'President Johnson was in tears': Remembering Harold Holt

By Jacqueline Maley
Updated December 10 2017 - 2:35pm, first published December 8 2017 - 9:59am

A prime minister drowning in rough surf is the stuff of movies, except it famously happened here. Fifty years on, Harold Holt’s niece recalls an awful day, a gentler time – and hitching a ride home on Prince Charles’ jet.

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