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PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
[DRAFT]
25-30 SEPTEMBER 1983
GENERAL BRIEF: UNITED STATES.
Brief by Foreign & Commonwealth Office
INTRODUCTION
1. The Prime Minister will spend a day and a half in
Washington. She is due to arrive on the afternoon of 28
September and will attend a dinner at the Ambassador's
Residence that evening for leading US bankers,
businessmen and some Congressional figures. On 29
September she will have a breakfast meeting with members
of the Senate followed by calls on Mr Volcker, Chairman
of the Federal Reserve and Mr Regan, Secretary to the
Treasury. Her main engagement of the day will be a têtê
à têtê session of about one hour with President Reagan.
starting at 11.30 and continuing with a working lunch
which other senior members of the US Administration and
Sir G Howe will attend. In the afternoon, Mrs Thatcher
will call on the Vice-President and in the evening
receive the Churchill Foundation Award at a dinner at the
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