History Headlines April 8, 2013: Margaret Thatcher & Ronald Reagan: Was their ‘special relationship’ partly a myth?

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Thatcher and Reagan: Was their ‘special relationship’ partly a myth?

Source: WaPo, 4-8-13

President Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher talk in New York in 1985. (MIKE SARGENT/AFP/Getty Images)

U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday, and U.S. President Ronald Reagan are remembered as a geopolitical “power couple,” a partnership that pushed for free-market conservatism and helped win the Cold War. In both U.S. and U.K. politics, their names are practically synonymous.

But the truth was far more complicated and, particularly when it came to the more difficult moments of the Cold War, Reagan and Thatcher found plenty to disagree on. Nicholas Henderson, the U.K. ambassador to Washington under Thatcher, was later asked by a British politician if he had learned any real secrets. He paused before saying, “If I reported to you what Mrs. Thatcher really thought about President Reagan, it would damage Anglo-American relations.” That quote was revealed in a book released last year by historian Richard Aldous, “Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship”. ..READ MORE

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