The Last Time I Saw Maggie Thatcher

I got thrown out of the San Diego Convention Center

When I last saw the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, I got thrown out of San Diego’s Convention Center. It was 1998 and I was a freelancer covering an event called the “Insights World Conference.” The gathering was the clever invention of some Washington lobbyist. For $200 to $400 a ticket, software millionaires and…