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A champion of freedom, a pioneering leader,a woman of greatness, that's how some world leaders described Margret Thatcher.Former British Prime Minister died yesterday after she had a stroke.

We lost a great leader, a great primeminister, and a Great Britain. Margret Thatcher didn't just lead our country.She saved our country.

Thatcher served as Prime Minister from 1979to 1990. She was the first and is still the only woman to lead the Britishgovernment.

Was the most fascinating time of my life?And there were gripping years. We sorted out the economy. People came to have ahighest standard of living. A real enterprise economy. We then saw the end ofthe Cold War. There was fascinating event after event after event.

Thatcher was sometimes known as the IronLady because of her personal and political toughness. Her policies, especiallysome economic ones, earned her support and critism from British people.

One of her constant allies was the UnitedStates. Thatcher and American President, Ronald Reagon, worked together on manyglobal issues. That included the Cold War against the communist Soviet Unionwhich Thatcher helped end. Thacher had suffered from medical issues in recentyears. She was 87 years old.

President Obama visited Connecticutyesterday, went to talk about guns. Connecticut just passed new gun laws, somesort of the strictest gun laws in the United States. The U.S. Senate is set todebate the issue of guns. One part of the discussion is background checks forpeople who want to buy guns.

I'm hopeful that we can get something onbackground checks. 90% of Americans are for background checks.

I have to do with the reality as thegovernment of the State Texas. And universal background checks is not going tosave one life...

All right next up today. Never again is themotto of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Its goal is to honor the 6 million Jewishpeople and millions of others who were killed by Nazi Germany, and preventsomething like that from ever happening again.

It is Israel. You can see people whostopped their cars and paused for a moment as memorial siren sound yesterday.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was partof an annual ceremony, Yad Vashem. That's Israel's holocaust memorial center.

Families took part in ceremonies in theU.S. as well. One holocaust survivor talked about the Day's message for youngergenerations.

Teach them tolerance, accept people forwhat they are, not to hate, and to leave a better world to their children andtheir grandchildren than I in my generation leave to them.