JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU COULDN'T BE ANY MORE ENAMORED:

Whisky made "Iron Lady" of Thatcher (Paul Majendie, Mar 5, 2003, Reuters)

Margaret Thatcher stiffened her legendary resolve with all-night drinking sessions, her personal assistant reveals in a new television documentary. [...]

The favourite "tincture" of her avuncular husband Denis was gin and tonic. That was not enough for Maggie, once described by Ronald Reagan as the best man in England.

When Thatcher went to war against Argentina to reclaim the Falkland Islands, her personal assistant Cynthia Crawford recalled: "She'd say 'You can't drink gin and tonic in the middle of the night dear, you must have a whisky and soda because it will give you energy.'" [...]

Jane Bonham Carter, producer of the four-part documentary being aired from Thursday in Britain on ITV1, called Thatcher "arguably the most significant English woman since Queen Elizabeth I."

Arguably? Posted by Orrin Judd at March 14, 2003 2:17 PM