By Jonathan Colman
Drawing upon an in depth diversity of assets from either side of the Atlantic, this ebook presents the 1st full-length research of the debatable courting among Harold Wilson and Lyndon B. Johnson. whereas Wilson used to be an organization supporter of the assumption of a "special dating" among Britain and the USA and desired to use his dealings with the White apartment to bolster his credentials as an international statesman, Johnson held the British chief in low esteem and disdained the assumption of a "special" Anglo-American courting. problems stemming from the Vietnam warfare, British monetary weak point and the UK's abrogation of its global strength prestige exacerbated the tension among Wilson and Johnson, resulting in what was once essentially the most afflicted of all of the relationships among British best ministers and American presidents.
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Knowing how to please the Americans, Wilson indicated that ‘the most important role for Britain for the future would be in the defence of Western interests East of Suez’. 16 His aims for the meeting were grandiose. He sought to make a plea for US–UK unity which would, he hoped, create an impact like that produced by Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech at Fulton, Missouri, in 1946. Burke Trend, Secretary to the Cabinet, for example, suggested to the Prime Minister on 2 December that: the overriding purpose of your visit … is to secure a broad meeting of minds between yourself and the President on what the world is going to look like from 1965 onwards and what the United States and United Kingdom jointly should do about it.
P. 30. 23 Lyndon B. Johnson, The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963–1969 (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971), p. 316. 24 PRO, PREM 13/261, Wilson–Cromer conversation, 18 November 1964; see also Kenneth O. Morgan, Callaghan: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 215–16. , 24 October 1964. 26 Johnson to Wilson, 24 October 1964, FRUS 1964–1968 , vol. VIII, p. 29. , pp. 31–2. 28 Bodleian Library, Lord George–Brown Papers, Ms. Eng. C. 5009, ‘Enquiry into the Position of Sterling, 1964–1965’, 1 June 1966.
Wilson is likely to make a small scale adaptation of it for his own use’. Wilson would have, in the figures of Patrick Gordon Walker (Foreign Secretary), James Callaghan (Chancellor of the Exchequer), and Denis Healey (Minister of Defence), ‘appointees on whose judgment in affairs vital to their own departments and to the national security, he will not completely rely’. Washington should prepare itself ‘for a greater degree of highlevel negotiation with the British than has been our previous experience’.