mrs. thatcher was mrs. thatcher. her name to thatcherism along with ronald reagan, the biggest conservative figure in the late 20th century. not just that, mrs. thatcher was sort of a combination of ronald reagan, ayn rand and dr. strangelove. wrapped into one. she was sort of the ultimate conservative pin-up. and as you say in your introduction, she never went away if that. i think that she was always going to be a big deal when she died. and to the extent that she changed things, she deserves that. the second thing is there's a conservative government running britain at the moment. or a conservative liberal coalition and they're in a lot of trouble. so i think they're sort of trying to seize upon the moment now. to sort of unify the country and put, seize upon her legacy, to try and justify what they're doing at the moment. you know she's going to have what is effectively a state funeral. although it's not being called that. it's being called a ceremonial funeral. and you know, the government tried to exploit the o

mrs. thatcher today. particularly from conservatives.er record domestically is complicated and her leadership was deeply divisive, wasn't it? >> complicated is the nice way to put it, martin. she was a radicalizing fig wrur for people on the left. she was obviously lionized by people on the right. and there was nothing in between at all. you know, she did break through the glass ceiling. she was a pioneer as a woman. she also brought a sensible of what the middle class wanted in britain which was to get on. for people to buy their own public housing, flats as they call them over there as you know. yet on the other side, she destroyed communities, willingly destroyed entire industries. yes, she was, as president obama said, a champion of freedom, but a champion of freedom for maybe people in argentina, a champion of freedom if you're behind the iron curtain. but not a champion of freedom, as you pointed out, throughout the day, if you are black and inside africa, where she was very happy to cozy up to the apartheid era leaders. complicate

mrs. thatcher or a personal memory. anyone of us could have any service at that point. the cheers from the crowd again and again, they cheered, they broke into applause as if they want to say after contention and debate, we are here to cheer you on your last journey. >> they are her friends and admirers here. anyway, thank you both very much for coming in watching. it was the leader of the opposition, ed miliband speaking, describing lady thatcher as a towering figure. and perhaps that one word that best explain the ceremonial funeral we've seen today, politicians of many parties, despite their political differences have come here to honor what they consider to be in the public sense is a towering political figure. one that inspires mixed emotions, but it was britain's first woman prime minister, dominated the political scene. and was admired for that from around the world. president obama pay tribute to the way that she made them in his words, had shown britain out to be -- is the politician, the policies that are being commemorated here very much so. the policies, the

if you go back to the idea of the individual i think we started this debate with what was mrs thatcher's what was baroness thatcher as legacy i think the message that she had at the time was look i'm a grocer's daughter from grantham if i can do it anybody can but without providing the ability for anybody else to do it once up there sort of pulled up the ladder and stayed where she was and what we have now is an inability for people who might be grocers daughters from ordinary villages around the country or towns who simply cannot get on the latter and whether that's her legacy all just her identity or what is identified with her that all for one and one for oneself rather than all for one one for all we will be debating for a very long time clifford. yes we need we need heroes among us to lead us into the workplace or any other field of endeavor but we also needed to be possible for people of ordinary abilities to be successful and to a conservative a vibrant economy has to be the number one priority of government dealing with the immediate c of a recession is one thing pump priming you

if you go back to the idea of the individual i think we started this debate with what was mrs thatcher's what was baroness thatcher as legacy i think the message that she had at the time was look i'm a grocer's daughter from grantham if i can do it anybody can but without providing the ability for anybody else to do it once up there sort of pulled up the ladder and stayed where she was and that we have now is an inability for people who might be grocers daughters from ordinary villages around the country or towns who simply cannot get on the latter and whether that's her legacy all just her identity or what is identified with her that all for one and one for oneself rather than all for one one for all we will be debating for a very long time clifford. yes we need we need heroes among us to lead us into the workplace or any other field of endeavor but we also needed to be possible for people of ordinary abilities to be successful and to a conservative a vibrant economy has to be the number one priority of government dealing with the immediate c of a recession is one thing pump priming you

mr. thatcher died today at the age of 87 from a stroke. during her tenure as prime minster, she restructured the british economy. she led britain to victory and she's given credit for helping the u.s. and the soviet union through the end of the cold war. here's part of what she said from the british house of commons when she resigned in 1990. >> do not agree that the age of civil is gone. not look back with pride and satisfaction of all of those years as a well statesman. longthink mr. speaker, as as my honorable friend is a member of this house. yes, in response to his question, do i look backward with some pride and satisfaction of achievement of our country in the last 11.5 years. >> margaret thatcher talking about resigning as prime minster in 1990. her passing today brought tribute to many people in politics and around the world. today is a truly sad day for our country. we lost a great prime minster a great leader a great britain. as ours for woman prime minster, margaret thatcher succeeded against all the odds. she didn't just lead

