mrs. thatcher gave on courage. she gave it, interestingly enough, at a heritage foundation vermont. the occasion was the presentation of the clare booth institute awards to ronald reagan. all these things come together. we have a lady of courage today speaking to women and men of courage and stand of principle and give gifts that honor our two favorite heros, margaret thatcher and ronald reagan. >> thank you, becky. >> thank you, michelle. thank you, kate. it's a privilege to work together over the last number of years to actually have this network monthly event bringing together outstanding women leaders and future leaders, mostly women, but the occasional man who is welcome too. now we'd like to 1k you to join us for lunch autoin the lobby, and thanks for the interns who had the microphone today. >> the book signings. >> oh, yeah, kate has books and happy to sign. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> here with craig smith, author of "counting the days: pows and strag leers of world war ii in the pacific." look at six different p.o.w.s in the pacific theater. tell us about that. >> thee

know about the falklands issue i think obviously we thinking back to thirty odd years ago when mrs thatcher was in a similar position she was a very unpopular leader her opinion poll ratings is very low and it seemed odds on that she would lose the next election and she was almost a hated figure and what happened with the argentine easy bake in the falklands was the stature sent the task force out and the rest as they say is history she became very popular she became a national hero and i think cameron is very much hope. so the bring back the back and raise of one hundred eighty two and if people's attention here from the very popular thing. cameron is being provoked by argentina and perhaps many would say that the president of argentina is exactly using those excuses you decided for the u.k. for her to distract attention from argentina's economy which is in dire straits well that could well be the case bill but you know i think the key point here is that whatever one thinks of the rights of the wrongs of the argentine claim to the islands or the british plate i think that from a british pe

margaret thatcher understood this in 1989 she gave a speech standing with good-bye chove and said you and i mr. secretary general know that conventional weapons have never deterred war in europe. but nuclear weapons have done so for 40 years. she said in 1989 make that 70 years. north korea when it went nuclear we were told all of asia would go nuclear. you could understood why south korea is still in the state of active arms it's at war with north korea and yet that hasn't happened. south korea hasn't gone nuclear, japan hasn't gone nuclear. the lesson of north korea has been if you're a third rate dysfunctional country that manages to acquire a couple of crude nuclear devices you remain a third world dysfunctional country with a couple of crude nuclear devices. power does not flow from the barrel. it flows from your innovation and technological power. and so we come to israel. and we come to the challenge that iran places there. and what i would argue is that the iranians are cool, calculating, shrewd far more so in their rhetoric and actions certainly in their actions than any of the regime