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Isolated by much of the world for its conduct of the war in
Vietnam, the United States saw British support as a key component
of its efforts to sway public opinion. This is the first serious
examination of the impact of the Vietnam War on the Anglo-American
"special relationship" during the years of the Johnson presidency.
Using recently released government papers, oral interviews, and
transcripts of presidential phone conversations, Ellis discusses
the discord between the United Kingdom and the United States over
the war in Southeast Asia. She focuses on the pressures placed on
Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor Government to provide material
aid to the war and to remain squarely behind the U.S. war effort in
public. Britain's refusal to send troops to Vietnam and Wilson's
insistence on trying to mediate the conflict were both sources of
tension between the allies. This study explores the extent to which
the United Kingdom was pressured to send troops to the combat zone,
the part that the personal relationship between Wilson and Johnson
played in the tensions, and the evidence that a deal was done to
link the maintenance of British defenses East of Suez with U.S.
support for the pound sterling. It concludes that Wilson managed to
walk a political tightrope on Vietnam, providing just enough
diplomatic support for the Americans to keep Washington satisfied
and putting just enough limits on that support to keep an
increasingly vociferous domestic anti-war movement at bay.
What do we remember about US Presidents, and how do we come to
commemorate their legacies? Few personalities loom larger than the
President of the United States. Their accomplishments and failures
are forensically documented, and their personal lives are under
constant scrutiny from the media. But how does a president's legacy
emerge, and how to do we come to commemorate it? In Constructing
Presidential Legacy, world-leading experts take a
multi-disciplinary approach to explore how presidents are
remembered. They look at multiple presidents, including Washington,
Jefferson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson,
Eisenhower, Reagan, Obama and Trump. Discover how presidential
legacies are constructed during and after a President's time in the
Whitehouse, and how they are portrayed in media such as film,
museums, public art, political invocations, pop culture, literature
and evolving technological advancements.
What do we remember about US Presidents, and how do we come to
commemorate their legacies? Few personalities loom larger than the
President of the United States. Their accomplishments and failures
are forensically documented, and their personal lives are under
constant scrutiny from the media. But how does a president's legacy
emerge, and how to do we come to commemorate it? In Constructing
Presidential Legacy, world-leading experts take a
multi-disciplinary approach to explore how presidents are
remembered. They look at multiple presidents, including Washington,
Jefferson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson,
Eisenhower, Reagan, Obama and Trump. Discover how presidential
legacies are constructed during and after a President's time in the
Whitehouse, and how they are portrayed in media such as film,
museums, public art, political invocations, pop culture, literature
and evolving technological advancements.
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