Jackie and Robert Kennedy visit Harold Macmillan and wife at Birch Grove.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, US President: Fireside chat with Harold MacMillan, UK PM: '...our dedication to freedom...we will make sacrifices to do the things that need to be done...and that's what we are trying to teach ourselves...and hopefully, Mr. Khruschev'
Harold MACMILLAN, British PM: Speech to the nation on forming Government after Eden retires because of failing health '...we have a difficult task before us...'
Harold Macmillan, British PM: 'Wind of Change' speech in South Africa in 1960 - audio only overlaying still
Harold Macmillan, British PM: 'In forty years of political life I've tried to do my best...I will not make my life worthless by being untrue to those convictions'
Harold Macmillan, ex-British PM: Interview on his 70th birthday reflecting on the British people '...they're asked to do anything, they'll do it'
Harold Macmillan, now Lord Stosckton: On Margaret Thatcher's Privatisation policies: '...first the Georgian silver goes...then the Canalettos go...'
EX UK prime minister Harold MacMillan interviewed for 70th Birthday
England: 'Night of the Long Knives': Harold Macmillan has
sacked seven members of his cabinet including Chancellor of the
Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd:
Sussex: Mill House, Fittleworth: Selwyn Lloyd walks in garden with
friends: MS Selwyn Lloyd.
London: Harold Macmillan out of building with Sarduana of
Sokoto: shakes hands and sees him off.
Bermuda: Nassau: President Kennedy arrives for talks with Harold Macmillan during which a deal on Polaris was reached.
President Kennedy down plane steps greeted by Governer of Bermuda
and Harold Macmillan: Kennedy inspects Guard of Honour: Macmillan
speech of welcome: Kennedy speech looking forward to meeting:
thinks they are better in warm climate.
Bermuda: Nassau: at a barbecue after 2nd day of talks: President Kennedy out of car and greeted by Harold Macmillan:
Jazz band play 'Mac the Knife': cutaway to Macmillan and party
including Lord Home: calypso sings song of welcome including words
skybolt, nuclear weapons and the Common Market.
London: No 11 Downing St : Harold Macmillan speech to nation:
he succeeds Eden as prime minister and pays tribute to him in his
speech,then talks about the task ahead.
London: Dorchester Hotel: UNA lunch in honour of Dag
Hammarskjold: Harold Macmillan gives welcoming speech and
is interrupted by Empire Loyalist: Macmillan continues about
"freedom of right to express oneself": laughter,applause:
Dag Hammarskjold says its the first official visit by the UN
General Sec, but also first time one has been invited: laughter.
Paris: De Gaulle and Harold Macmillan out of building:
Selwyn Lloyd joins them and group pose.
London: Royal Albert Hall: John Diefenbaker PM of Canada
speech to Anglo Canadian rally: says communists have changed
direction not destination: they are trying to undermine the West
by a trade onslaught: Harold Macmillan speech: says people are
doing better than ever before: the strong economy must be used
to play our part in our interests from a position of strength.
England: The Preston bypass Britains first stretch of
motorway is opened by Harold Macmillan: Macmillan speech:
says he is proud to perform ceremony: barrier with Union Jack
on lifted as road declared open: view from front seat of car
as along empty motorway.