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On February 6, 1994 the Republican National Committee held a lavish gala dinner to celebrate the eighty-third birthday of Ronald Reagan. It was a warm, cheerful evening of bonhomie and backslapping, and the guests applauded vigorously at the effusive tribute of Reagan’s guest of honor:
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Hugo Young, One of Us: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher (London: Macmillan, 1989), 250.
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Sandbrook, D. (2008). The Baptist and the Messiah: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. In: Hudson, C., Davies, G. (eds) Ronald Reagan and the 1980s. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230616196_11
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