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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colman, Jonathan (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2018, 2004.
Series:Manchester International Relations
Subjects:
Wilson, Harold, > 1916-1995.
Johnson, Lyndon B. > (Lyndon Baines), > 1908-1973.
Johnson, Lyndon B. > (Lyndon Baines), > 1908-1973
Wilson, Harold, > 1916-1995
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.
Sommets (Conférences)
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Grande-Bretagne.
Grande-Bretagne > Relations extérieures > États-Unis.
Grande-Bretagne > Relations extérieures > 1964-1979.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > 1963-1969.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
Diplomatic relations
Summit meetings
Great Britain
United States
1963-1979
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.