April 9, 1982 (10:00 EST) – Talks with Thatcher on Falklands
White House, Top Secret Situation Room immediate cable
As part of Secretary Haig's diplomatic team, National Security Council staffer Jim Rentschler informs Deputy National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane:
"I assume that you and the Judge [National Security Advisor William P. Clark] will have seen the Secretary's unvarnished report to the President on his protracted discussions with Mrs. Thatcher … You should know that his views very accurately summarize the mood and mind-set of HMG [Her Majesty's Government] at this critical point in the South Atlantic caper and delineate our rather limited room for maneuver … However the situation turns out, it will clearly be a 'close run thing' – In fact Mrs. Thatcher herself may have recognized when she pointedly showed us portraits in Number 10 not only of Nelson but also Wellington."
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