>> 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

thatcher. you'll notice mrs. thatcher is pointing her finger, and i think what she's saying is who is that woman with all the cameras around her neck and why is she in my living room? i had barged my way through, ast i was learning to do, thinking a that i was going to end up in a holding room somewhere when ias ended up in mrs. thatcher's living room. but then mrs. thatcher came to our territory here at camp david, looking out through their cabin with millie on the side there joining in. and the first day of desert storm was announced, this is in the residence which you would call i guess the family room of the white house. i'm watching the president announce the beginning of the rm operation with her daughter doro and press secretary anna perez, and the bushes had invited the reverend billy graham to join them. in the camis. this was in the saudi desert ons thanksgiving day before the start of operation desert storm. i think mrs. bush was on her thi fifth thanksgiving dinner at that time. and then once the camp

baroness thatcher did not know what was on the agenda. he puts likely on the door and it sprung open. the initial talk was all about the new u.s. administration and that mr. murdoch described as the new right. mr. murdoch stressed that the problem lay with the prince unions, by implication of the power needed to be reduced. he and baroness thatcher were altogether on the same page. mr. murdoch used this opportunity get his messages across to the prime minister, in like manner as modern politicians so often hope the press will unveil them. by getting his message across, it is arguable that what he was doing was advertising his personal qualities to baroness thatcher. that is why face-to-face interaction mattered. instinctively he knew which buttons to press. on fourth of january 19 anyone mr. murdoch could not predict whether he would be given a rough or any right in the context of the fair trading act 1973. recognizing always that the decision-making would resign with the secretary of state for trade and industry. if he must've been able

thatcher knew that was probable.one outcome was lower johnson might have close these two great titles, if you couldn't sell them. but there seems to be two purposes behind the lunch. one was to brief mrs. thatcher, give her your thoughts about what is described here as the embryonic and developing reagan administration. do you see that in paragraph two? >> yes, i think it shows at least the conversation, sometime me gossiping about australian and american politics. >> the three of you, if i can put it in this way, president-elect reagan, baroness thatcher and you were all of course on the same page politically, weren't you? >> i guess that's fair. yes, this was just before his inauguration. the meeting was. >> was part of the purpose of this meeting, if one could talk almost psychologically, to demonstrate to mrs. thatcher have very much you quote, one of us, one of us, baroness thatcher's terms, but was that part of your purpose of? >> no. >> of course you appreciated the importance of a face-to-face meeting. that's

when thatcher decided to to send a task force the totally unprepared for that totally convinced that the brits and indeed if it had been up to the foreign office that's exactly what would have happened the argentine invasion of the islands worked out pretty well though didn't it for the british government given that it was in such trouble domestically how much was this planned by britain to lure argentina into a trap to save us and skin. you're attributing too much intelligence to the british government it took everybody completely by surprise you know the political will certainly there were plenty of warnings that you know one of the things they say there was an intelligence failure no there was an invader failure of the intellect but that's permanent in british government it seems unable to process information and come up with sensible policies they campaign itself the way it was conducted was it done well was it a good idea in itself opinion i think they had to do it we had a legal and moral obligation to those islanders and if we did not keep our word to them we were worthless. h

therefore they did every and they and officialdom generally did everything possible to undermine thatcher and actually treasonously to undermine the operation to recover the falklands why was it on the raises agencies say why was it so closely fall was it because britain underestimated argentina know they just didn't have the capability i mean if they are doing times and waited another six months we could've done it would have had no more accurate carious would have had an m.r.i. and save us capability. as indeed it is happening now it's the same old story they are after us we can give cover all over the world account what about now what would happen if argentina attacked again would britain be able to pull together a task force and defend the islands they can't recover if the islands a lost now we can't get them back we're doing or genuinely do not have the capability this conservative government has once again emasculated the armed forces . which they've done regularly since the one nine hundred fifty s. . said all depends on whether. the big base mt pleasant can be held military or way

so therefore they were attacking they really wanted thatcher to go because they saw her as someone who might cut government spending and the almost obvious thing to cutting government spending is this regressive tax paid to the b.b.c. so therefore they did everything and they and officialdom generally did everything possible to undermine thatcher and actually treasonously to undermine the operation to recover the falklands why was it on the raises agencies say why was it so closely for was it because britain underestimated argentina no they just didn't have the capability i mean if they are doing times and waited another six months we couldn't have done it we do have no more aircraft carriers would have had no more on t.b.s. capability. as indeed is happening now the same old story. as we can give cover all over the world account what about now what would happen if argentina attacked again would britain be able to pull together a task force and defend the islands there can't recover if the islands are lost now we can't get them back we do genuinely do not have the capability this conse

