JAMES HAROLD WILSON (UNITED KINGDOM)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06790971
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-02307
• Publication Date: June 17, 1975

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(James) Harold WILSON
Prime Minister
Addressed as:
Mr. Prime Minister
Labor Party leader
Harold Wilson, 59, has
been Prime Minister
since March 1974. He
had previously served
as Prime Minister
during 1964-70. Person-
ally friendly toward
this country, he has
met with President
Gerald Ford and Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger several times in 1975,
beginning with a state visit to Washington in Janu-
uary. Following an overwhelming endorsement of
continued EC membership in a 5 June referendum, he
affirmed that Britain would play a full and construc-
tive role in EC affairs. He has reshuffled his
Cabinet to move some of the vocal anti-Marketeers
to less important positions and is expected to focus
immediately on his country's growing economic problems.
In addition, Wilson has pledged full support to NATO.
Wilson is a consummate politician--skillful,
shrewd and subtle. A political pragmatist, he has
shown great skill in uniting the diverse elements
of his party, but he has never been a popular leader.
His brilliant mind, political acumen and phenomenal
debating skill and wit are offset, in the eyes of
his critics, by a record of oppp.rtun
and shifting lovalties
UNITED KINGDOM
A man of simple tastes and habits, Wilson shuns
ordinary social life. He apparently has no close
political "cronies." Apart from his family and
politics, reading and golf are his chief interests.
Married, he has two sons.
17 June 1975
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