Reagan and Thatcher believed in the power of the market and held that even well-intentioned government intervention was misguided.
Like Reagan, Thatcher was one of those rare individuals who were both a movement leader and an effective political leader.
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Like Reagan, Thatcher was one of those rare individuals who was both a movement leader and an effective political leader.
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But Obama's policies and politics are too left-leaning for Obama to be seriously considered a Tory, says Richard Aldous, author of Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship.
"It was closer ideologically and warmer personally than any relationship between any other British prime minister and any other American president, " Smith said of Reagan and Thatcher's friendship.
That point was reached in the U.S. and the U.K. in the early 1980s, when Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher sharply cut marginal tax rates.
Support for the supply-side revolutions of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher is thinning--and not just on the left, where it existed for, oh, about six months during the late 1990s when hippie geeks learned they could get rich.
What no one dares stop calling the Special Relationship has been defined down the years by images - Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher dancing, George W Bush joking about sharing Colgate with a grinning Tony Blair squeezed into crotch hugging chinos and years later spinning a be-suited and grim-faced Gordon Brown around in a golf buggy.
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On the day of Reagan's funeral, Thatcher sat behind the former president's son, Ronald Prescott Reagan, looking sadly on as he comforted his mother, Nancy.
Reaction to the economic crisis of the 1970s ushered in the Thatcher and Reagan reforms.
Reagan struggled to convince Thatcher to agree to allow the 1986 U.S. raid on Libya to be launched from British bases.
Thatcher and Reagan were determined not to let that opportunity pass by.
Thatcher and Reagan met years before either came to power, Smith said.
The Thatcher and Reagan administrations also abolished capital controls which had been put in place at a time of fixed exchange rates.
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But of course being linked to either Thatcher or Reagan means being linked to pretty much every world leader of the 80s and or 90s.
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Thatcher and Reagan were mocked as lightweights before they assumed office.
Mrs (now Lady) Thatcher and Reagan slashed top rates and eliminated many deductions, creating tax codes with lower marginal rates on a much broader tax base.
And then of course we saw that principle again put into practice by President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher on their respective sides of the Atlantic in the 1980s.
Thatcher to Reagan is obvious.
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The left in America has largely thrown in the towel on Ronald Reagan, but in Britain Thatcher-hatred remains fresh.
In politics, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were both engaged in similar projects to shrink the size of the state.
He was a champion of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and the Atlanticist cause long after it had gone out of fashion.
Pinter, who celebrated his 75th birthday this week, was a vocal critic of the policies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
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Prince Charles and Princess Diana, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan all improved their moral standing by appearing in public beside her.
Growing up, I had the same impressions of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and others.
The most successful of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic--think President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher--were known to be very kind to their subordinates.
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan had smashed the post-war consensus.
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan counted themselves as inspired visitors.
Europe has been in a long process of tax reform since the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan led the way with sweeping changes to their tax codes.
It is no coincidence that the last time Britain and America seemed to be particularly in tune was during the years when Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were in power.
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