Ronald Reagan Margaret Thatcher Mikhail Gorbachev
Margaret thatcher meets mikhail gorbachev 1984 the following extract from margaret thatcher s political memoir the downing street years recalls her december 1984 meeting with future soviet leader mikhail gorbachev.
Ronald reagan margaret thatcher mikhail gorbachev. Like reagan thatcher hated communism. Reagan a new deal democrat as a young man but an. But those meetings would no longer change the world.
Ronald reagan greeted mikhail gorbachev at 1000 am. With american president ronald reagan thatcher recognized the potential for transformative change in the rise of soviet leader mikhail gorbachev. The margaret thatcher i knew.
She broke into. The hatless coatless seventy four year old who had bounded out energetically in the bitter cold to greet the leader twenty years his junior. With an engaging smile.
Thatcher left office in 1990 and gorbachev in 1991. I now had to consider the next step in my strategy of gaining closer relations with the soviet union. When mikhail gorbachev came to london in 1984 he was garlanded and celebrated by margaret thatcher.
The human factor offers some fascinating and at times amusing insights into the way gorbachev reagan and thatcher viewed each other. Margaret thatcher named some of her outfits after other world leaders including mikhail gorbachev and ronald reagan newly released documents show. They continued to meet occasionally.
On tuesday november 19 the summit began. A 1990 diary entry records she wore her pink. Flashbulbs lit the landscape.
We can do business together. Reagan and gorbachev both sought change president ronald reagan and soviet general secretary mikhail gorbachev signing the arms control agreement banning the use of intermediate range nuclear. I like mr gorbachev she said.
Soviet leader mikhail gorbachev met briefly with margaret thatcher at raf brize norton en route to the imf sumit with president regan 78 december 1987.