From one astute reader:
I would be quite pleased if some publisher decided to print Lady Thatcher’s eulogy (and perhaps all those given yesterday) on a card, so bookstore clerks can hand it out to customers each time someone purchases Edmund Morris’s “Dutch.”
On the top of the card, it’ll just say “Read this, and you can skip the book. You will understand him better this way.”
And from another:
Lady Thatcher must have known that the “The Soviet Union imploded on it’s own-Reagan just happened to be there, and besides, it was all Gorbachev” types would be out immediately and she called them all out. She did it elegantly, but she did it, and her use of “Great Liberator” and the checking off of the East European capitals left no doubt where the credit belongs. (She’s probably the only person in the world who could do it.)
Lady Thatcher, the only person in the world who could have done it?
Indeed she was.






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