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Harold Macmillan

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June 5, 1961 - President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan meet at Admiralty House

 

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Harold Macmillan giving a speech on Margaret Thatcher's Privatisation policies

 

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Harold Macmillan talking about Eden's retirement

 

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Macmillan Joins AA - QI - Series 9 - Episode 10 - BBC Two

 

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Selected Originals - Macmillan's Speech From 10 Downing Street (1957)

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability.
  • Personal 

  • Family 

  • Schooling, university and early political views 

  • War service 

  • Canadian aide-de-campship 

  • Macmillan Publishers 

  • Marriage 

  • Member of Parliament (1924–1929) 

  • Member of Parliament (1931–1939) 

  • Phoney War (1939–1940) 

  • Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Supply (1940–1942) 

  • Colonial Under-Secretary (1942) 

  • Minister Resident in the Mediterranean (1942–1945) 

  • Air Secretary (1945) 

  • Opposition (1945–1951) 

  • Housing Minister (1951–1954) 

  • Defence Minister (1954–1955) 

  • Foreign Secretary (1955) 

  • Budget 

  • Suez 

  • Succession to Eden 

  • First government, 1957–1959 

  • Economy 

  • Domestic policies 

  • Foreign policy 

  • Nuclear weapons 

  • 1959 general election 

  • Relations with the United States 

  • Wind of Change 

  • Skybolt crisis 

  • Europe 

  • Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963) 

  • End of premiership 

  • Profumo affair 

  • Resignation 

  • Succession 

  • Historians' assessments of Macmillan's premiership 

  • Retirement, 1963–1986 

  • Oxford chancellor (1960–1986) 

  • Return to Macmillan Publishers 

  • London Clubs 

  • Political interventions 

  • Relations with Margaret Thatcher 

  • Death and funeral 

  • January 1957 – October 1959 

  • October 1959 – July 1960 

  • July 1960 – October 1961 

  • October 1961 – July 1962 

  • July 1962 – October 1963 

  • Cited texts