she was probably somewhat unhappy out of office because she always felt that she knew how to properly direct great britain, but she also had a very, very full life. she wrote her memoires, was enormously happy with her husband, she kept involved in public affairs until unfortunately dementia set in. so i think that might be exaggerated a bit. what do you think her legacy should be, rudy? well, i think revitalizing great britain. i think there s a real parallel between her and her good friend, ronald reagan. i always describe ronald reagan as the most consequential president of the second half of the 20th century. roosevelt is the most consequential of the first half. i think you could say about britain that churchill was the most consequential prime minister of the first half of the century and she was the most consequential the second half of the century. she really defined her country, she turned it in a different direction. and even tony blair, who i think also was a great prime
britain, but she also had a very, very full life. she wrote her memoires, was enormously happy with her husband, she kept involved in public affairs until unfortunately dementia set in. so i think that might be exaggerated a bit. what do you think her legacy should be, rudy? well, i think revitalizing great britain. i think there s a real parallel between her and her good friend, ronald reagan. i always describe ronald reagan as the most consequential president of the second half of the 20th century. roosevelt is the most consequential of the first half. i think you could say about britain that churchill was the most consequential prime minister of the first half of the century and she was the most consequential the second half of the century. she really defined her country, she turned it in a different direction. and even tony blair, who i think also was a great prime minister, but to some extent, he was a reaction to her. he had to take the labor party to the middle the way bill
capable of great acts of kindness. she was also somebody who had a ferocious work ethic. she lived off about three or four hours sleep a night. she used to get a tumbler of whiskey down at the end of the evening, wake up in the middle of the night and go off again. remarkable energy and so on. someone said to me something very interesting today. they said you know, she was never really happy again after she was kicked out of office. can you recognize that in somebody like her who was so consumed by the job and the power? sure. i think that s probably true, although probably exaggerated. i got to know margaret thatcher better after she was out of office. that s when i got to talk to her, got to know her. i once substituted for her at a speech when she got ill. she was probably somewhat unhappy out of office because she always felt that she knew how to properly direct great britain, but she also had a very, very full life. she wrote her memoires, was enormously happy with her husband,
. welcome back to hannity as we continue with former vice president dick cheney and his memoires. it hit bookshelves this week. it contains very candid moments from his eight years in office, including his request for former president bush to pardon scooter libby. he said, quote, mr. president, you are leaving a good man wounded on the field of battle. i want to go back to this one second here because you write about this extensively and, you know, you said that you were angry about this. and you used those words. bring us inside, was the conversation in the oval office, where did that final conversation take place? well, this particular one was actually in the small office next to the oval office where we had lunch once a week. it s where the president had lunch just about every day. and this was the last meeting of, you know, eight years worth of meetings where the two of us would sit down alone and talk