Margaret Thatcher Quotes
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Thatcher, Margaret. The Downing Street Years. HarperCollins, 1993.
A large part of German propaganda was directed not only to Germans and the Axis, but one target was Englishmen and Americans. One objective was to try and cause strains in the amazingly strong British-American Alliance. In this cartoon Roosevelt—the large adult figure—is leading the small child, Churchill, by the hand. Many British were sensitive about this possibility.
During the Vietnam War the Joint Chiefs of Staff wished direct access to President Johnson. The Secretary of Defense advised the chiefs:
Trump had a psychological characteristic that worked to his disadvantage in his political endeavors. He could not abide being criticized or attacked. In this case, some of his proposed policies coincided with those of Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and leaders of his campaign staff had business relationships in Russia. Hillary Clinton, in the the last of the 2016 Presidential debates, had referred to him as “Putin’s puppet”, and Trump blurted out this quotation while she was still talking as it was her turn in the debate.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As prime minister, she implemented policies that became known as Thatcherism.
