Nixon's dislike of 'witch' Indira - Democratic Underground

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Wed Jun-29-05 08:35 AM
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Nixon's dislike of 'witch' Indira

Ex-US President Richard Nixon called Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi an "old witch", according to recently released documents from the 1970s.

His national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, said "the Indians are bastards anyway" in the run-up to the India-Pakistan war of 1971.

At the time, the US saw India as too close to the then Soviet Union.

The US state department has declassified many documents this month on US foreign policy of the time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4633263.stm

I expect the feeling was mutual....

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