Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography (144 page)

1
.
Papers relating to the compilation of Lady Thatcher’s memoirs, The Thatcher Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge, THCR 4/4.
2
.
Carol Thatcher,
Below the Parapet:
The Biography of Denis Thatcher
HarperCollins, 1996, p. 91.
3
.
Interview with Sir Denis Thatcher.
4
.
Carol Thatcher,
Below the Parapet
, p. 92.
5
.
Interview with Carol Thatcher.
6
.
Ibid.
7
.
Ibid.
8
.
Interview with Sir Denis Thatcher.
9
.
Interview with Lady Thatcher.
10
.
Hansard, HC Deb 3 Dec. 1964 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101285
).
11
.
Ibid.
12
.
Carol Thatcher,
Below the Parapet
, p. 93.
13
.
Finchley Press
, 29 Jan. 1965 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101308
).
14
.
Conversation with Sir Denis Thatcher.
15
.
Information from THCR 4/4.
16
.
Ibid.
17
.
Margaret Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, HarperCollins, 1995, p. 136.
18
.
Ibid., p. 135.
19
.
THCR 4/4.
20
.
Finchley Press
, 13 Aug. 1965 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101346
).
21
.
THCR 4/4.
22
.
See Hansard, HC Deb 6 Dec. 1965 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101366
).
23
.
Daily Mail
, 10 May 1966.
24
.
Speech to Reading Conservative Women, 21 May 1965, reported in
Reading Chronicle
, 28 May 1965 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101330
).
25
.
News of the World
, 5 May 1968 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101617
).
26
.
Speech to Motor Agents’ Association, 21 Oct. 1969 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101693
).
27
.
THCR 4/4.
28
.
Hansard, HC Deb 31 Jan. 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101442
).
29
.
THCR 4/4.
30
.
Hansard, HC Deb 28 July 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101513
).
31
.
Ibid., 5 May 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101481
).
32
.
Ibid.
33
.
Ibid.
34
.
See Hansard, HC Deb 27 June 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101497
).
35
.
Ibid., 12 July 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101505
).
36
.
Ibid., 20 July 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101511
).
37
.
Ibid., 25 Oct. 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101523
).
38
.
James Prior,
A Balance of Power
, Hamish Hamilton, 1986, p. 42.
39
.
Any Questions?
(BBC Light Programme), Culdrose, 10 June 1966, BBC Written Archives.
40
.
Ibid. (BBC Radio 1 and 2), Leeds, 5 Apr. 1968 (Christopher Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements of Margaret Thatcher 1945–90 on CD-ROM
, Oxford University Press, 1998/2000).
41
.
Ibid., Northampton, 30 Jan. 1970 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
42
.
Ibid., Plymouth, 4 Oct. 1968 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
43
.
THCR 4/4.
44
.
Ibid.
45
.
Woman’s Hour
(BBC Radio 4), 9 Apr. 1970 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101845
).
46
.
Speech to Conservative Party Conference, 10 Oct. 1969 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101687
).
47
.
Letter to Muriel, 18 Oct. 1966.
48
.
Speech to Finchley Conservatives, 10 Mar. 1966, reported in
Finchley Press
, 18 Mar. 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101458
).
49
.
Finchley Press
, 25 Mar. 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101472
).
50
.
Ibid.
51
.
Daily Telegraph Magazine
, 18 Mar. 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101465
).
52
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Speech in Finchley, 18 Mar. 1966, reported in
Finchley Press
, 25 Mar. 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101466
).
53
.
Speech in Finchley, 14 Mar. 1966, reported in
Finchley Press
, 18 Mar. 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101460
).
54
.
Hansard, HC Deb 26 July 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101512
).
55
.
Hansard, HC Deb 28 July 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101513
).
56
.
Finchley Press
, 2 Sept. 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101516
).
57
.
Hansard, HC Deb 27 June 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101497
).
58
.
See Hansard, HC Deb 25 Oct. 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101523
).
59
.
Hansard, HC Deb 31 Jan 1967 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101539
).
60
.
Any Questions?
(BBC Light Programme), Paignton, 18 Nov. 1966 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
61
.
Hansard, HC Deb 30 Nov. 1966 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101530
).
62
.
Ibid., 17 Apr. 1967 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101551
).
63
.
Ibid.
64
.
Ibid., 6 June 1967 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101564
).
65
.
Building Societies Gazette
, 9 Oct. 1967 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
66
.
Speech to Conservative Party Conference, 20 Oct. 1967 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101586
).
67
.
Sunday Times
, 5 Mar. 1967.
68
.
Hansard, HC Deb 26 Oct. 1967 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101587
).
69
.
Any Questions?
(BBC Radio 1 and 2), Llandaff, 3 Nov. 1967 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
70
.
