A Matter Of Trust: India-US Relations from Truman to Trump by Meenakshi Ahamed

Author:Meenakshi Ahamed [Ahamed, Meenakshi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Published: 2021-01-14T23:00:00+00:00

* Professor Moynihan was a Democrat and had been an advisor to presidents Kennedy and Johnson before joining the Nixon White House.

† India was confronting severe food shortages in 1972–73 and was trying to buy wheat. The US was the only country with surplus wheat. The Russians were also short of wheat and buying it from the US.

‡ The Simla Agreement was contentious and came close to failing. Mrs Gandhi was accused by many of selling India short. However, there has been no following agreement that achieved a peaceful solution to the disputes.

§ Much of these criticisms were for domestic consumption and to satisfy the communist elements.

¶ Ford became president on 9 August 1974.

** Ford’s decision to pardon Nixon was very controversial.

†† President Ford did not actually utter those words. New York City was facing bankruptcy and he decided against bailing them out, and those were the words used by the newspaper headlines. It cost him politically and some say it cost him his presidency.

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