By TIME Staff
The former U.S. President, making amends to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for the American invasion of Grenada, a Commonwealth state, in a 1983 recording recently made public for the first time along with a trove of other White House tapes. Reagan refers to an old practice of throwing one’s hat through a door before entering a room; if the guest was unwelcome, it would be thrown back out.
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