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 international nationalization of two-thirds of the earth's surface. you know what i think of nationalization. she had been dismantling the nationalized industries in england and was very supportive. in any event, i am very pleased to be here. this is a terrific institution. it is a symbol of service throughout many decades now, and i thank each of you for your patriotism and your dedication. first let me make a couple of comments about things i am not going to talk much about. the phrase, the first time i heard the phrase compassionate conserv

, 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

thatcher also known by another name conferred on her in 1992. what is it? all right. with two questions to go.

haley thatcher. there's a picture of a haley thatcher catching a fish off the coast of suwannee, florida. tell us more. >> haley wrote like a lot of people wrote after the oil spill that the oil was coming closer and closer to this fishing cottage that had been in his family for 60 years. it was the most important place to him in the world. and he felt like the president's response to the oil spill had been very lackluster. he's a lawyer. he wrote a very nacely written but fairly critical letter sort of critical letter explaining why he felt the president's response was inadequate and why he worried about losing this place that he treasured on the gulf coast. it was another case where the president received this letter and it started this conversation where the president came down to the gulf coast and began to sort of have these roundtables where he heard from haley and people exactly like haley about why they were scared of losing this place. heard suggestions from them on what they should do. mean

thatcher's tories won the next three elections, all with rupert murdoch and his papers by her side.murdoch would gain a great deal from the relationship. >> mr. murdoch, sir... >> bergman: in 1981, two years into thatcher's first term, he was allowed to circumvent monopoly rules and buy two more papers: ttimes of london and the sunday times. harold evans was editor of the sunday times. he believes this was a critical moment. >> the seeds of the corrupt relationship which exploded in the phone-hacking scandal were actually there all the time in news corp. >> i don't like this at all. what's the point of this section? >> bergman: to get around the monopoly rules, murdoch had made promises to parliament to stay out of editorial decisions. >> if you don't listen to me, it'll be your fault, not my fault, if it doesn't work. >> bergman: evans says the promises meant little to murdoch. >> what's this about? oh, no! >> the promises to parliament were broken with impunity. and that was the moment when everybody should have realized that the government was so scared of rupert, he could do any

thatcher also known by another name conferred on her in 1992. what is it? all right.o 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 times? okay. 13 times, most admired woman. the answer is roll the tape. >> the experience which is the most valuable is the experience of doing things for yourselves. >> that was aunt bee, wags it not wouldn't you like to wake up

doctor wrote a private medical reports that specified his injuries appeared zimmerman has a close thatcherack eyes and two cut on the back of his head. the recommended him follow up with a ear nose and throat specialists but he did not. an attorney for the family reacted. >> what we do know is they did not believe the injuries were significant enough to go to the hospital. they did not even put a band-aid on his head. trayvon martin was fighting a man with a gun. he was in a battle for his life which she lost. >> the autopsy shows he had knuckle injuries. they could boost zimmerman's claim he was attacked. >> trayvon martin was fighting for his life. he was standing his ground. it was self-defense. if somebody got a gun i want to fight for my life. >> a 10 year old girl who was critically injured last month has now died. she was wounded when her father opened fire at the cracker barrel restaurant. she was hospitalized for about a month. the family members say she died peacefully at home. >> mitt romney has picked up another endorsement from george w. bush. he told abc news about his suppor

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

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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. >> 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

thatcher, i think what she is saying is who is that woman with all the cameras around her neck? why is she in my living room? i barged my way through as she was learning to do, thinking i was going to end up in a holding room somewhere when i ended up in her living room. and this is in the residence, what you would call the family room of the white house, the president announcing the operation with her daughter and the press secretary. and the bushes had invited the reverend billy graham to join them. in the camis. this was in the saudi desert on thanksgiving day before the start of operation desert storm. i think mrs. bush was on her fifth thanksgiving dinner at that time. and then once the campaign started it was non-stop. here we were at a beauty salon in new hampshire, and that is -- that is not helen thomas under the hair dryer. i know it looks like her. i'm not that cool. greeting well wishers in pennsylvania, bowling for votes in ohio. and on the campaign plane with marvin bush who is always fun to have around. here with marvin also. we were on a whistle stop tour through

>> 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