In 2006 , Thatcher attended the official Washington , D.C. memorial service to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the 11 September attacks on the US . She was a guest of Vice President Dick Cheney , and met Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit . In February 2007 Thatcher became the first living British prime minister to be honoured with a statue in the Houses of Parliament . The bronze statue stands opposite that of her political hero , Sir Winston Churchill , and was unveiled on 21 February 2007 with Thatcher in attendance ; she remarked in the Members ' Lobby of the Commons : " I might have preferred iron – but bronze will do ... It wo n't rust . " Thatcher was a public supporter of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism and the resulting Prague Process , and sent a public letter of support to its preceding conference
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Margaret Thatcher