With American President Ronald Reagan, Thatcher recognized the potential for transformative change in the rise of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Like Reagan, Thatcher hated communism.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last of a trio of world leaders — including U.S. President Ronald Reagan and U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — who ended the Cold War and reshaped the globe ...

Thatcher's tenure as prime minister coincided with Reagan's time in the White House. The Ronald Reagan library identifies Thatcher as Reagan's most prolific correspondent among heads of state and ...

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former President Ronald Reagan were, in the words of one close aide, “political soulmates.” ...

Thatcher said she, Reagan, Gorbachev ‘got along,’ Sandra Goldberg recalls Palm Beacher recounts prime minister’s observation about cooperative Cold War leadership. Shannon Donnelly.

President Ronald Reagan with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva in 1985. Reagan believed that Gorbachev was a new type of Soviet leader dedicated to real reform. (Dennis Paquin/Reuters ...

Mr. Gorbachev was charming and presented himself as a reformer, but neither Ronald Reagan nor George Bush was convinced he was for real. They would both be proved wrong. By Peter Baker For his ...

Mr. Gorbachev was charming and presented himself as a modernizer, but neither Ronald Reagan nor George Bush was convinced he was for real. They would both be proved wrong. By Peter Baker ...

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former President Ronald Reagan were, in the words of one close aide, “political soulmates.” Reagan, who was elected a year after Thatcher ...