Rudy’s voyage to England was an eventful (and fruitful) one. In addition to meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown (with an accompanying press conference outside of 10 Downing St.), Hizzoner announced that several advisors of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have joined his team:
The Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee announced today that former advisors to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Robert Conquest and Dr. Nile Gardiner are supporting Mayor Giuliani for President. Conquest will serve as a member of the Senior Foreign Policy Advisory Board and Gardiner, the Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, will serve as a member of the European Advisory Board. They join the campaign’s foreign policy team as the Mayor meets with former Prime Minister Thatcher, as well as former Prime Minister Tony Blair and current Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in London , England , where he will deliver the inaugural Margaret Thatcher Atlantic Bridge lecture.
“I support Mr. Giuliani because I see his approach to our international challenges as serious, careful and responsible,” said Conquest.
“Mayor Giuliani is a proven leader with a clear vision for keeping America safe and offers the kind of strong leadership that the United States needs to win the Terrorists’ War on Us,” said Gardiner. “In my time working with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, I observed how her strong principles governed her decision making. Rudy Giuliani is a leader in her mold.”
The other new addition to the Mayor’s foreign policy team is National Review Senior Editor David Pryce-Jones, who joins as a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor.
“Mayor Giuliani is someone who sets an example of leadership which I find impressive. He clearly understands the dangers we are facing today,” said Pryce-Jones.
Mayor Giuliani’s foreign policy team advises the Mayor on a foreign policy vision that advances the United States as a world leader: expanding America ‘s involvement in the global economy, strengthening our reputation around the world, and keeping our country on offense in the Terrorists’ War on Us.
Here’s more on the newest additions:
Robert Conquest, Senior Foreign Policy Advisory Board Member
Conquest, the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, is a dual national by birth and renowned historian of Russia . He has served with military and diplomatic missions in Russian-occupied Eastern Europe and the United Nations. He advised former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who wrote, “When the history of the West’s victory in the Cold War comes to be written a special place will go to Robert Conquest.” Conquest is a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. His account of the Stalin years, The Great Terror, is soon to be published in an updated 3rd edition.
Nile Gardiner, Ph.D., European Advisory Board Member
Gardiner serves as the Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation. Prior to joining the Heritage Foundation, Gardiner was Foreign Policy Researcher for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Gardiner specializes in Anglo-U.S. relationship, the United Nations, post-war Iraq , and the role of Great Britain and Europe in the U.S.-led alliance against international terrorism and ‘rogue states’ including Iran . He is a leading authority on transatlantic relations.
Gardiner is a sought-after advisor from issues such as the role of international allies in post-war Iraq to U.S.-British leadership in the war on terror, has testified several times before Congress and has made over 400 television appearances discussing foreign policy issues and written for leading publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The London Daily Telegraph and National Review. Gardiner served as an expert on the 2005 Gingrich-Mitchell Congressional Task Force on the United Nations.
Gardiner assisted Lady Thatcher with her latest book, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World. He served as an aide to Lady Thatcher from 2000 to 2002 and advised her on a number of international policy issues.
Gardiner received his Ph.D. in History from Yale University , where he was awarded the International Security Studies Smith Richardson Foundation Fellowship and the David Gimbel Fellowship. He holds two Masters degrees from Yale and a BA and MA in Modern History from Oxford University . He has a broad range of international experience, and has lived in four continents: Europe, Africa, Asia and North America.
David Pryce-Jones, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor
Pryce-Jones studied at Magdalen College , Oxford . He is the author of ten novels and eleven non-fiction books, including The Closed Circle, a social and political interpretation of Arab society, and The Strange Death of the Soviet Union. Earlier this year, he published Betrayal: France, the Arabs and the Jews. Since 1999, he has been a Senior Editor of National Review in New York . Pryce-Jones’ essays and articles have also appeared in Commentary, New Criterion, The Wall Street Journal, The Spectator and Sunday Telegraph among numerous other publications.
Here is an MSNBC recap of Hizzoner’s visit:
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September 19th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Did he already win the nomination and we all missed it? Sounds like he’s getting ready nationally for the Generals.
September 19th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
That’s why he’s the frontrunner…
September 19th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
I believe that in the very near future, old notions about nationalism and national “borders” will likely change and fall away. That is why new understandings of internationalism and a borderless world are vital to our future including plans to transform the Middle East into a Democratic region. I think that it is a very classy and thoughtful exercise this election cycle that our candidates should travel to Britain for a blessing from Lady Thatcher. These transatlantic relationships and new internationalism will be critical to the Global War on Terror and I applaud Mayor Giuliani’s respect for the past and vision for the future.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
A nod from the Iron Lady. She probably believes Giulani won’t go wobbly on terrorism.
September 19th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Is Prince Charles on board?
September 19th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
His visit is making news even over here in Australia. It was a good move and does indeed paint him as the frontrunner.
I absolutely agree with him— any willing nation with a good democratic standard should be apart of NATO.
September 19th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
So, where does England fall on the primary calendar? Given the number of irrelevant polls we’ve had to wade through, I’m surprised we haven’t seen any for the Brits.
September 19th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
JA Pruce, let’s say we agree to disagree. Nowhere in our US Constitution says we are responsible for the world. Before you shout isoluationalist, it is for a fact that during the days of Federal Government being isolated from the world (George Washington until approximately FDR’s time), private American citizens were all over the world bringing to the countries their goodwill, be it educational, government support, economic, blah. I think it is great if we could privately fund people to go around helping other countries, but our government should not be the one doing it!
September 19th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
SGS,
I’m assuming from your statement that you are a Ron Paul supporter (but I do not know this for a fact). And yes, I guess we can agree to disagree, but I believe that it should be our mission as a Republic to spread freedom and democracy around the world. On strategic, military, and humanitarian grounds it is all smart policy. I just don’t think that there is much support for an isolationist, retreat, defeatist or cut and run foreign policy in the GOP. We have an enormous opportunity to change the culture of the Middle East and to complete our mission in Iraq.
September 20th, 2007 at 10:04 am
I’m not a Giuliani fan, he is one of my least favorite candidates. HOWEVER, his visit did paint him as presidential. It also annoyed me, having Brits tell us who we should vote for, and it seemed quite presumptuous on his part. My guess is some people will love it, and some people will resent it. I take turns with both views.
September 20th, 2007 at 11:31 am
I may be aligned most closely with the ideology that Ron reflects, but no, I am not for him. I am for Mitt, actually, since I believe he is in the best position to clean up our government. I believe we need a step-stone before we go to the extreme that Ron is. And yes, on the humanitarian, strategic and militarial ground, as I said, there are two ways to do it, either through our government or through our private citizens. However, you want to wreatle with it, our constitution does not permit our government to do it, and for the first 150 or so years, the citizens had done it effectively with high rate of successes in many part of the world. We may want to reconsider this line of thought. And besides, our government has so far made more mistakes than how it has helped the world (the only exception, I admit, may be Japan, but they had a lot of US citizens working with Japanese government, so there may be something there). And I agree with you that there is not sufficient support in GOP for this kind of reduction, among others, of our government, which is why I am in favor of the step-stone approaches, like, when we trim the tax, we saw the immediate tenfold return. Again, it is not an isolationism to work through our private citizens, not when we glace at the history of our country, when we compare the first 150 years with the last 80 years.