margaret thatcher didn't. she rejected these attitudes and believe in america and the special relationship which may mean you grow up with the vietnam war and watergate, stronger patriot and a believer in the british american great mass. the last time i spoke to flee the thatcher -- lady thatcher was in the office building. she had dedicated a painting of her and of ronald reagan, and so i talked to her afterwards briefly and i said i met her a few years earlier in parliament. and i have lived in britain for almost 12 years as a student there. she turned to me and said in that way you lived in britain - the prime minister and never came to visit me? [laughter] for the younger conservatives in the audience today, your role will be like margaret thatcher. you will have to clean up the mess today. the united states isn't headed in a good direction and will fall upon your shoulders to clean up this mess. but you can take heart somebody did it before and it can be done. i would advise you to read about her, study t

with lady thatcher's chief of staff.thatcher's chief advisor in the first and interview went very well, fortunately. i was invited back for a second interview with the lady herself. this was truly daunting experience, but also exciting experience. i spent 45 minutes being interviewed by margaret thatcher. she used to say that she would decide in 30 seconds whether she likes someone or not. she formed opinions about people and would decide almost on the spot whether she trusted somebody. and so, going in for this job interview, as you can imagine, was quite an extraordinary experience. fortunately, i think she likes me and i was given the job. she had actually read very closely a book written by my advisor radio, paul kennedy, and during the interview, when i mentioned paul kennedy, she actually said yes, i know that book. and she immediately cut off her chair and she went over to her bookcase in the corner to find the book. she literally went down on her hands and knees, looking for this book. she pulled out firstly anot

if you believe the margaret thatcher version of thatcher all it is is wonderful stand on principle about everything. and this is not completely untrue. she was a person of real principle. but it's not the only thing. she is intensely political person, and very, very keen on her own survival. and very personally ambitious as well as jen, genuinely patriot. the luck for her they came together. can be a bad thing. she had huge egg gism but served good purposes. >> right. >> host: also it comes through i think you have -- on her personal, on her sort of sense on her interesting -- [inaudible] which i found surprising she was interested -- >> guest: yeah. >> host: throughout her life. >> guest: you shouldn't when you look at how she dressed. but she was. there was always this domestic side to her. and of course the famous wet in the handbag. sometimes a shield, sometimes a more aggressive weapon. she would -- she knew how to -- she loved having a good handbag and knew the importance of the symbol. and hand bag was inside the handbag we think she loved to dramatically draw out. she would have

how important was class to margaret thatcher? >> very important because she came from the outside and had to overcome of the double barrier the wrong class issue in the wrong sex. but it is a mistake to think she was tossed kyle to traditional social order in britain. she was a believer in opportunity by not imposing equality it had a sense of british history and very much respected the monarchy coming and aristocracy and constitutional order. you would like as long as she is not patronized. so if she did not like the of prime minister but even more because he treated us like a gentleman and she was not trying to overthrow everything but we galvanize the greatness. >> host: the point you make of her being very conservative on constitutional matters so although she was about small government but not about pushing back. >> i think she was definitely been more in terms of this is written in the social provision. >> host: she did do some for the welfare state but not enough. >> guest: the bad it is not what she did tackle but what sh

homeownership now is back to levels pre margaret thatcher at the time of margaret thatcher margaret thatcher in history now will be remembered as the great del boy of british politics being eastender type who's got the great plan to strike it rich in the course of the show only fools and horses for those people living outside of the u.k. who may have never heard of del boy which wouldn't be ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of the global population but there's a scheming come out having do it in this movie only stevie show who is. an american would be jackie gleason in the honeymooners to give it some context art carney i believe was all there all scheming to make a quick buck so here's margaret thatcher who had this great plan of oh let's follow hike frederick. and let's let's let's deregulate and let's a commercialised financial eyes and give everyone a chance to own their own council state flophouse a bug infested dome and now here we are forty years later home ownership back to where they were all came back to the beginning again so let's go down to our grave right now scratch out

