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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (681594)	5/5/2005 2:12:36 PM
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Thatcher Endorses Bolton for U.N. Envoy Thursday May 5, 2005 6:16 PM WASHINGTON (AP) - Margaret Thatcher, who gained a reputation for outspokenness as Britain's prime minister, endorsed John R. Bolton for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations largely for his ``capacity for straight talking rather than peddling half-truths.'' In a letter made available Thursday by Bolton's office, Thatcher said she wrote to tell her longtime friend ``how strongly I support your nomination.'' ``To combine, as you do, clarity of thought, courtesy of expression and an unshakable commitment to justice is rare in any walk of life. But it is particularly so in international affairs,'' Thatcher wrote in her letter dated Wednesday. ``A capacity for straight talking rather than peddling half-truths is a strength and not a disadvantage in diplomacy. Particularly in the case of a great power like America, it is essential that people know where you stand and assume that you mean what you say.'' Opposition to Bolton's abrupt manner - bluntness, President Bush called it - is one reason his nomination has run into trouble. Last month, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee postponed until next Thursday its vote to send Bolton's name to the full Senate for confirmation. Lady Thatcher signed the letter, written on her House of Lords stationery: ``Yours ever, Margaret'' Thatcher led Britain's Conservatives to three election victories from 1979 to 1990, her conservative policies meshing well with those of her great friend, 1980s U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Thatcher lost the party leadership, and the prime minister's job, in a feud over European policy and public ire over a poll tax she had pushed through.