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Thatcher Meets Reagan (1981) w/ Dan Snow

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Reagan and Thatcher's Role in Britain's Public Imagination

In terms of their respective roles in the sort of public imagination within their, within the respective countries, I mean, you know, Reagan, this is incredibly simplistic, right? But we have mourning in America as the sort of Reagan watchword, let's turn a page, let's become hopeful again. In the UK, you get this very real sense that 1970s, you know,. mark the 56 and 70s marks that retreat from global hegemony from from empires disaster. This is the narrative, I think that you're right, that they both were keen to push at the time and subsequent.

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