Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson set the tone for the week by dancing into the wee hours after Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had gone home at midnight, following a state dinner in her honor at the White House. He signaled the scarlet-coated Marine Band to strike up Hello, Dolly!, fox-trotted with more than a dozen partners. Despite the rule that nobody leaves a social event before the President does, only a handful of the 140 guests managed to outlast him. Even Aides Marvin Watson and Jack Valenti, one of whom usually escorts the President to his White House bedroom each night...
...invitation had been extended originally to Lai Bahadur Shastri in January 1965, was put off somewhat tactlessly by Lyndon Johnson three months later, and re-extended in October. When Shastri died before he could make the trip, the invitation went out anew to his successor, Indira Gandhi...
...been plagued by a torrent of problems at home, and last week, when she was finally able to get away, another snag developed: Air India's navigators went on strike for higher wages, grounding the Boeing 707 that she was to use for her trip. Undismayed, Mrs. Gandhi climbed into a slower, medium-range Caravelle of India's domestic airline for the 18-hour flight to Paris, which required four refueling stops...
After lunch and talks in Paris with Charles de Gaulle, Mrs. Gandhi boarded a more suitable transport for her transatlantic flight: a White House...
...Indira Gandhi was eager to thank the President for the 3,000,000 tons of emergency food that have already begun to arrive in India, would argue that India deserves full resumption of the U.S. economic aid that was cut off during last fall's border war with Pakistan. She welcomed, too, the opportunity of placing India's viewpoint on world problems before the President. "We have been talking at each other a great deal," she said before leaving Delhi. "It will be good to talk with each other...