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Holt, the reforming PM.(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: The article "Harold Holt and the Beautiful People" by Max Teichmann (September 2005) contains two glaring misquotations from my new book The Life and Death of Harold Holt.
First, I did not describe Harold Holt as "the real Whitlamite". This description of Australia's seventeenth prime minister appeared in the title of an article I published in the Australian on August 5 and was added by a sub-editor. This was not the title I provided.
Second, I do not claim that Holt ...
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