mrs. thatcher. she conveyed this aura of knowing what needed to be done and being willing to do it no matter what the political cost. >> it's clear vice president cheney holds mrs. thatcher in very high regard, but he describes her almost as a male version of himself, doesn't he? >> yes. i think he's stopped thinking of thatcher and was thinking of dick cheney. you know, basically as soon as he started that sentence. you know, one of the other things -- one of the things that thatcher said about her own legacy when she was asked about it, she said, you know, one of the greatest things that i've left behind was tony blair. you know, you can never imagine a republican in the united states saying something like that. you know, and i think -- i think what she meant by that is, you know, she was able to break kind of the far left of the labor party and allow this neoliberal labor party to emerge. you'd never see dick cheney say the greatest legacy of the bush administration is barack obama. and barack ob

mrs. thatcher and will not give to president obama. >> we have to leave it there. marget thatcher is coming up on the next block. america is celebrating equal pay days for women this week. but did margaret thatcher show us why merit pay would put more money in women's pockets? we'll be back at 1:00 p.m. eastern only on fox. >> elizabeth: welcome back. lawmakers pushing for equal pay for women. it is happening as the world said goodbye to a powerful woman who championed merit play. margaret thatcher talked about the merit pay. explain sabrain? >> merit pay is the way to go. women's groups are pushing for equal pay . the idea that women only make 77 cents of a dollar that a man makes. if you look at time out of the workplace and college major the gap phrinks considerably. we need to ask ourselves if legislation is the answer to close it entirely. >> is that fairness for women given what sabrina is saying. >> she is correct that women are paid 77 cents for every dollar that a man is paid. i love the idea of merit paid. who doesn't? if is the way to be. to buy into this

has to be equal and men's liberation and women's liberation go hand in hand and i congratulate mr thatcher for allowing his wife to be a great leader and serve the human race is that i'm going to allow you to be shown here i wouldn't change the way i have to accept that she was someone with the qualities that was capable of being a great lady but as i started this debate if you are a great leader and she did have that toughness and that ability to debate then you have to laid way responsibility you have to do the right thing and that's the right thing for all the people that you all a day and the problem is that there wasn't a focus on i point out today and i certainly would not sad that a husband allowed a wife to go off and do what you want to do in parliament day i'll let you do so for most of us only some of which i'm not going to have they would fight with folks like this that he's running around wrong but ok i have to jump in here since i was running out of time a fascinating discussion many thanks to my guests in washington and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us her

mrs. thatcher's hair was rock solid. to marlon fitzwater and bush's press secretary and margaret thatcher's press secretary and i said what does she use on her hair? he said, and paused and said, thompson's water seal. martha: i have to get some of that. so far we have two pieces of advice. always bring two dresses or suits everywhere you could. told kt macfarland to do as a woman in the world and thompson water seal on the hair. >> i think he was getting but i never knew for sure. martha: you know, brit, i'm thinking what is going on now in the white house and you think about health care and the huge battle that's underway to try to implement that large, you know, sort of social system of health care in this country and you think about the budget which we'll get on wednesday and, we have a very different philosophy in this country right now, than we did when president shared his views with margaret thatcher. >> that's true, martha. the remember this the one thing margaret thatcher every never did, privatized a lot of bri

mrs. thatcher influencing so many great artists to write protest songs against mrs. thatcher.believe that her policies were good for people is like heidi monday tag's body. it might feel good but it isn't actually real. and she was forced out of power by her own party after riots stewingsinstituting a poll tax. we

mrs. thatcher and will not give to president obama. >> we have to leave it there. marget thatcher is coming up on the next block. america is celebrating equal pay days for women this week. but did margaret thatcher show us why merit pay would put we went out and asked people a simple question: how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed: the official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years. ♪ to enjoy a♪l of these years. (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. we'll be back at 1:00 p.m. eastern only on fox. >> elizabeth: welcome back. lawmakers pushing for equal pay for women. it is happening as the world said goodbye to a powerful woman who championed merit play. margaret thatcher talked about the merit pay

