Remembering Margaret Thatcher  Remembering Margaret Thatcher
Gingrich Productions April 10, 2013 Newt Gingrich  To receive
Newt’s weekly newsletter, click here.  Monday’s news that Lady
Thatcher had passed away brought both sadness and yet also happy
memories for Callista and me.  We had spent a long dinner in
London with Lady Thatcher and her husband Sir Dennis and two of
our closest friends, Gay and Stanley Gaines. It was memorable
because every contact with Lady Thatcher was memorable. I mean
that literally; I cannot remember an occasion over a 20 year
period where being with her failed to instruct, inspire and
educate.  Lady Thatcher was incredibly smart and she was
incredibly driven.  Her intelligence was apparent in her degree
from Oxford in chemistry (her senior year focused on X-ray
crystallography, maybe the only elected official to have done so
in any country). She went on to become a lawyer, and her career
was defined by hard work, applied intelligence, and enormous
courage.  (As an aside for Down