It was forty years ago today...

[Janus]

Of course he drowned. That's why we have the Harold Holt Memorial Swim Centre instead of the Harold Holt Memorial Chinese Submarine.

 

[Mobyseven]

Janus: Haha...oh, the irony burns.

I love how people can get carried away with the whole Holt thing...as if a drowning on an Australian beach is somehow unusual. Hell, it's Australia - the wildlife, the landscape, the weather...the entire damn country is out to kill you! Gotta love it though...

 

[SDC]

Unidentified Submerged Object?? Take this, buster! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USO

(United Service Organizations. Do the Brits have something like it called NAAFI?)

Of course, since I got burned on the drop bears thing, maybe I should just tiptoe away and leave Australian topics strictly alone.

 

[Graham2001]

Found it – it's a 5 minute documentary from the Prime Ministers' National Treasures series. It briefly mentions some of the CTs, one of which includes perennial suspects, the CIA.

I remember a few years ago someone telling me that LBJ had the CIA do Holt in because he went 'All the Way' with Lady Bird Johnston...

Not that I believe a word of it Cheviot was never a safe beach to swim from.

Still it got us Gorton, the only PM to loose office via a no confidence motion in which he voted against himself (it was the deciding vote too...).

That said I think 'The Dish' took terrible liberties with his character.

 

[Beerina]

No way. If that were true, the Earth would have to be round.

Of course it's round. Round like a pancake!

 

[timhau]

Of course it's round. Round like a pancake!

Explain the four corners of the Earth, then.

PWNED!

 

[LashL]

Woot. Only ten years to go before the inevitable, "It was 50 years ago today" thread.

 

[lionking]

I was a very good surf swimmer in my youth (club champion at Bondi Surf Club one year) but I would not think of swimming at Cheviot Beach. Death through stupidity.