When the 40th president of the United States died in 2004, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told mourners at his funeral that “Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly. He acted upon them decisively. When the world threw problems at the White House, he was not baffled or disorientated or overwhelmed. He knew almost instinctively what to do.”
Had Reagan outlived Lady Thatcher, he could have described her with the same bracing clarity that marked so much of the public life of Britain’s longest-serving prime minister of the 20th century, who died yesterday at the age of 87 after a stroke.
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