All above quotations from Hansard, HC Deb 28 Nov. 1967 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101594
).
71
.
Hansard, HC Deb 1 May 1968 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101616
).
72
.
THCR 4/4.
73
.
Ibid.
74
.
Daily Mirror
, 10 Oct. 1968 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
75
.
THCR 4/4.
76
.
Ibid.
77
.
Ibid.
78
.
Ibid.
79
.
John Campbell,
Margaret Thatcher
, 2 vols, Jonathan Cape, 2000, 2003, vol. i:
The Grocer’s Daughter
, p. 205.
80
.
Speech to Finchley Conservatives (Association AGM), 3 Mar. 1970, reported in
Finchley Press
, 6 Mar. 1970 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101721
).
81
.
Interview with Andrew Alexander.
82
.
Daily Telegraph
, 17 Mar. and 26 Apr. 1969 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101650
;
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101651
).
83
.
Speech to Finchley Anglo-Israel Friendship League, 24 June 1965, reported in
Finchley Press
, 2 July 1965 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101293
).
84
.
Ibid., reported in
Finchley Times
, 2 July 1965 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101293
).
85
.
Ibid., reported in
Finchley Press
, 2 July 1965 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101293
).
86
.
See article by Giles Scott-Smith, ‘ “Her Rather Ambitious Washington Program”: Margaret Thatcher’s International Visitor Program Visit to the United States in 1967’,
British Contemporary History
, vol. XVII, no. 4, Winter 2003.
87
.
THCR 1/10/1.
88
.
See the Appointment Books of Walt Rostow, 2 Mar. 1967, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, Austin TX.
89
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Campbell,
Margaret Thatcher
, vol. i, p. 176.
90
.
Jean Lashly to Natalie Greening, 29 Mar. 1967, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Collection (CU), Box 155, Folder 26. Special Collections Department, University of Arkansas Libraries Fayetteville.
91
.
Main source for Mrs Thatcher’s recollections of the visit: THCR 4/4.
92
.
CU archives, University of Arkansas Libraries.
93
.
Houston Post
, 9 Mar. 1967.
94
.
CU archives, University of Arkansas Libraries.
95
.
THCR 4/4.
96
.
Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, pp. 154–5.
97
.
Hansard, HC Deb 2 May 1967 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101558
).
98
.
Any Questions?
(BBC Radio 1 and 2), Llandaff, 3 Nov. 1967 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
99
.
Hansard, HC Deb 6 June 1967,
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101564
).
100
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Katharine Winn to Frances McPheeters, 19 Feb. 1969, English-Speaking Union (ESU) Archive, London.
101
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Katharine Winn to Frances McPheeters, 14 Feb. 1969, ESU Archive.
102
.
Ibid.
103
.
Mary Taggart to Frances McPheeters, 19 Mar. 1969, ESU Archive.
104
.
All ensuing quotations from THCR 4/4.
105
.
Ibid.
106
.
Ibid.
107
.
Conservative Party Archive, Bodleian Library, Oxford, LCC 1/2/6.
108
.
Ibid., LCC 1/2/8.
109
.
Speech to Finchley Conservatives (Association AGM), 4 Mar. 1965, reported in
Finchley Press
, 12 Mar. 1965 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101312
).
110
.
Speech to Friern Barnet Young Conservatives, 15 Sept. 1967, reported in
Finchley Press
, 22 Sept. 1967 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101584
).
111
.
Conservative Party Archive, CRD 3/8/8.
112
.
BBC Radio News, 21 Oct. 1969 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
113
.
Hansard, HC Deb 31 Oct. 1969 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101702
).
114
.
Conservative Party Archive, LCC 1/2/18.
115
.
Hansard, SC (A) 5 May 1970 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101744
).
116
.
Letter to Muriel, 3 Nov. 1969.
117
.
Letter to Muriel, 4 Dec. 1969.
118
.
THCR 4/4.
119
.
Interview with Carol Thatcher.
120
.
Daily Telegraph
, 11 Feb. 1970.
121
.
Interview with Muriel Cullen.
122
.
Ibid.
123
.
Ibid.
124
.
Edward Heath,
The Course of my Life
, Hodder & ºStoughton, 1998, p. 301.
125
.
Ibid., p. 302.
126
.
Conservative Party Archive, CRD 3/9/93.
127
.
Ibid.
128
.
See Campbell,
Margaret Thatcher
, vol. i, pp. 206–7.
129
.
General election address, 28 May 1970 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101754
).
130
.
Interview with John Izbicki.
131
.
See Carol Thatcher,
Below the Parapet
, p. 97.

1
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Letter to Muriel, 20 Aug. 1944.
2
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Letter to Muriel, 30 July 1944.