thatcher accuse him of wanting republican own plays in the north. despite their disagreement take me to keep working on a possible deal but then after post summit press conference the prime minister reacted negatively to the proposals of the new on a forum that the entire time. that is at his own press conference in their nature fitzgerald was visibly taken aback or just a few we've got a whole range of possible issues. i am the irish ambassador to london note or told british officials and a large donations had been profoundly altered for the worse it would be very difficult indeed to recover from the press conference which have profoundly shocked the whole of march opinion his british counterpart in dublin that by statute to say something to him to the damage but not to praise fitzgerald has this quote he said. confirm our suspicions that he was a poodle. david mccullough our teens the family of a woman who disappeared in washington tuesday center trent is the color may continue to pay for information regarding her whereabouts and that the kenyan w

uk government has released data going back to margaret thatcher's data.onsidered mobilizing troops again striking coal miners. she was told that the bank of england and treasury were trying to undermine her policy of letting the pound float. >> welcome back. onto the important stuff. today marks the birthday of of " whoan behind "the hobbit was born this day in 1892. fans will raise a glass at 9 p.m. local time to make a toast to the professor. toppedekend, the hobbit the box office for the third weekend in a row. second of three films based the novel and is made over 600 million bucks. this grossed 1.8 alien dollars. warner bros. might be joining those fans in raising a glass in celebration to the man today. the lordr sat through of the rings and is certainly one ever be doing it for this. before thefinitely book. >> the man was paid by the word. iscertainly warner bros. being paid by the word. let's move on to hong kong because prices are among the most expensive in the world. they're still out of reach for many. had many people looking skyward for a so

yes max cory doctorow of bling bling says this thatcher slow motion housing time bomb housing in the u.k. is a microcosm for everything wrong with neo liberalism corruption cronyism grinding human misery and funny accounting to prove that it's all working honestly so he's talking about and everybody in town has been talking about james meeks piece in the london review of books called where will we live because right now at the moment there are about two hundred fifty thousand households being formed per year in the united kingdom and yet only about one hundred thousand private properties being built that's included from the private sector prices are soaring and yet for some reason no private contractors want to come in and build homes well it's the economics of extension so they're not building homes for british people and as they become extinct through austerity measures that starve them to death their remaining housing stock goes up in value just like the japanese fishermen who fish big bluefin tuna to extinction that turned it in their refrigerator is worth more because there's le

>> there was another footnote and nelson mandela died very recently at the time margaret thatcher usedribe nelson mandela as a terrorist and with the leader in 1984 she did not bother mentioning mandela at all and there were private talks and no notes taken but it appears at the time she thought mandela was either a terrorist or insignificant and not worth any discussion. in later years she claimed she had brought up mandela with him and in part she had been responsible for bouncing the south african leadership to getting him released but this seems to suggest the opposite was true. and for all her attempts to stick to her guns and describe mandela as being a bad man, i tell you what this demonstrates is she didn't understand the way the wind of history was blowing. >> reporter: live in london. heavy snowfall and freezing conditions hit parts of the united states and new york, governor has a state of emergency across the state, major highways were shut down overnight and schools have been closed and dominick cain has the latest. >> the weather will not go away and may look like a pictu

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then you had thatcher who decided to bring about an enormous housing debt enabled fake boom and that's going to go right back into the into the garbage to get back to that chart you saw that the house prices rise stratospherically as it collapses in the house bill. and so those are tied together but all of that so-called wealth given to the private sector they didn't do anything with it they didn't stir innovation entrepreneurship the economy no new jobs were created they basically spent it on booze and new clothes and trips to you know the canary islands didn't seem to go back into the economy so going back to the story they have to still there the poor people didn't disappear because all that wealth given to a few select few who were able to buy these price these properties at fifty percent discount they didn't create new jobs it into anything to stir the economy so they still had to the government still had to pay. you know housing benefit so right to buy thus created an astonishing leap of state money taxpayers' money if you like to think of it that way into the hands of a rented a

in one thousand nine hundred thirty nine when margaret thatcher began forcing local authorities to sell council houses to any sitting tenant able and eager to buy of discounts of up to fifty percent but with the money they earned councils were not allowed to build new housing they received forty billion pounds over the next twenty five years that was at the half price discount it was housing stock built by the taxpayer given to a few select few who were able to profit the extra fifty percent and either move to spain where they've now lost all that money in the house from kraft but this is the case going back to pat quinn's comments she's not paranoid the government does want to kill her because just like in previous genocides where there is the american indians or others famous examples of genocide it's not paranoia the government does want to kill or because she's a drain on the system. and if she's gone then they can you know flip or house or give it to cronies and she's not wanted in this country pat quinn i mean you should maybe move the ball gary or something you don't want to hear

