A study of the controversial relationship between Harold Wilson and Lyndon B Johnson. It argues that the tensions that arose during this period led to a serious weakening of the high-level ties between Britain and America in the years that followed.

This book provides the first full-length study of the controversial relationship between Harold Wilson and Lyndon B. Johnson. Whilst Wilson was a firm supporter of the idea of a 'special relationship' between Britain and the US and wanted to use his dealings with the White House to strengthen his credentials as a world statesman, Johnson held the British leader in low esteem and disdained the idea of a 'special' Anglo-American relationship. Difficulties stemming from the Vietnam War, British economic weakness and the UK's abrogation of its world power status exacerbated the strain between Wilson and Johnson, leading to what was probably the most troubled of all the relationships between British prime ministers and American presidents. Colman argues that the tensions that arose during this period led to a serious weakening of the high-level ties between Britain and America in the years that followed.

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
8. Conclusion
9. Bibliography