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British Prime Ministers – Margaret Thatcher (1979 – 1990)

 

250013-01   02:00:00 - 02:21:17            1981   SD        COL      USA;    [1981 - Reagan, Thatcher State Visit to White House, 26Feb81]
Ext. w/ President & wife announced & come out of White House to Ruffles & Flourishes fanfare.  People looking, waiting as motorcade arrives w/ Margaret & Denis Thatcher, walking w/ Reagans & to platform.
02:02:28  Margaret Thatcher & Reagan acknowledge crowd & listen to anthems played.
02:05:20  Leave platform & walk across lawn w/ Marine past color guard. (camera blocked by others some).  Photographers & spectators w/ cameras. 
02:08:04  Onto platform, Marine band plays & marches back & forth, zoom in on Reagan & Thatcher w/ shaky telephoto.
02:10:20  Military commands given off camera; Reagan to microphone.
02:11:07  Prime Minister Thatcher, on behalf of the American people, Nancy & I extend to you & your family a warm welcome to the United States...kindred nations of like minded people...bound by common language...a responsibility for freedom is ours to share...when we talked in London (before either in office)...
02:12:30  applause.  Outside Cambridge, curving rows of simple white markers testify to a time when Peace was lost & Britains & Americans united to turn back threats to Freedom...
02:13:20  re Atlantic Alliance...Soviet invasion in Afghanistan was a brutal....  Polish people must be allowed to work out their own problems...problems in other parts of the world such as Africa & Central America....
02:14:35  ..we have both suffered from substantial economic difficulties...
02:15:37  Thatcher to mic:  Mr. President I count it a double double joy that I am once again in the United States & that I am being greeted here by you, Mr. President, newly in office after a splendid victory...these are not easy times to assume & bear the responsibilities of international leadership...
02:17:00  We start on the basis of a common understanding...together we face the same dangers.... when you look for friends well be there.
02:18:10  We are both trying to set free the energies of our people...not so much in economic theory but in...
...frontiers of freedom...resolve to prevail against those who deny our ideals...you have understood our challenges...
02:19:26  Applause.  Both look out on the crowd as military commands are given off camera.  Then they leave the platform as band plays again while they walk to the steps up up past Marine drummers & horns.  Pose w/ Denis & Nancy at railing.
State Visit; Formal Ceremony;

221254          06:18:09 - 06:26:31            1982   SD        COL      France; (USA)            [Reagan Trip to France - Delegates at Joint Communique Meeting, Versailles.  06Jun82]

INCLUDING:
06:18:09 Economic Summit Conference
Delegates arriving and taking seats incl Francois Mitterand, Margaret Thatcher, Pierre Trudeau, Helmut Schmidt, Zenko Suzuki, Giovanni Spadolini.  Slow zoom in to MCU Reagan seated with Mitterand.
06:20:40  Mitterand delivers communique (SOF, French).  LS of all at desk w/ flags behind as Mitterand speaks.  Zoom back in for MS of Thatcher & Reagan concentrating on translation via headphones.
06:24:12  CU & MCU various leaders.
06:25:21

221254          06:26:34 - 06:37:19           1982   SD        COL      England;          [Reagan Trip to UK - Windsor Castle and Downing Street, 08Jun82]
INCLUDING:
06:34:53  Exterior Number 10 Downing Street.  Two police pose.  President & Mrs Reagan w/ party exit & say farewell to Margaret Thatcher and Dennis.  Press calls questions.  President into American limo, crowd milling outside Number 10.  Thatchers, General Haig & others wave, watch.
1982; 1980s; Reagans; Presidential Diplomacy; Ceremonial visit; British Royalty; England; Scenics;

250014-02   04:04:31 - 04:14:47            1982 (?)       SD        COL      USA      [1982 (?) - Thatcher Visit To Camp David & President Reagan, 22Dec82 (?)]
Marine Corps presidential helicopter arriving at Camp David, President Reagan in golf cart arrives & hurriedly walks over to great Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher w/ kiss; walk together to golf cart w/ few snowflakes falling.  Reporter:  Mr. President, do you expect anymore hostage releases?  R. shrugs, drives off in golf cart.
04:06:32  R. & Thatcher seated around table w/ Schultz, Rogers & others.
04:06:44  Black cut.
04:06:49  Ext. Arrival of two golf cart w/ Reagan & Thatcher in second, stop in front of Camp David House & go inside.  Int. w/ R. in chair talking to T. on sofa about the lights in the valley at night.
04:08:00  Color bars.
04:08:03  Press  cameramen on Camp David paved path in front of R. & T. who are walking & talking, seen thru trees & back to house.
04:09:55  Camera stop.  View of golf carts arriving around bend in road w/ R. & T in second of three carts (helicopter motor heard in background).  Reagan walks Margaret Thatcher to helicopter; kisses & waves goodbye.  Reagan back to golf cart, talks to military man.  CU helicopter door shutting, Reagan leaves before helicopter takes off. 
04:12:57  CU Propeller beginning to turn & zoom back; marine watching, CU pilot & two helicopters lifting off.
04:14:28  LS helicopters in flight.
Diplomacy; British - American;  22Dec84 (?); SDI; Strategic Defense Initiative;