he spoke slowly about thatcher. turned to nancy and he said his life began when he met her and it was rich and full ever since. there was a time when they left the white house that it was magical for them. >> this tour she gave -- she talked about alzheimer's and the effect on her. >> what have you learned about this disease? >> it is probably the worst disease you can ever have. >> why? >> you lose contact and you are not able to share all those wonderful memories that we have. we had a wonderful life. >> can you have a conversation that makes sense to you? >> not now. no. >> the letter itself, what were the circumstances in which he wrote the letter? >> i was with him and we were in the library. he sat down and wrote it. that was it. >> first draft? >> first draft. he crossed out one or two words in there. i don't know what that was. only ronnie could write a letter like that. >> she devoted, once his illness became debilitating, she devoted her life to being his caretaker. occasionally she would make an entrance

thatcher did not know history in any accurate way in did not have a strong historical mind but she had a strong romantic a sense of history of britain and, like churchill, the english speaking people. and she has some idea to my romantic idea of the destiny of these people. this is really important. and i think the key to thatcherism is to do with an idea that only as doing something new, but a restoration, restoring certain values which are key to a western english speaking, particularly english speaking civilizations. churchill, nelson, it the first -- the accuracy, but it was very real, both true, and quite personal in their mind. she knew vast chunks by heart. she is a romantic patriot as well as a rational communist. it. >> host: this is volume one. when can we expect to see it? >> i don't like being asked to tell you. so much so do. quite a lot, but there is more to do. i very much hope that, you know, within two years -- i don't like to put a precise time on it. >> what kind of working routine the you have? >> a regular one. i write and pile up and right. sometimes i might not b

is there a thatcher out there for conservative politics now? >> i don't think so.ill coming out of the downturn. it is like after the new deal. the pendulum has swung in one direction. it will swing back. >> we will do an entire three-hour show on margaret thatcher. thank you so much. mike mckee, tell us about these markets. >> it is indeed. you can see everything reflected in the forex market. japanese yen is picking up a lot of around. china concerns are driving those countries that fell. the aussie dollar is down by almost one percent. unrest in turkey and you can see the result. the economy in russia is weighing on the russian ruble. it is a worldwide currency collapse. >> record low. we will continue to monitor them. we also want to say thank you to david last. editor and white house adviser. you are watching bloomberg tv. we are streaming live on your phone, tablet, and bloomberg.com. ♪ >> flight to safety. investors are scrambling out of argentina. pushing global stocks lower. the credit card breach at neiman marcus was bigger and deeper than first thought.

margaret thatcher was a breakthrough. she turned out author airian and right wing as any other authoritarian. barack obama was magnificent. he turned out as tonnistic as bill clinton, a poor white brother from arkansas. so helicopter , she's from outside of chicago, first woman president i want to fight against patriarch, homophobian, and anti-sem ittize im >> she has fought with that and dealt with some of those issues. >> within the formal legal areen ayou are right. i'm with them when they came out to same-sex marriage, i was with them. it should be a federal affair. i'm talking about detecting. struggles against anti-mem ittism and antisexism and racism to issues of class, issues of economic injustice and most importantly issues of just outside of the united states. >> i have to ask you i've been following you for a long time. you are wearing your uniform, black tie. with why do you wear black. >> comes out of the legacy of john col train, and martin luther king where we put on the cemetery clothes. we are coffin read

one is margaret thatcher. first, you have to win the argument then you win the vote. you have to think about -- what i'm going say to a lot of liberals. it's so true across the board. they might have been great ideas. they don't work. so i would partly say, gee, you look at the poorest neighborhood in southern california. you think governments work? tell me about your job prospect compared to your parents' at your age. tell me about your student loans. you know, the obama people say, boy, you now get to stay on your participant's insurance until you are 26. my answer is i would like you to have a job so you have your own insurance before you are 26. [applause] mr. speaker, my name is tom adams. who do you feel we have in government right now that could champion an action you're trying to promote? >> i think there are a lot of pretty smart people. first of all, i think there are some governors who are doing very interesting things. if you look at governor scott walker, for example, he's really -- plldz a -- [applause] a big impact. if you look at governor rick perry. t