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mr. thatcher about her book "the downing street years." her political career in the conservative party. >> margaret thatcher can you tell us how you wrote this book? >> yes. i had to decide first how i wanted to do it.had i already thought that the first thing i must do is to tell a story of the years when i was i downing street. there wereth exciting years. we changed the entire economy.aa we had the libyan raid, we had the end of the cold war and we had the gulf.d how should i do it. so i thought instead of tellingn it in enormous detail, someas people do almost everyday, idi will take the main themes and follow them through and try to put them in a time frame in theo election which i thought. first thing i had to do wast to get the whole structure ofe the chapters right. then i sat down and wrote as much as i can remember about each without in fact, referringn to documents, making a note of what i needed to look out. masses and masses of documents that mustes be consulted. every meeting i had was documented and what was said and what wa

mrs. thatcher? did she connect with the british pluck in the same way? >> -- public in the same way? >> that's a very good question, that's very astute. because you know in a way what the answer is. she's 82. a grand old lady. she is well regarded by many people in the business, but she's not well liked. and it is the profound difference, really, between the two of them. because they both shared so much in common. belief, ideology, practice, eight years shared. but ronnie reagan was just a different character. that's why i think the republicans are barking up the wrong tree if they're trying to look for another ronald reagan. he just was a special person who comes along once every now and then. and his, it came through all sorts of things. it wasn't even hollywood which did this to him. he was already a charmer when he was a young man. and he also found that he had a rappaport both at -- rapport. he just found it natural. he was a very funny, optimistic, likable personality who told endless anecdotes and jokes to lubricate the wheels of government and the compromises necessary in pol

mrs. thatcher was always capable of providing. >> all that encouragement. i have been shut listening to the coverage today. it has been more mixed in britain. people have talked about her divisiveness. overwhelmingly positive here in america. >> it certainly has been positive here. we all have the fondest memories. the decision she had to make in the united kingdom, and the challenges she had to face would leave some residual feelings that are not necessarily favorable. we did not have to deal with those issues here in the united states. our reaction to her is favorable. she was part of a special relationship. andand president reagan president bush had a unique relationship with each other, especially with president reagan. did they have a common view of communism. the soviet union needs to change. let's be strong. let's demonstrate our strength to some action such as deployment of the missiles in 1984. i was there. i watched it happen. it brought all of those out. the game is up. powerful way she made an impact on the world's situation. she had people who

mrs. thatcher who, by the way, had to defy opinion. i've been trying to say the majority of opinion in their own cabinet to make the changes that she did and the britain that i live in today is just unrecognizable and i think if people took a hard look back over those 35 or more years they will agree that nobody would want to return to that chaos. she put the country back on a trajectory, an upward trajectory. the britain i grew up in in the wake of the second world war was a country which was in precipitous decline which had entirely lost its national self-confidence and mrs. thatcher put that right. >> ifill: ran, that i'm curious was she ever wrong? the right or the wrong history on things like south africa. >> well, i think some south africans would certainly say she was on the wrong side. you know, again, she was a very polarizing figure as john said, her legacy of the benchmark at that time. one of the things that i think is most fascinating right now is her view on europe. she was very forward minded in terms of saying that euro

mrs thatcher's policies were certainly radical but we shouldn't forget that her term in office began with a recession in one nine hundred seventy nine one thousand nine hundred ninety one and eighty one and ended with the recession in one nine hundred ninety nine hundred ninety one so we hear a lot of talk about how the u.k. economy was transformed but it was transformed at a very high cost and a very high price in terms of cyclicality there was a great deal of lost output but a very great deal of tough decisions to be made during that transformation phase we tend to focus when we're looking back at times like this on the achievements and perhaps sometimes it's easy to overlook because i mean both human in economic terms of those achievements there were two recessions as well as two economic booms and when it comes to economic legacy what is it that we can all of regardless of our country learned from margaret thatcher anything i think we can learn about the power of the market in the way that it can empower individuals but i think one of the criticisms that i think is is perhaps qui

if you go back to the idea of the individual i think we started this debate with what was mrs thatcher's what was baroness thatcher as legacy i think the message that she had at the time was look i'm a grocer's daughter from grantham if i can do it anybody can but without providing the ability for anybody else to do it once up there sort of pulled up the ladder and stayed where she was and that we have now is an inability for people who might be grocers daughters from ordinary villages around the country or towns who simply cannot get on the latter and whether that's her legacy all just her identity or what is identified with her that all for one and one for oneself rather than all for one one for all we will be debating for a very long time clifford. yes we need we need heroes among us to lead us into the workplace or any other field of endeavor but we also needed to be possible for people of ordinary abilities to be successful and to a conservative a vibrant economy has to be the number one priority of government dealing with the immediate c of a recession is one thing pump priming you

