Records

Each record focuses on a single item from the National Archives' collection. Some records contain extra information to help you interpret them.

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  American President Lyndon B Johnson on official visit to Australia

  This photograph shows United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson among a crowd of people during an official visit to Australia in October 1966.

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  Australia to supply sugar to free world forces in South Vietnam – Letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson to Prime Minister John Gorton

  Letter to Prime Minister John Gorton from Lyndon B Johnson, President of the USA, on the supply of sugar to free world forces during the Vietnam war.

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  Australian troops marching in ‘welcome home’ parade in Brisbane after returning from Vietnam

  This photograph shows a 'welcome home' parade for Australian soldiers who had returned from service in South Vietnam.

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  Australia–USA talks about Vietnam and nuclear weapons

  This is a 5-page record of high-level talks held in Canberra on 9 May 1962, between Australia and the United States.

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  Concern about Balkan and Mediterranean migrants – letter to Prime Minister Stanley Bruce from Commissioner for Australia in the United States

  A letter to Prime Minister Stanley Bruce, expressing concern about certain types of settlers.

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  Country Party leader John McEwen defending Australia's involvement in Vietnam War

  This is a typed letter from John McEwen, Country Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister, to a constituent, Myles Chappell.

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  John Curtin's signed photograph of American President Franklin D Roosevelt

  A photograph of US President Franklin D Roosevelt presented to Prime Minister John Curtin during his April 1944 visit to the White House in Washington DC.

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  Letter to Prime Minister Bruce from the Ku Klux Klan

  This letter from a Ku Klux Klan member to Prime Minister Stanley Bruce thanks the Australian government for their stand on White Australia Policy.

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  Letter to Prime Minister Stanley Bruce about American immigration restrictions

  This is a letter written to Prime Minister Stanley Bruce in 1925, regarding immigration restrictions applied to Americans.