The Prime Minister Disappears

Harold Holt was fated. History will remember him for his dramatic and mysterious death off Cheviot Beach on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne, on Sunday, 17 December 1967. He had become Australia’s seventeenth Prime Minister less than two years earlier, in January 1966. Apart from...

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Published inInside the Canberra Press Gallery p. 133
Main Author Chalmers, Rob
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Australia ANU E Press 31.10.2011
ANU Press
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Earth sciences
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Geography
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Government
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Heads of state
Human behavior
Human populations
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Parliamentary system
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Physical sciences
Political communication
Political meetings
Political science
Political sociology
Political speeches
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Population studies
Prime ministers
Social behavior
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Social sciences
Suicide
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United States Congress
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Summary:Harold Holt was fated. History will remember him for his dramatic and mysterious death off Cheviot Beach on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne, on Sunday, 17 December 1967. He had become Australia’s seventeenth Prime Minister less than two years earlier, in January 1966. Apart from his dramatic death, he will be remembered unkindly for his statement at the White House, when he was visiting US President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, declaring Australia would be ‘all the way with LBJ’ in the Vietnam War. This is unfair. ‘All the way with LBJ’ had been Johnson’s Senate election campaign slogan. Holt was
ISBN:9781921862366
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