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...Thatcher was an important bridge between the two superpower leaders — “an agent of influence in both directions”, as Sir Percy Cradock, her foreign policy adviser, mischievously put it....
...With no formal training, she was contemplating how to begin when her husband invited the designer Percy Cane (1881-1976) to visit with a view to taking it on....
...He tells me he dined at the White House with Ronald Reagan when Princess Diana danced with John Travolta but then highlights his lack of pomp by noting he rejected a chauffeured car to get him there....
...In 1981 he was rejected by a bipartisan majority on the Senate foreign relations committee, then controlled by the Republican party, as Ronald Reagan’s nominee for a senior state department job....
...Masters in the art of torture, the Iranian clerics delayed the release of the diplomats until minutes after Carter had relinquished the presidency to Ronald Reagan. Two interim judgments....
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