A 'special relationship'? : Harold Wilson, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Anglo-American relations 'at the summit', 1964-68 /

Colman, Jonathan,

A 'special relationship'? : Harold Wilson, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Anglo-American relations 'at the summit', 1964-68 / Harold Wilson, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Anglo-American relations 'at the summit', 1964-68 Jonathan Colman. - 1 online resource (192 pages) : file(s). - Manchester International Relations .

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [182]-187) and index.

Introduction -- 1. The approach to the summit -- 2. The Washington summit, 7-9 December 1964 -- 3. From discord to cordiality, January-April 1965 -- 4. 'A battalion would be worth a billion'? May-December 1965 -- 5. Dissociation, January-July 1966 -- 6. A declining relationship, August 1966-September 1967 -- 7. One ally among many, October 1967-December 1968 -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Open Access

This is the first full-length study of the fraught and controversial personal relationship between Prime Minister Harold Wilson and President Lyndon B Johnson, placed in the context of such issues as the Vietnam War, British economic weakness and the UK's dissociation from American measures in Vietnam.


English.

1526137208 9781847791078 1847791077 9781280719622 1280719621 9786610719624 6610719624 9781526137203

10.7765/9781526137203 doi



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Uk


Wilson, Harold, 1916-1995.
Johnson, Lyndon B. 1908-1973.
Johnson, Lyndon B. 1908-1973.
Wilson, Harold, 1916-1995.


1963-1979


Summit meetings.
Diplomatic relations.
Summit meetings.


United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--1964-1979.
United States--Foreign relations--1963-1969.
Great Britain.
United States.

--Electronic books.
Electronic books.

E183.8.G7 / C74 2004

327.41073/09046 327.4107309046