and margaret thatcher is responding to your argument. >> i agree with her and the point is that rathern having a big gap we should all be together. >> selects talk about this in terms of the very poor and the very wealthy. and you can't make it on $7 and 25 cents an hour. fifteen dollars an hour is a fair minimum wage. and there has not been a study produced that indicates this. mcdonald's talks about that and that is wrong. and it is just not right. raising the minimum wage cost people jobs is what they say and it does not. >> but isn't it logical that if it cost more and you will get a little bit less of a? john: well, what do you think? >> nobody, but nobody can live on that. they work 60 or 70 hours a week and you cannot expect them to live on this income is especially when the ceo is making 500 or 600 times and you think anyone is worth that kind of money? do you think any ceo is what that? john: i'm grossed out by it. but if the markets as they are committee must be. because somebody is voluntarily paying them. >> the board of directors is usually appointed by a ceo. john: i say

instead of ordering civil service to investigate, why just't the prime minister agree with margaret thatcher, whether it had anything to do with the westland helicopter deal at the time? honorablethe gentleman might have gone a conspiracy theory too far on this one. it is very important that we get to the bottom of what happened and that is why i have asked the cabinet secretaries to reread this review. we will establish the facts. the process is underway. i wanted to be fast and find out the truth. the findings will be made public. i will never forget my own visit to the golden temple. one of the most beautiful and serene places anywhere on this planet. what happened 30 years ago led to a tragic loss of life. it remains a source of deep pain . the prime minister is right to apologize for what has happened and i understand the concerns. let's wait for the outcome of the review by sir jeremy hayward. far, itnote that, so has not found any evidence to contradict the insistence by senior indian army commanders responsible at the time, it was planned and carried out solely by the indian army. so

something and with all that effort in all those thousands of participants all you do is walk around thatcher pants on this idea most of the korea by some people in a pre deck and lifestyle because the community to stop organizing people for the goal of spreading joy a lot of us can't afford puttin on the table in the future could you guys please try some camp was full of donating more pencils recycling more. maybe best of all an artist of all pencils job creating whacking this is fine born you have the power of thousands of trials to its volunteers please use it responsibly and productively but that's just my opinion the room. when ansett and the us and russia moscow advocated all that has it that the most prominent independent and well known russian newspaper in the west on. weeks. we just get famous by it. the stark responded that what i can see me in the acting was good and bad ah so to say that killed my organization uses paper. it implies force commander and the one in my country to know what that school's first manuscript read the op a lot of people asking. the open casket at the quest

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and margaret thatcher is responding to your argument. >> i agree with her and the point is that rathern having a big gap we should all be together. >> selects talk about this in terms of the very poor and the very wealthy. and you can't make it on $7 and 25 cents an hour. fifteen dollars an hour is a fair minimum wage. and there has not been a study produced that indicates this. mcdonald's talks about that and that is wrong. and it is just not right. raising the minimum wage cost people jobs is what th say and it does not. >> but isn't it logical that if it cost more and you will get a little bit less of a? john: well, what do you think? >> nobody, but nobody can live on that. they work 60 or 70 hours a week and you cannot expect them to live on this income is especially when the ceo is making 500 or 600 times and you think anyone is worth that kind of money? do you think any ceo is what that? john: i'm grossed out by it. but if the markets as they are committee must be. because somebody is voluntarily paying them. >> the board of directors is usually appointed by a ceo. john: i say th

margaret thatcher wrote me that it was the greatest speech she had ever heard.eorge heard it in the white house. it was that high because of controversy. isn't that too bad? i became a great speaker that day. who knows? somewhere out in this audience there may even be somebody who will one day follow in my footsteps and take over as the president's spouse, and i wish him well. [applause] >> you brought down the house with your closing line about the political spouse and you wish him luck. >> i did. >> what would be your advice for the first husband? >> the same thing , be yourself. and watch your mouth. i would tell them that. but be yourself. and take advantage of the opportunity. i had lunches for deformed children, heart, arthritis, cancer, nobody paid any attention except in the hometown from ore doctor came andsick child came from, then you got great publicity out in the country. that's where it counts. who cares what the broadcasts say? what you care about is that the people know that they helped. >> barbara bush, what should, in your view, people know abo

