A Vital Election

Prime Minister Harold E. Holt stood grinning wryly at the question at Canberra’s National Press Club on his return to Australia from the United States and Britain. Just how embracing, the newspaperman wanted to know, had Mr. Holt meant to be when he announced in the United States that he was “All the way with LBJ”?

The question was inevitable. Ever since Holt had used the phrase in front of his delighted host, President Johnson, Australians had been curious.