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Newspaper Article
Sir Ronald Millar
1998
Overview
Sir [Ronald Millar], playwright and speech writer; born November 12, 1919, died April 16, 1998 Sir Ronald Millar, who came up with Mrs [Margaret Thatcher]'s famous line \"The lady's not for turning,\" was a playwright and screenwriter who came into political speech-writing more or less by accident. A recording of the broadcast was played to Mrs Thatcher after she became party leader and, without knowing that it originally had displaced a broadcast of her own, she liked it enough to want to use the Millar talents. The first speech he wrote for her contained the Abraham Lincoln quote \"you cannot help the poor by destroying the rich\", and when he handed it to her she opened her handbag and showed him that she always carried the quote around with her. From that moment they worked together, though Millar was said to take no money either from Thatcher or the party, and he admitted to finding it \"a lot easier to write for her when we were in opposition and there was no Civil Service machine to worry about\".
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Gannett Media Corp
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