Previous recipients were former British Prime Minister Lady Margaret Thatcher and one of the United States' preeminent strategists, Professor Albert Wohlstetter.
Prime Minister David Cameron is leading tributes to Lady Thatcher in the House of Commons, with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband among those who will also speak.
President Obama and the First Lady will welcome Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and his wife, Samantha Cameron, to the White House for an Official Visit with a State Dinner on March 13-14, 2012.
Lady Thatcher resigned as prime minister in 1990 and had been in poor health for several years prior to her death.
Prime Minister David Cameron has described Lady Thatcher as a "great Briton" and international leaders, including US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have praised her global role.
Just after confirming her decision to resign in 1990, Lady Thatcher faced her last Prime Minister's questions in the House of Commons.
But the following month Lady Thatcher stood down as prime minister after failing to win outright victory in a leadership battle with Michael Heseltine.
Among dignitaries due to attend the show, which is scheduled to start at 9 p.m. local time, are U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron.
Lady Thatcher had said whoever was prime minister at the time of her funeral should take part in the ceremony.
Lady Thatcher, who was Conservative Prime Minister from 1979 until 1990, died on 8 April, following a stroke, at the age of 87.
The Sun pays tribute to "the lion lady", in reference to Prime Minster David Cameron's tribute to "a patriot prime minister" with "a lion-hearted love of this country".
BBC: Newspaper review: Margaret Thatcher's legacy considered
Lady Hillary sat with family and Prime Minister Helen Clark.
Not long after Lady Margaret Thatcher had resigned as the Prime Minister of England she was out on the talk circuit.
During Lady Thatcher's tenure as Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990 she oversaw the closure of dozens of coal mines - leading to thousands of job losses - and the year-long miners' strike.
The President and the First Lady will then take the official photo with Prime Minister Cameron and Mrs.
The private comment, made in a lift, was an apparent reference to the Conservative former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine, who challenged the leadership of Lady Thatcher, but never landed his party's leadership.
Many respondents were aware of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher and "her label as the 'Iron Lady', her personality and demeanour reinforcing a sense of the UK being a powerful country".
Bush and the first lady were greeted at Ben Gurion International Airport by Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, as well as most of Israel's Cabinet and religious leaders.
Lady Thatcher, Britain's first female premier, was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990 and won three successive general elections.
Lady Thatcher, a Conservative, was the UK's first female prime minister.
John Major, the first one, is now an ex-prime minister trying to settle scores from beyond the political grave by being rude about Lady Thatcher in his memoirs.
Thatcher, called the "Iron Lady" for her personal and political toughness and the only woman to become British prime minister, died Monday at 87.
应用推荐