A 'special relationship'? : Harold Wilson, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Anglo-American relations 'at the summit', 1964-68 / Jonathan Colman.
Material type: TextSeries: Manchester International RelationsPublisher: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2018, 2004Distributor: New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (192 pages) : file(s)Content type:- text
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- Harold Wilson, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Anglo-American relations 'at the summit', 1964-68
- Wilson, Harold, 1916-1995
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
- 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
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
- Wilson, Harold, 1916-1995
- Diplomatic relations
- Summit meetings
- Great Britain
- United States
- 1963-1979
- 327.41073/09046
- 327.4107309046 22
- E183.8.G7 C74 2004
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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.
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.
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