Thatcher pleased with Presidential elections outcome
- Title
- Thatcher pleased with Presidential elections outcome
- Genre
- Press conference
- TX Date
- 9 Nov 1988
- Year of production
- 1988
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- Duration
- 00:02:52
- Description
- UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher give a press conference outside No. 10 on the win for George H. W. Bush in the US Presidential election. She hopes the special relationship between the UK and the US will continue and says she phoned Bush early this morning to congratulate him. She will meet Bush and Ronald Reagan during a visit to the USA next week. She reacts to defeat of the other candidate Michael Dukakis.
- Contributors
- Margaret Thatcher
- Keywords
- USA; Elections; Politics; International relations; Political leadership; Presidential candidates; Ronald Reagan; George H. W. Bush; Michael Dukakis
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LBC/IRN, "Thatcher pleased with Presidential elections outcome". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0010500273012 (Accessed 21 May 2025)