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Defence: No.10 internal minute: Parsons to Coles (“Nuclear weapons and public opinion”) [“We now have in the White House a President of lower intellectual calibre… than any incumbent since the Second World War”] [declassified 2016]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1690 f167
Editorial comments: Sir Anthony Parsons was a Ministerial adviser to MT. The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here. Read other documents selected from this file.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Defence (general), Defence (arms control), European Union (general), Foreign policy (International organizations), Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Media, British relations with the US, British relations with the Soviet Union