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Jul 5, 2018 · The venue, a two-hour drive from Downing Street in the county of Buckinghamshire, has been the country residence of every prime minister since David Lloyd George in the early 20th century....
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Apr 8, 2013 · In the United States, Thatcher’s old soulmate Ronald Reagan had been replaced by George Bush. The new President was mistrustful of her influence and anxious at the behest of his advisers to...
Aug 2, 1990 · MT in washington (6 AUG 1990) The following day, Monday 6 August, MT concluded her programme at Aspen and flew to Washington. She has described her meeting with the President in the Oval Office , following which she joined the President in speaking briefly to the press .
Jan 15, 2021 · The next stages in the build-up to war were recalled by Margaret Thatcher herself in her memoirs – The Downing Street Years – and are today available via the Margaret Thatcher Foundation. She discussed the hours spent inside the Oval Office debating George Bush and his White House officials over next steps.
- David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson
- Churchill and Roosevelt
- Clement Attlee and Harry Truman
- Churchill/Sir Anthony Eden/Harold Macmillan and Dwight Eisenhower
- Harold Macmillan and John F Kennedy
- Harold Wilson and Lyndon Johnson
- Edward Heath and Richard Nixon
- James Callaghan and Gerald Ford/Jimmy Carter
- Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan
- John Major and George Bush Sr
The president, a high-minded but ruthless Democrat, told a British official: "You must not speak of us who come over here as cousins, still less as brothers. We are neither." But Lloyd George charmed him and agreed with Wilson's priority to create a League of Nations, in order to get his way on terms with defeated Germany at the Versailles peace co...
Prime ministers and presidents did not meet between the wars, but Churchill, always eager to make money on the US lecture circuit, visited often. "My greatest wish," he told the new president's son in 1933, was to be prime minister and talk by phone to the Oval Office every day. Five days after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor brought the US into the...
Churchill's Labour deputy in the wartime coalition was in the US when FDR died and met the new president immediately. They liked each other, both being plain-spoken, modest, "feet-on-the-ground", and mistrustful of generals. Within months, Attlee was PM, but the US pulled the financial plug on Britain and the pair did not meet again until Attlee fl...
All were close wartime partners, but Ike was horrified by the ageing Churchill's half-cocked efforts to set up a "parley at the summit" (a new word) with Stalin. Even worse, Eden cut a secret deal with France and Israel to seize the Suez canal in 1956. The US dumped sterling and Eden was forced into a ceasefire. SuperMac had to repair the damage.
The Anglophile Kennedy was grateful for British intelligence in the Cuban missile crisis and admired avuncular Macmillan's "unflappable" style as well as his partial nuclear test ban treaty. When British missile technology flopped he sold the UK the Polaris missiles (later Trident). Macmillan and Jackie Kennedy were also close; both were betrayed s...
Labour's new prime minister in 1964 saw himself as a modernising JFK but had to deal with the earthy Lyndon Johnson, mired in the Vietnam war. Wilson had a weak hand as economic problems forced Britain's military retreat from the Gulf. He refused to send a token British force to Saigon, a saving grace to Labour MPs.
Heath was the odd man out: he deliberately refused to cosy up to Washington because he wanted to persuade France to lift its veto on UK membership of the future EU. So no early visits or phone calls, though Nixon came to Chequers. Fellow-loner Nixon admired Heath and was puzzled. Both did economic U-turns, and Nixon made up with China, which annoye...
Callaghan and Ford – two unelected successors – got on well and became real long-term friends, not least because both knew and trusted Henry Kissinger. The US needed allies, especially Atlanticist realists, which helped. Carter, who beat Ford in 1976, telephoned Callaghan for a long chat on 13 January 1977 – a week before his inaugural – and the PM...
They had met in 1975 as allies in the free market revival. He thought she was clever, she thought him charming and easily underestimated. On 25 February 1981 she became the first foreign leader to visit his White House. They fought side by side for capitalism and against cold war Russia. He backed her 1982 war to retake the Falklands, but the next ...
They rubbed along, thrown together by the Gulf war they inherited in 1990-91 and by being the uncharismatic heirs to Thatcher and Reagan. They used the phone a lot, but there was tension over Northern Ireland and Bosnia.
Jun 18, 2019 · Threats of Ministerial resignations by senior Government ministers; Tory losses in European Parliament elections and a President of the United States – George Bush senior – visiting London.
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