and she came to bosco for his funeral and he was replaced of course by mr mikhail gorbachev and mrs thatcher is famous for having said you couldn't do business with mr gorbachev so when she came for the food or of mr turton and co she had a one on one meeting with mr gore were drawn and you know i remember this very vividly when she saw him her face lit up and her eyes sparkled you know i had a feeling and i still have that she was in rapture right mr gorbachev and lady was something that came from the from the russian side as well something that she loved to coin let's just listen in to margaret thatcher a second when she was using that. room for less iconic phrases it is now the russian said that i listen i am lady. thank you every night. with three britain needs an iron lady but she took it as praise i'm not sure initially parkin one hundred seventy six the term our lady was actually meant as praise was it no of course not that was a huge blunder. which played right into the hands of the aryan lady because by using that phrase they actually wanted somehow to belittle but she took it not o

in keeping with the unusual, unique character of margaret thatcher herself. >> thank you, mr. speaker. may i begin, on behalf of my right honorable friend, pushing our deepest sympathies to the family of baroness thatcher to her children and grandchildren. i want to thank you, mr. speaker, for calling parliament. it is the right thing to do in this chamber that she dominated for so long. we, the representatives of the people of the united kingdom should meet here to pay to get and also to reflect on her long period in office. ,he was many things, a pioneer first female leader of a major political party in the united kingdom. the first female prime minister. she did break that last ceiling. she also broke through the social barriers, standing in the way of anyone at that time and generation from becoming the leader of a major political party. she was a woman of personal and political courage, a politician of formidable ability, a states woman who transformed not only the united kingdom, but also paid an enormous role in fundamentally changing the world order. there are many who

mrs. thatcher who became a symbolic figure, even an -ism. remains of the real hereret hilda thatcher are at her funeral service. in here, she is one of us, subject to the common destiny of all human beings. there is an important place for debating policies and legacies, for assessing the impact of political decisions on the everyday lives of individuals and communities. parliament held a frank debate last week. is neither the time nor the place. this, at lady thatcher's personal request, is a funeral not a memorial service with the customer eulogies. one should not aspire to the judgments which are proper to the politician. foread, this is a place ordinary human compassion of the kinds that is reconciling. it is also the place where the simple truths which transcend political debate and above all, .t is the place for hope it must be very difficult for ande members of her family those closely associated with the wife,ognize mother, and grandmother in the mythological figure. and their families and also to those who cared for lady thatcher with

mrs. thatcher. they wrote speeches with mrs. thatcher. she was involved at every stage. authorship, i'd like to. stuart: i think you should. over here, we've got this gentleman, martin bashir works for a very liberal network, he's calling mrs. thatcher a racist and more to the point, he says that she was not that effective. now, i totally disagree with that. how on earth could the man say she was not that effective? go. >> well, i think it's absurd and let me say, by the way, that obviously, she wasn't a racist. in fact, one of the least prejudiced people i've ever met in my life and she was well-known for having a cabinet full of what you might call nontraditional tories. and you may remember miller said my cabinet is full of atonas, and hers was full of as stonions. and you remember the winter of discontent? ten years later britain was the fourth largest economy in the world. it's absurd to say that. it's an enormous success. stuart: i believe she rescued my home country. i live in america, and did for 40 years and my home country is great britain and i think she rescu

mr gorbachev who at that point was a second or third ranking person in the party hierarchy and mrs thatcher is famous for having said you can do business with mr gorbachev so when she came for the food or of mr turton and co she had a one on one meeting with mr gold with her all and you know i remember this very vividly as if it had happened just yesterday when she saw him in the office in the kremlin her face lit up and our eyes sparkled you know i had a feeling and i still have that she was in rapture right mr gorbachev and lady was something that came from the from the russian side as well something that she loved to coin let's just listen in to margaret thatcher a second when she was using that. infamous iconic phrase as it is now the russians said that i was an iron lady. they were knights. of the of. britain needs an iron lady but she took it as praise i'm not sure initially park in one nine hundred seventy six the turmoil lady was actually meant as praise was it of course not. that was a huge blunder. which played right into the hands of the iron lady because they wanted by using tha

