life, raising tensions with the u.s. as the high-level talks get under way. two men fighting for the french presidency accuse each other of lying in their only televised debate. coming up in sports, in a half- hour, all the latest from the eaugue. premier li as and rail madrid rejoices as they are led to the spanish league title. -- real madrid. times, thee over nhl playoffs. that's coming up and

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, the occasion when margaret thatcher famously him.ere we are. the article is called, heat who got slapped lesson maggie taught me by christopher hitchens. i made up my mind about people in the first times i can't than i very rarely change it. that's a quote. so "the new york times" quoted margaret thatcher and say on the day of her resignation. i would be happy to think that the statement was truthful sense within minutes of first being introduced to me, thatcher lashed me across the bad eggs with a road of parliamentary order paper. it happened in the course of an exchange of views about rhodesia in the late fall of 1977, when she was still leader of the opposition and was pandering to the races in her party and elect, when she was still leader of the opposition and was pandering to the racist than her party and elect, when she was still leader of the opposition and was pandering to the racist than her party and elect we were meeting in still leader of the opposition and was pandering to the racist than her party and elect we were me

. >> i think a lot of this is under margaret thatcher because i think that newspapers were given a sense of power, the numbers that received the knight hoods and the sense that they were almost part of her team. i think it changed under john major and i think when we were in power, i think we maybe did give the media too much of a sense of their own place within the political fervor and we should have changed it more. >> when you're talking about conferment of power, one of the virtues identified is the freedom of press. and the bad reasons, and you lift three of those, you refer to the patronage system. now the evidence on that you set out. then the second and the third allowed, which is the reason why the politicians have let the the press have power, is that right? >> yup. >> and the efforts made to win media support, which is again another aspect of the same phenomenon, isn't it? >> yeah. i think we might disagree on the word power because, as i said, i think ultimately the politician does have the power but i think all three there are factors within this that have led to a chang tha

she was very much the labor equivalent of margaret thatcher. she had very strong opinions about people. she kept a list in her head of journalists she liked and was willing to talk to and journalists she detested. i remember there was one called norah belloff on the observers. she used so pit about her. the lobby was very -- the press lobby was very tight 60 journalists worked sort of free masonry. it was even more incestuous than it is today. i'm not saying how i would have operated in this sam. except i think the wise politician would keep a bit of distance. >> in paragraph 34, mr. straw, will you look at the sun and it's particularly role in the fortunes of the labor party. i ask you to elaborate on what you mean halfway down where you say mr. murdoch has played a power game with political leaders. >> yes. the political leanings of most newspapers in brat tan are predictable. so the paragraph is going to support the conservative party, the daily mirror is going to be supporting. from recollection i think there's only two newspapers that are

>> well, i think a lot of this started under margaret thatcher. i think that newspapers were given a sense of power. the numbers that we see, the peerages and the knighthoods and the sense they were almost part of her team. i think it changed under john major. i think when we were in power, i think that we -- i think we maybe did give the media too much of a sense of their own place within the political firm at. when we should have challenged it more. >> talking about the conferment of power, one of the reasons why the newspapers have such power is the good reason you've identified, namely free press, i understand that. but the bad reasons, and you list three of those at the end of paragraph 26, you refer to the patronage system. the evidence on that you set out. but then the second and the third aspects. the privileged access governments of both colored allowed, the point lord leveson made, the reasons politicians allowed press to have power. is that right? >> yes. >> the efforts made to win media support. which is again another aspect of the sam

didn't know, she was very much the labor equivalent of margaret thatcher. she had very strong opinions about people. she kept a list in her head of journalists she liked and was willing to talk to and journalists she detested. i remember there was one called nora bellof on the observer. she used to spit about her quite literally. and the lobby, of course, in those days was very -- the press lobby with a capital l was very tight, 60 journalists, sort of free masonry. so they -- it was even more incestuo incestuous. i'm not saying how i would have operated in that system, except i think it's a wise politician that keeps a bit of distance. >> back on 34, mr. straw, you look at the sun and the it's importance to the labor party. we ask you to elaborate on what you mean halfway down where you see pl muir day has played a power game with political leaders. >> yes. the political leanings of most newspapers in britain are predictable. so the daily telegraph is going to be supporting the conservative party at the daily mirror they're supporting the labor party. from

the scottish historian who was an adviser to margaret thatcher. this big booster of the british empire and had to replicate what the british empire did and so forth but he has written in many articles describing the decision to enter the first world war on the part of britain was the worst thing britain ever did. moreover it was directly responsible for the loss of the british empire. he makes the case as do many people in britain, britain was not attacked at the beginning of the war. the germans expected and rather counted on their staying out of the war and

margaret thatcher counseled caution. of course, gorbachev didn't want it. so what the president decided was to run the table. we'll get back to that in a moment. that's what philly means about a revolutionary set of objectives. to seek a reunified germany in nato was to run the international table. with regard to lithuania, president bush was ready to take the hit for what was called a second munich, to give gorbachev the breathing room to manage his lithuanian crisis, so the big prize of getting a united germany remained viable and in play. during the march 1990 crisis which has been forgotten, because we forget about things that don't blow up, bush decided he would manage revolution in the baltics differently from revolution in eastern europe. washington muted criticism after the soviets took control of some buildings in 1990 and things got worse when gorbachev placed a partial energy embargo on lithuania in late april 1990. george famously and unfairly wrote bushism is reaganism minus the passion for freedom. even former president nixon who should have k

