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撒切尔夫人1979年在美国白宫的演讲 本文简介：SpeechatWhiteHouseDinnerMargaretThatcherEastRoom,theWhiteHouse17Dec1979Mr.President,Mrs.Carter,ladiesandgentlemen,ithasbeenmyfirstvisittoWashingtonash
撒切尔夫人1979年在美国白宫的演讲 本文内容：
Speech
at
White
House
Dinner
Margaret
Thatcher
East
Room,the
White
House
17
Dec
1979
Mr.
President,Mrs.
Carter,ladies
and
gentlemen,it
has
been
my
first
visit
to
Washington
as
head
of
the
British
government,and
I
should
like,at
the
end
of
a
memorable
day,to
say
thank
you.
Thank
you,to
you,Mr.
President,to
you,Mrs.
Carter,and
through
you
to
the
American
people
for
the
wonderfully
warm
welcome
I
have
been
given
everywhere.
I
know,Mr.
President,that
as
you
pointed
out
at
the
beginning
of
your
speech,the
relationship
between
America
and
Britain
started
off
with
one
or
two
errors
of
judgment
on
our
side.
(Laughter.)
Looking
around
me
at
the
beauty
here
and
at
the
wonderful
nation
you
have
created
I
am
really
rather
glad
that
my
predecessors
weren’t
successful
in
all
things
they
tried
to
carry
out.
Now,I
know
that
official
visits
to
Washington
recur
almost
with
the
regularity
of
the
passing
seasons,but
as
far
as
I
am
concerned,this
really
has
been
an
exceptional
event
in
the
year
for
me.
Alas,I
will
not
be
staying
long,but
it
makes
a
great
difference
to
me
to
have
this
chance
of
direct
discussion
and
to
sense
at
first
hand
what
it
is
that
quickens
the
pulse
of
the
American
people,their
yearnings
and
preoccupations.
I
am
very
much
aware,Mr.
President,of
the
ordeal
that
the
United
States
is
going
through
at
the
moment.
It
is
a
double
ordeal,for
the
fate
of
the
50
hostages
in
Tehran,from
whom
our
thoughts
are
never
far,and
for
the
temper
of
the
United
States
as
a
whole.
You
will
not
want
me
to
speak
at
length
about
this
now,but
I
would
be
giving
you
a
false
impression
if
I
allowed
the
evening
to
proceed
any
further
without
letting
you
know
how
much
we,in
Britain,support
you
in
your
ordeal
at
this
time.
The
United
States
is
our
friend,our
ally,and
our
time-honored
partner
in
peace
and
war.
The
history
and
the
destiny
of
our
countries
have
been
and
always
will
be
inextricably
intertwined.
Our
friendship
goes
back
a
very
long
way.
We
are,after
all,among
the
very
few
countries
in
the
world
whose
constitutions
and
national
identities
have
remained
intact
over
two
centuries.
I
hope
you
won’t
mind,Mr.
President,my
recalling
that
George
Washington
was
a
British
subject
until
well
after
his
40th
birthday.
(Laughter.)
I
have
been
told,to
my
surprise,that
he
does
not
have
a
place
in
the
British
Dictionary
of
National
Biography.
I
suppose
the
editors
must
have
regarded
him
as
a
late
developer.
(Laughter.)
I
confess
to
you
that
in
some
ways
my
visit
got
off
to
a
rather
shaky
start,because
I
was
told
on
arrival
at
Andrews
Field
that
I
had
interrupted
your
Secretary
of
State,Mr.
Vance,in
one
of
his
few
moments
of
relaxation.
He
was
watching
the
Redskins
playing
the
Cowboys.
(Laughter.)
He
had
to
take
his
eye
off
the
game
to
greet
me.
(Laughter.)
I
am
very
grateful
but
I
don’t
think
the
Redskins
can
have
been
very
grateful
to
me
because
it
was
no
doubt
as
a
result
of
this
diversion
of
Mr.
Vance’s
attention
that
the
Redskins
lost
the
game.
(Laughter.)
I
do
apologize
for
having
intervened
in
your
internal
affairs.
(Laughter.)
Mr.
Vance’s
opposite
number,Lord
Carrington,who
is
with
us
this
evening,has,as
you
know,and
as
you
have
very
kindly
said,Mr.
President,had
something
of
a
triumph
in
the
Rhodesia
negotiations
at
Lancaster
House
in
London.
If
you
think
he
looks
a
little
pale,it
is
because
he
has
been
shut
up
in
Lancaster
House
for
many
months,indeed
has
become
known
as
the
prisoner
of
Lancaster
House
and
he
is
so
pleased
to
be
free
at
last.
Lord
Carrington
would,I
know,want
me
to
repeat
this
evening
how
grateful
the
British
government
are
to
the
United
States
authorities
for
the
stalwart
support
they
have
given
us
unfailingly
over
Rhodesia,and
you,Mr.
President,and
you,Mr.
Vance,we
would
like
to
give
our
warmest
and
most
heartfelt
thanks,because
without
your
support
the
whole
process
would
have
been
incomparably
more
difficult
and
we
may
never
have
reached
success.
May
I
say
one
more
thing,Mr.
President.
The
government
which
I
lead
has
been
in
power
now
for
just
over
half
a
year.
We
face
great
difficulties,some
of
them
deep
seated
and
longstanding
and
some
stemming
from
beyond
our
shores,and
I
don’t
pretend
that
anything
is
going
to
be
remedied
immediately,but
we
are
determined
upon
a
change.
We
are
determined
to
return
to
the
first
principles
which
have
traditionally
governed
our
political
and
economic
life,namely,the
overall
responsibility
of
the
individual
rather
than
the
state
for
his
own
welfare,and
the
paramountcy
of
Parliament
for
the
protection
of
fundamental
rights.
The
government
I
lead
has
a
resounding
mandate
to
restore
the
face
and
the
fortunes
of
the
nation.
We
shall
stick
at
the
task
whatever
the
difficulties
and
however
great
the
endurance
required,and
we
shall
do
so,Mr.
President,in
the
conviction
that
our
allies
across
the
Atlantic
have
confidence
in
us,just
as
we
have
confidence
in
the
strength
and
ingenuity
of
the
United
States
to
meet
any
challenge
and
triumph
over
any
adversity
that
confronts
them.
And
it
is
in
that
spirit
that
I
would
like
to
ask
all
your
other
guests
this
evening
to
drink
a
toast
to
you,the
President
of
the
United
States
of
America.
To
the
President.