mrs. thatcher and president reagan. they complemented each other as far as world leaders better than anyone since roosevelt and churchill. but my specific question is after two of the major overseas involving president reagan, the iran-contra issue and then the funding of the mujahedin in afghanistan when the soviet union was there, which at that time included osama bin laden. after president reagan was out of office, i was wondering did lady thatcher ever have any public comments about those two particular blemishes on her good friend's president reagan's record? i will get off the line for your answer. guest: i will have to take a pass on a detail. i do not want to make up an answer. i do not know if she made any comments or in generally comments. in general, she cannot not have been more unwavering in her support of president reagan. it was not just the foreign- policy support. famously, they both worked to speak harsh truths about the unsustainability of the soviet union, something that coincided with the implosion

mrs. thatcher did almost nothing to actively promote the rights of women.n adviser "the feminists hate me, and i don't blame them, for i hate feminism. it is poison." but women's rights have become one of mrs. clinton's most important concerns. in fact, one of her first speeches following retirement from the state department was delivered to the women in the world summit. >> let's keep telling the world over and over again that, yes, women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights. once and for all. >> once and for all. and for those who lionize mrs. thatcher, she had many admirable qualities. she was, as she said, a conviction politician. the so-called iron lady. she did more than survive in a man's world. she beat them at their own game. but doing better than men is something that women have been doing for a very long time. giving women proper credit and opportunity, that remains the greatest challenge. and that's something that hillary clinton already has over margaret thatcher. thanks so much for watching. chris matthews and "hardbal

mrs. thatcher was very early on when harry and i went to dinner. i was in my 20s at that time with the great sort of tory journalist woodrow wyatt--who wore embroidered slippers with his initials on, and grand dukes, everybody was puffing cigar. a certain point in the dinner woodrow wyatt said it is now time for the women, for the ladies to leave the table because at that time women left the table. and the men stayed behind. and we all scuttled off, duchesses and all the ladies scuttled off. and behind me i saw that mrs. thatcher was still sitting at that table. and she didn't move. she stayed with the men. and we all went upstairs to the powder room. i rememberhinking wow, you knowi wa so kind of irritated with her that she didn't come with us. when i look back, i realized that she took a stand. she didn't expect us to. i mean as a man was saying she wasn't a feminist at all. she wasn't doing as a kind of look what i am doing, it simply wouldn't have occurred to her to leave the table. >> rose: her idea was that women were -- >> she feld the-- hel

mrs. thatcher. mrs. reagan, thank you for taking the time to be with us.n you heard the news about mrs. thatcher's passing, what went through your mind? >> oh, gosh. what went through my mind. well, it wasn't unexpected, because she hadn't been well for a long time, but nevertheless, when the day finally comes, it's hard to accept it. she was a wonderful, wonderful woman. strong, wonderful. >> mrs. reagan, we're joined by someone you know very well, former secretary of state james baker. mr. secretary, you served as chief of staff to president reagan, also later as secretary of state to president bush senior. what kind of an ally was prime minister thatcher to the white house? >> well, she was the best possible ally, anderson. of course, as you've pointed out, she and president reagan had a seamless relationship, but she also had an extraordinarily good relationship with president george h.w. bush but only for 18 months. of course, with president reagan, it was for eight years. and she had that relationship with him across geopolitical, geostrategic lines

thatcher. her tenure overlapped eight years and mr. wapshott offers the leaders are advocates of each other. margaret thatcher died on april 8, 2013. this is a little over an hour. >> few would've believed the itinerant shoe salesman that would seek to revitalize the dispirited nation ultimately be seen as changing the world. likewise, few would have imagined that their neighborhood grocer's daughter was destined to change the course of her country and influence the direction of an international community. how fortunate for the cause of freedom that these two individuals under president ronald reagan and baroness thatcher came to positions of leadership from both of their nations needed them most. as iraq are today will discuss, there is this political marriage based upon ideology and a true meeting of the mind. ronald reagan -- "ronald reagan and margaret thatcher: a political marriage," nicholas wapshott reveals even more clearly the rare relationship between these two world leaders. mr. wapshott is an editor at the new york sun and the former new york are achieved for the times of london.