it turned out the woman sitting next to him was a young, british parliamentarian named margaret thatcher who played a role in the conservative tradition. years later when president reagan asked me to become the special presidential envoy for the law of the sea he sent me to japan and germany and the netherlands and england and france to meet with the leadership to try to talk them out of supporting what was called the sea bed mining section of the law, the sea treaty, and one of the stops was in london, and i met on 10 downing street with mrs. thatcher. and i started explaining to her exactly what this provision of the treaty would do. and i said basically what it does is it creates an authority, quote/unquote, kind of an orwellian term, and that authority would be in charge of the riches under the sea. and president reagan wants me to persuade you if you will to be supportive of his position that he is not going to sign that treaty because he doesn't think it's a good thing for country or the world. and she looked at me and she said, mr. ambassador, that sounds to me like the internatio

so quoted late -- margaret thatcher on the day resignation.ld be happy to think that within minutes of being introduced she last meet across the box with their rolled up parliamentary order paper. in the course of exchange of a bit -- exchange views nashua still leader of the opposition and pandering to the racist and her party influenced by the fact we were meeting in the rose period room i made the mistake of bowling as to acknowledge her she took swift advantage by saying go lower. like the british electorate to now shaking itself more than a decade later, i look back upon that spanking to decoded significance. thank you. [laughter] [applause] >> i and then the shorts literary editor of the atlantic. i will read from one of christopher's last pieces of the magazine a review of letters between develop and monica jones that even the most trying will lead could have even the most impossible man. [laughter] giving or again the a weir moment of pleasure by saying as he reported to monica i persuade words to the poetry and not to bully them the c

. >> margaret thatcher, portrayed by meryl streep on a movie called "iron lead." >> but with all dueny men have underestimated me before. >> oh, mrs. thatcher also known by another name conferred on her in 1992. what is it? all right. the iron lead is also what other moniker? the answer is d, baroness, very good. we have a tie with two questions to go.

british prime ministers from winston churchill and margaret thatcher -- >> thank the united states. >porter: to tony blair. over the past 70 years, high profile meetings were largely held away from public view. >> there's no substitute for face to face meetings, getting to know people, and even making assessments of them, whether this is somebody you can trust, seeing what their strengths and weaknesses are. >> reporter: every president since roosevelt has made use of the camp, after it was converted from a federal employee camp in the second world war. >> the secret service was concerned about president roosevelt being on his yacht and they were looking for a land base, and early after the president moved in, he changed the name. >> reporter: president eisenhower renamed it camp david after his father and grandson. after his term, president john k. kennedy conferred with eisenhower during the cuban missile crisis. in 1978, president jimmy carter brokered a peace agreement between egypt and israel. the kennedys were frequent visitors and ronald reagan spent more time there than any ot

. >> margaret thatcher, portrayed by meryl streep on a movie called "iron lead." >> but with all dueave underestimated me before. >> oh, mrs. thatcher also known by another name conferred on her in 1992. what is it? all right. the iron lead is also what other moniker? the answer is d, baroness, very good. we have a tie with two questions to go. doocy, could you forego the ad lib? is that possible this evening? >> sorry. thought it was a talk show. >> not for you. >> they don't pay me enough. >> and 90-year-old nancy reagan, fairly robust for her age, still participatinin events at her husband's presidential library. she gave people concern a few months ago. she almost fell down and was saved by who? who saved nancy reagan a few months ago from hitting the ground? the answer is, roll the tape. >> okay. you should have gotten that one. >> all right, rubio. that was very disturbing. >> you still could tie him. question no. 5, hillary clinton was named, one, the most admired woman in america. it was the 16th time she hit number one. what other woman came in a lot, topping the list many t

>> in the words of margaret thatcher, problem were socialism you run out of other people's money.r. >> john: look at this graph how many workers there are per social security recipient. it made great sense in 1945 and even 1950 when there were 40 or 16 workers for retiree. now it's gone down to two and a half. >> part of that shows fundamentally as an idea, you are saying it's flawed based on the worker per recipient ratio zbleechbh what is the difference? >> you don't see a social security as an idea you are saying we need to repair how it functions. >> how do you restore american prosperity? do you keep going on with the myths and inflate your way out of a problem like social security or do you face them and say we lied to you, the state lied to you, it was unsound. it was a ponzi scheme. let's deal with this. >> john: we shouldn't have the social security programs because it changes attitudes about saving for yourself? >> that is the best point. it does change the fundamental character of the people that somebody else will take care of the retirement benefits, healthcare benefi

>> in the words of margaret thatcher, problem were socialism you run out of other people's money.r. >> john: look at this graph how many workers there are per social security recipient. it made great sense in 1945 and even 1950 when there were 40 or 16 workers for retiree. now it's gone down to two and a half. >> part of that shows fundamentally as an idea, you are saying it's flawed based on the worker per recipient ratio zbleechbh what is the difference? >> you don't see a social security as an idea you are saying we need to repair how it functions. >> how do you restore american prosperity? do you keep going on with the myths and inflate your way out of a problem like social security or do you face them and say we lied to you, the state lied to you, it was unsound. it was a ponzi scheme. let's deal with this. >> john: we shouldn't have the social security programs because it changes attitudes about saving for yourself? >> that is the best point. it does change the fundamental character of the people that somebody else will take care of the retirement benefits, healthcare benefi