Thank you all for coming. Thank you very much to the Heritage Foundation for hosting and organizing this event. A particular thank you to Ed Feulner and Heritage for tolerating me for the last five years or so an occasionally visiting Brit who loves America and loves Heritage. Mrs. Thatcher made many good decisions, but one of the best was to become patron of The Heritage Foundation. Another was to promote the foundation of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom within Heritage, which keeps her legacy alive and well, and that’s important.
what could happen if north korea would use its ultimate weapon accidentally or on purpose. vladimir putin saying that nuclear war on the korean peninsula would make chernobyl look like quote, a fairy tale. it s the worst nuclear accident in history. 31 people died, but tens of thousands more are thought to have suffered health damage from the radiation fallout. we are also getting news this hour as the world remembers one of the great political leaders of our time. the iron lady, former british prime minister margaret thatcher, dead today at age 87. a spokesman saying mrs. thatcher died peacefully this morning from complications due to a stroke. you re looking at pictures on the left there of 10 downing street, the prime minister s residence. mrs. thatcher held her office for 11 remarkable years, the longest tenure in that
the rich were less rich. and what a policy. yes, he would rather have the poor poorer, provided the rich are less rich. that is the liberal policy. yes, it came out he didn t intend it to, but it did. the centers of history and experience which is sure when principles have to be defended, when good has to be upheld. when evil has to be overcome, then britain will take up arms. megyn: and joining me now chris stirewalt, our digital power play and editor power play live. what a woman. my daughter turned one this time last year and about to turn two and i put pictures of strong, female leaders around our house. she s only one-year-old at the time and i thought it might serve as inspiration and no room like that would be complete without a picture of margaret thatcher. no, and you think about how much more remarkable it was when she took over her own
looking here to this country, you write in your power play piece today about whether such particularly a female leader could emerge in 2013 in the good old us of a? for the republican party they re always looking for another reagan, where is the next reagan? we need a reagan. well, there aren t any reagans on the horizon of the republican party. he was already famous, a movie star. a two term governor of california, steeped in the conservative movement. the guy, the great communicator and when he broke through in 76 and president in 80 he was a known commodity. and margaret thatcher came out of nowhere, between 1970-75 her rise to power was swift and she rose really from having been prior to that, tasked with education department, kind of a woman s
country s history. she was the first and only female british prime minister. flags flying today at half staff at buckingham palace, parliament and 10 downing street and queen elizabeth offering a ceremonial funeral at st. paul s cathedral. if you don t know margaret thatcher, what she stood for and how she changed the country. a small sample, in her final speech to parliament back in 1990. for the industries we have privatized are now in the top ten british businesses and at the very bottom of the list of 1,000 british businesses lie four nationalized businesses. they consume the wealth others create and give nothing back. what the honorable member is saying that he would rather the poor were poorer provided