What Thatcher’s Partnership with Reagan Can Teach Us

Revisiting mutual tributes in the pages of NR, for the centennial of the Iron Lady’s birth

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Then-president Ronald Reagan and then-British prime minister Margaret Thatcher at the White House in 1983.

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Nearly four decades ago, National Review offered readers an extraordinary exchange: two leaders of the free world providing an inside look at their relationship, showing how friendship and shared values can move the course of history as surely as military power and economic strength.

Margaret Thatcher’s 1988 tribute to Ronald Reagan, and his 1989 tribute to her, published exclusively in National Review, endure as timeless reminders of the role that human connection and mutual respect can play on the global stage. They also capture something rare in public life: a genuine window into the friendship behind one of the most consequential alliances of the 20th century.

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David Trulio

David Trulio is the president and CEO of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute.

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