Word: whitlam
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...aspect of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser's visit here last Friday to present a $1 million bicentennial gift is that Fraser made the trip at all. From the beginning, the decision to donate the money to Harvard was the responsibility of his opponent, former Prime Minister E. Gough Whitlam. It was Whitlam who announced on July 4, 1975, that the funds would go to the University. And it was supposed to be Whitlam here on Friday, making a speech that Harvard officials hoped would parallel the address that head of state Willy Brandt made at Harvard in 1972. Instead...
...look at each man's record bears out their differences. Whitlam, leader of the left-wing Labour Party, held office for only three years, between 1972 and 1975. But during that short period, he placed new items on the public agenda and pioneered major changes in Australia's foreign and domestic policies...
Former Australian prime minister E. Gough Whitlam originally presented this gift on July 4, 1975, as part of what he called Australia's role in celebrating the United States bicentennial...
...Whitlam, speaking at the Australian-American Ball in Sydney, Australia last year, commended "this proposal to the great companies and corporation--which operate in the two countries. Some of them, I trust, will see the chair as a focal point for further research endowments in their own names in disciplines of special interest to them...
Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam announced that Harvard would receive the gift on July...