3
.
Ibid.
4
.
Letter to Muriel, 20 Aug. 1944.
5
.
Letter to Muriel, Sept. 1944 (undated).
6
.
Ibid.
7
.
Maggie: The First Lady
(Brook Lapping productions for ITV and PBS, 2003).
8
.
Interview with Carol Thatcher.
9
.
Interview with Michael James.
10
.
Ibid.
11
.
Papers relating to the compilation of Lady Thatcher’s memoirs, The Thatcher Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge, THCR 4/4.
12
.
Interview with Nicholas Stuart.
13
.
Margaret Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, HarperCollins, 1995, p. 5.
14
.
Cabinet Secretary’s notebooks, 23 June 1970.
15
.
Interview with John Hedger.
16
.
THCR 4/4.
17
.
Daily Telegraph
, 22 June 1970 (Christopher Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements of Margaret Thatcher 1945–90 on CD-ROM
, Oxford University Press, 1998/2000).
18
.
Times
, 11 Nov. 1970 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101813
).
19
.
See
Woman’s Hour
(BBC Radio 2), 23 July 1970 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
) and
Sunday Times
, 15 Nov. 1970 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101814
).
20
.
Hansard, HC Deb 19 Oct. 1972 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102224
).
21
.
THCR 4/4.
22
.
Interview with Max Morris.
23
.
Finchley Press
, 25 June 1971 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102126
).
24
.
Interview with Nicholas Stuart.
25
.
Ibid.
26
.
Times Educational Supplement
, 2 July 1971.
27
.
Thatcher,
The Path to Power
, p. 166.
28
.
Interview with John Hedger.
29
.
Private information.
30
.
THCR 4/4.
31
.
Interview with Lord Belstead.
32
.
Interview with Nicholas Stuart.
33
.
Interviews with John Banks, John Hedger and Anthony Chamier.
34
.
Private information.
35
.
Interview with Anthony Chamier.
36
.
Interview with Carol Thatcher.
37
.
Interview with John Banks.
38
.
Interview with John Hedger.
39
.
The National Archives (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO) ED 207/103, 24 June 1970.
40
.
THCR 4/4.
41
.
Interview with Nicholas Stuart.
42
.
Interview with Lord Belstead.
43
.
Peter Hennessy,
Whitehall
, Secker & Warburg, 1989, p. 626.
44
.
TNA: PRO T 227/3146.
45
.
Ibid., 11 Aug. 1970.
46
.
TNA: PRO T 227/3147, 1 Sept. 1970.
47
.
THCR 4/4.
48
.
Cabinet Secretary’s notebooks, 30 July 1970.
49
.
Guardian
, 28 Oct. 1970.
50
.
TNA: PRO ED 269/1, memo from J. A. Hudson to Sir William Pile, 7 Jan. 1971.
51
.
TNA: PRO ED 269/1, letter from Edward Short to Mrs Thatcher, 20 May 1971.
52
.
Hansard, HC Deb 14 June 1971 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102119
).
53
.
Sun
, 9 July 1971.
54
.
Observer
, 7 Feb. 1971 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
55
.
See
A Chance to Meet
(BBC1), 21 Mar. 1971 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
56
.
Interview with Anthony Chamier.
57
.
Sun
, 25 Nov. 1971.
58
.
Guardian
, 2 Nov. 1971.
59
.
Daily Mail
, 15 Dec. 1971.
60
.
See Carol Thatcher’s discussion of this in
Below the Parapet: The Biography of Denis Thatcher
, HarperCollins, 1996, p. 98.
61
.
Interview with Lady Thatcher.
62
.
TNA: PRO ED 269/13.
63
.
Interview with Anthony Chamier.
64
.
Interview with Sir Edward Heath.
65
.
TNA: PRO PREM 15/1482, 13 Jan. 1972.
66
.
Interview with Lord Belstead.
67
.
Sunday Express
, 16 Jan. 1972 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
68
.
Daily Mail
, 8 Feb. 1972 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
69
.
Liverpool Daily Post
, 21 Feb. 1972 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102180
).
70
.
Interview with Nicholas Stuart.
71
.
Interview with Max Morris.
72
.
Interview with Michael James.
73
.
Cabinet Secretary’s notebooks, 30 Nov. 1972.
74
.
Interview with Michael James.
75
.
Interview with Lord Belstead.
76
.
Illustrated London News
, Nov. 1973 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).
77
.
Interview with Eric Bolton.
78
.
Daily Mail
, 9 June 1972.
79
.
Sunday Times
, 8 Apr. 1973 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101823
).
80
.
Interview with Anthony Chamier.
81
.
See
Evening Standard
, 17 Nov. 1973 (Collins, ed.,
Complete Public Statements
).