mrs. thatcher. was it as close as it appeared on the outside? >> that was my impression. i was never in a meeting with the to of them. i can remember later, when she came -- i was still vice-president -- she came to receive an award for the heritage society approximate they asked me to present it at that time. but she was then obviously sometime away from her time in politics and then had written a book and so forth. but she was a rock star. she was somebody that everybody had enormous respect and admiration for. a lot of that was based on the way president reagan treated her. she was always welcome, obviously, in those years. the two of them, partly because of their philosophy about government's role in society, was very similar. they clearly hit it off. >> it's funny, i listen to the british reports reports and rany someone will say, we had a woman leader before the united states. the british are very proud of that. >> they should be. she was the longest serving prime minister in the 20th century. >> dealing with gorbachev, she said he was a man that she could do busine

mrs. thatcher was the conservative party's education minister.years after that its leader acutely aware of the glass ceiling she was cracking. >> i stand before you tonight in my red chief upon chief upon evening gown. >> by may of 1979 after the u.k.'s sagging economy and spirits gave rise to warcht discontent thatcher was elected first and only female prime minister. >> where there is discourse, may we bring harmony. where there is error may we bring truth. where there is doubt may we bring faith. where there is is despair may we bring hope. >> dubbed the iron lady by the soviets. thatcher dispatched her majesty's warships to reclaim the falkland iltsdz. she miguel gorbachev someone she could do business and forged relationship with ronald reagan. faced down the coal miner's your union. >> what we have got is an attempt to substitute the rule of the mob for the rule of law there. be. [shouting] >> whose members on strike for a year returned to work be a sent any concessions. thatcher's imposition of a so-called poll tax triggered severe rioting

mrs. thatcher who became a symbolic figure, even an ism. t today, the remains of margaret hilda thatcher are here at her funeral service. line year, she is one of us. >> one of us, a thatcher phrase for those she's is being on her side. all of muzzles pointed this was enough to move george osborn. he sat, eyes blinking, a tiered clearly on his cheek. later he treated, "it was an overwhelming day. -- de." it -- an overwhelming de." it was quite a sendoff. it was the funeral she wanted, the one she discussed not with just david cameron's government, but with tony blair's and gordon brown's 2. and after all this up -- a celebration, it ended as predicted, with the cheers of margaret thatcher's supporters. news, st. paul's cathedral. >> saying goodbye to margaret thatcher. you are watching abc world news america. still to come, ancient human ancestors that stood just 3 feet tall. how did the so-called hobby people of indonesia becomes so little? scientists have found the answer. founder of ae company which supplied tens of thousands of women wit

as winston churchill once put it, some politicians make the weather in margaret thatcher was undoubtedly one of them. mrspeaker, in the house of commons are rightly porous statues. my church gave us the beginnings of the welfare state. winston churchill who gave us the korean war, thurmond he gave us nhs and margaret thatcher who rescued our country from postwar decline. they say, three-hour,, demand when in 1979 came the hour and came the lady. she made the political weather. she made history and let this be her epitaph as she made our country great again. i commend this motion to the house. [shouting] >> order. the question is this house has considered the matter a tribute to right honorable baroness thatcher stephen algae. mr. edward miliband. >> mr. speaker, to join the prime minister commemorated to extort or that the contribution of margaret thatcher and not to him in any deepest condolences to her children, carol and mark, the whole family and many, many close friends. today's opportunity to reflect on margaret thatcher's achievement, politics and political latency. as the payments issues that, t

mrs. thatcher is the first major allied leader to visit the new president. earlier this afternoon, jim leer and i discussed some of these issues with mrs. thatcher at blair house. >> a short while ago it was announced that you are delaying your departure from washington in the morning to have a special unscheduled second session with president reagan. has something urgent arisen, something special or what? >> no. i i think it's a lovely idea. my husband and me to go around to the white house to say good-bye and to say how very much we've enjoyed the trip. >> we were afraid that maybe something had come up on el salvador or something like that. that's not the case. >> i don't think we would be so ham-handed to do that way if it had. >> in your conversations with the president, secretary hagan others, with a full range of tions that could be employed to stop this outside interference, were they gone over with you? >> no. actually the proportion of questions i've had on el salvador from interviewers far exceeds the proportion of time we spent on discussing this

mrs. thatcher was 87 years old and had been in poor health for a number of years, richard. nonetheless, this is a chance now to reflect on her legacy. you know, she could be and is was in many ways a device itch figure, considering what she was taking on coming in following the wrenching inflation of the 1970s. she took on the country's labor unions, privatized industries. but former prime minister gordon brown saying this morning that even though who disagreed with her understood the strength of her convictions. and the current prime minister, david cameron, cutting short a trip to europe to come back here reflected this morning on the pivotal role that mrs. thatcher played in this country's history. >> as our first woman prime minister, margaret thatcher succeeded against all the odds. and the real thing about margaret thatcher is that she she didn't just lead our country, she saved our country. and i believe she'll go down into the greatest british peace time prime minister. >> reaction is beginning to pour in from around the world. and you know, one of the big parts of