Harold Holt Biography

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BIOGRAPHY- Harold Holt Death On Sunday 17 December 1967 in the morning he and his friends Christopher Anderson, Jan Lee and George Illson and his two bodyguards went down to Melbourne to go see British lone yachtsman Alec Rose head off to sail his boat around the world. Then later they Cheviot Beach which is his favourite places where he loved to go swimming and snorkeling. So he decided to go for a swim. Cheviot Beach is known for its dangerous rip tides and strong currents they have. His friends told him not to go in but ignoring them, as he was a strong swimmer he still went in and after a while he could nowhere to be seen. Christopher Anderson, Jan Lee and George Illson and his two bodyguards started to panic were he was. Then the police,…show more content…
In 1934 the federal election Holt was unsuccessfully contested the safe Labor seat of Yarra for the UAP, running against former Prime Minister James Scullin. In March 1935, he unsuccessfully contested the safe Victorian state Labor seat of Clifton Hill. In 1939 his mentor Robert Menzies became Prime Minister after the death of Joseph Lyons. Holt got a promotion assisting Menzies for Supply and Development. In October 1939 he became Minister in charge of Scientific and Industrial Research, and during November–December 1939 he was Acting Minister for Air and Civil Aviation. On 26th January 1966 Holt became the Prime Minister of Australia. While Prime Minister he dismantled some of the remaining traces of the White Australia policy that had excluded non-British and later non-European immigrants since Federation. The referendum of 1967, in which Aboriginal people were counted in the census and gave the Commonwealth government power to legislate for indigenous people, also occurred under Holt's stewardship. Holt also supporting the United States with Lyndon B. Johnson in what became the Vietnam War, and most particularly the policy of conscription in which randomly chose young Australian men were sent to Vietnam to…show more content…
These are the conspiracies that people heard he drowned, he was a homosexual committed suicide, drunk or on drugs while swimming, member of infamous Mr. Asia crimes indicate and murdered. Late 1983 worst inconspicuous news about his death had headlines around the world that he was a Chinese spy and a Chinese submarine came and took him he had arranged to get pic ked up. Remember For Harold Holt was remembered for Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War for his famous "All the way with LBJ" quote. For his memorial to remember what he had done for Australia while in office there were many thing done in memory. In 1968 the newly commissioned United States Navy Knox class destroyer escort USS Harold E. Holt (FF-1074) was named in his honour. In 1969 a plaque commemorating Holt was bolted to the seafloor off Cheviot Beach after a memorial ceremony. It bears the inscription: In memory of Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, who loved the sea and disappeared hereabouts on 17 December 1967. A wing for boarders at Wesley College, Melbourne the school he attend in his final years. My View on the Issue My view on Harold Holt’s
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