and finally here you know all these clean up costs that the government promises margaret thatcher speaking of neoliberalism brought in this nuclear energy promise that the cleanup cost would either be well the private companies would do it but then the state took over and now the state is paying more more more sellafield cleanup costs reaches sixty seven point five billion pounds says report that was earlier in the year it's now seventy billion already this is the taxpayer paid for the cleanup of nuclear waste with no sign of when the costs will stop rising according to the report you know in fukushima one hundred fifty billion so far they have nuclear gypsies that go in there and clean up is there certain to be dead soon well once again it's the economics of suicide brought to you by the leaders of japan u.k. and united states who all have the same economic policy of zero percent interest rates to fund the club takhar c. and cancer provocation through fracking and the u.k. public in the japanese public and american public can't wait to get cancer that's their goal in life most will golf a

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investigate, why doesn't the prime minister just ask lord jeffrey what they agreed with margaret thatcher? and whether that anything to do with the west and helicopter deal at the time? >> i for the audible children might have gone to conspiracy theory too far on this one. look, it is very important that we get to the bottom of what happened and that is what i've asked the cabinet secretary to review this review. able establish the facts, the process is underway. i want it to be fast, find out the truth and the findings will be made public. i remember and will never forget my own visit to the golden temple, one of the most beautiful and serene places anywhere on this planet. what happened 30 years ago led to a tragic loss of life but it remains a source of deep pain. prime minister's were right to apologize. i understand the concerns of these papers raise. so let's wait for the outcome of the review by sir jeremy heywood. i would note that so far it is not found any evidence to contradict the insistence by indian commanders responsible at the time, that the responsibly for this was planne

england but one of the reasons that england has that extreme level of debt it was evident maggie thatcher's big bang turn to england into this into the scent of hot money and financial speculation around the globe it's no surprise that things like ideology has value and so on it could in england rather than occurring in america so. it's got the most problematic level of the same time it can be kept alive by hot money and from frankly illegal money the most wiring i think in many ways in terms of a domestic situation would be the netherlands because they've got an extra strongly high level of household debt a high level of corporate debt as well and they've now been going backwards economically the some several years without the problems of spain without the problems of greece and so on so i'd say the netherlands are the most extreme example. now coming up after the break more with steve keen we talk about the australian economy and housing market plus in today's big deal at a harrison and i talk about what a big deal it is that some vegas casinos have started accepting bitcoin today just to

for its citizens acts and eighty f and show and it's a commonsense approach a cafe down that mr thatcher can't thank you very much anti fence line. he allows the team on its own processing key intending to around twenty to nineteen with a week and the third day of clashes left of the seventy police wounded on that number has since doubled. most suffered head injuries standings and has poisoning and the one else in the eu chance to find unbiased by saying it was provided by the ukrainian authorities. the exams and not reason and threatening to nationalist as ukraine's government has shown a lot of patients with price has said that would have been just passed in the war in any european or american seats the authorities issued a stroll in any patients in this matter there is absolutely no conceivable way that this sort the situation would have been allowed to happen in any other european states the morning will remain united states the authority to come down and hits the moment that the government that the greatest into this matter it stood the test is. he reads this blog heel position in t

england but one of the reasons that england has that extreme level of debt it was evident maggie thatcher's big bang turn to england into this into the center of hot money and financial speculation around the globe it's no surprise that things like a.r.g.s value and so on it could in england rather than occurring in america so. it's got the most problematic level of the same time it can be kept alive by hot money and from frankly illegal money the most glaring i think in many ways in terms of a domestic situation would be the netherlands because they've got an extremely strongly high level of household debt a high level of corporate debt as well and they've now been going backwards economically the some several years without the problems of spain without the problems of greece and so on so i'd say the netherlands are the most extreme example. now coming up after the break more with steve keen we talk about the australian economy and housing markets plus in today's big deal i did harrison and i talk about what a big deal it is that some vegas casinos have started accepting bitcoin today just

and then charles moore talks about his book on margaret thatcher. and then the life of a latin american hero. booktv and prime time is at 8 p.m. eastern. on next washington journal, mitt romney's former speech writer is on the show. and then jennifer lawless talks about the impact of women in politics. and your emails and phone calls and tweets. washington journal is live at 7 a.m. eastern daily on c-span. >> i think it is interesting to talk about how the republican party is less unified than the democratic party. i think it is an interesting time to be study this. for the first time in