250012-05   00:49:47 - 00:52:35            1985   SD        COL      Germany; USA; England; Canada;        [1985 - NATO Meeting, group photograph & sitting down for session 20Nov85 (?)]
Reagan, Kohl & others onto stage into positions for group photograph; Reagan & Brian Mulroney talking.  Pan other leaders.  Thatcher stands next to Reagan in center of groupl
00:51:04  Delegates talking before sitting down, Reagan between George Schultz & Margaret Thatcher.  Zoom in on Reagan & Thatcher.
00:52:09  View of room from side w/ observers.
Diplomatic Summit Meetings; 
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220612          10:26:35 - 10:33:54            1987 - 1988             SD        COL      USA
            [Margaret Thatcher Arrives At White House & State Dinner]
President Ronald Reagan & Nancy exit White House - arrival of limo carrying Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and husband Dennis.   Exchange greetings - George & Barbara Bush present.  Thatcher and Reagan onto Dais for playing of Anthems.   Maggie inspects troops.
10:30:17  INT White House - Honour guard precede Reagans and Thatchers wearing evening dress.
10:31:33  Reagan makes welcoming speech at dinner in honour of Thatcher.  Refers to Churchill and mutual admiration of USA and Britain. Toast the Queen.  Applause.

 

220735          16:05:37 - 16:17:35            1988   SD        COL      USA      State Visit of PM Thatcher to United States - Arrival Pt 1
Margaret Thatcher arrival and greets Reagan and Nancy, Bush & Barbara.  Welcome ceremony: Reagan and Thatcher as national anthem is played; pageant parade.

220735          16:28:12 - 16:33:47            1988   SD        COL      USA      State Visit of PM Thatcher to United States -  Oval Office Meeting
Q & A  with reporters - Margaret Thatcher & Reagan remarks re last meeting between them before end of Reagan presidency.
17:30:39 Thatcher reminisces about their first meeting around 1977.

220735          16:17:36 - 16:28:11            1988   SD        COL      USA      State Visit of PM Thatcher to United States - Arrival  Pt 2
16:17:36 Reagan welcome speech: when we contemplate the world how it is today and how it was when we first met eight years ago... re achievements since 1981.  ...almost Newtonian revolution in the science of economics... not more bureaucracy and redistribution of wealth, but less government and more freedom for the entrepreneur...   Re friendship between Britain and United States.
16:22:51 Margaret Thatcher speech:  When you welcomed me to the White House ... you forecast two things: first the world would be less dangerous if the West required the strength required for peace; and second, that Britain and American would stand side by side in that endeavour...  you have presided over a period of economic expansion, but above all you have restored faith in the American dream... thanks to your courage and your leadership the fire of individual freedom burns more brightly... right across the world... we count it as a privilege to join in your enlarging freedom and furthering the democratic way of life.

220735          16:33:49 - 16:44:57           1988   SD        COL      USA      State Visit of PM Thatcher to United States - Arrival for State Dinner & Reagan Toast
Nancy and Reagan  welcome Thatcher & Dennis on red carpet. Protesters heard shouting in background.
16:35:09 Reagan, Thatcher & spouses down Grand Staircase
16:36:25 Toasts in State Dining Room
Reagan speech: quotes Churchill about Americas selflessness in pursuing the cause of freedom;  re possible end of Communism; Thatcher & NATO; Thatchers lessening of government intervention;  Special relationship;  Thatchers economic achievements & foreign policy. General praise for Thatcher. Toast to Margaret Thatcher & Queen.

220735          16:44:58 - 16:54:35           1988   SD        COL      USA      State Visit of PM Thatcher to United States - State Dinner & Margaret Thatcher Toast
Thatcher speech: names other British PMs in office through two consecutive US presidencies. Reminisces bad old days before she and Reagan came to power;  her joy at Reagans election.  Quotes Churchill: As long as our people act in absolute faith... to each other, they need fear none and they need fear nothing.  Tribute to Nancy & her fight against drugs.  Congratulates Bush & Barbara on election victory. 
And not by eastern windows only,  When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly. But westward look, the land is bright. (poem by Arthur Hugh Clough, quoted by Churchill in 1941)
           

221255          20:26:31 - 20:33:49            1988   SD        COL      USA; England; UK        [TWTW, Cuts of Thatcher State Visit, 16Nov88]
Reagans out & stand w/ crowd waiting arrival.  MCU of Marine band leader w/ baton starting music.  MCU Reagans.  Limousine arrives & Mrs Thatcher gets out followed by husband.  Handshakes. Reagan directs her to VP Bush & wife, George Shultz & wife.  Mount platform & stand as announced.
20:29:02  President Reagan & Thatcher walk along military in dress uniforms at attention, then walk back across lawn as people applaud behind ropes.  Salutes by Reagan & military VIP.
20:30:13  Int. of White House as military honor guard into room, Thatchers down stairs in background & enter room w/ Reagans, pose.
20:31:31  Reagan at podium in dining room gives welcoming remarks.  Quotes Churchill in 1952 when meeting w/ journalists in New York, quotes from Martin Gilberts biography of Dr.s words about America.  20:33:10  Reagan gives toast to Margaret Thatcher. 
1980s American Government; Presidency; Daily Life; Ceremony;

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220619          18:36:25 - 18:39:20            1990   sd         Col       USA      World Leaders Meet for World Summit for Children

INCLUDING:
18:36:25 Interior of United Nations building - delegates arriving - some with children.  George Bush & Margaret Thatcher.  Conference hall - delegate in African robes walking to podium.
18:36:50



 

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