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Indira meets President Lyndon Johnson on her first prime ministrial visit on United States during India's 1966 food crisis. the two leaders established an immediate rapport

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At the time, Indira’s 1966 trip to America was regarded as an enormous success, primarily because President Lyndon Johnson, a huge, strapping Texan, found Indira irresistible. Indira turned on her subtle charm, and looked glamorous with a new bouffant hairstyle, full make-up and jewellery. Johnson was so entranced with Indira that after a private meeting at the home of B.K.Nehrus, he stayed on, and on,, downing tyrumblers of bourbon on the rocks whilst the evening’s banquet guests arrived. When the meal could be postponed no longer, Fori Nehru and Indira politely suggested to Johnson that he join them, and ignoring protocol, he agreed, even though the Vice-President, Herbett Humprey, was supposed to be the guest of honour. ~ Page 297

Back at home, the continuing enmity of Indira and Dsai reflected the ever-deepening fissure in the Congress Party between its radical and conservative wings. . . . The radical or ‘Young Turks’ were somewhat misleadingly equated with Indira who was considerably less ideologically committed than they. ~ Page 307

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Roger (Grisly) ^club

Remarkable period in history!

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