 In international affairs the most dramatic event during Douglas @-@ Home 's premiership was the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963 . Douglas @-@ Home , clearly moved , broadcast a tribute on television . He had liked and worked well with Kennedy , and did not develop such a satisfactory relationship with Lyndon Johnson . Their governments had a serious disagreement on the question of British trade with Cuba . Under Douglas @-@ Home the colonies of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland gained independence , though this was as a result of negotiations led by Macleod under the Macmillan government . 
