And Henry Kissinger was anti-Middle Eastern Indian in general.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050628/ap_on_go_pr_wh/nixon_india

Well, at least Nixon was kinder on Ghandi than what he had to say about Jewish people.

And how do you know that Nixon didn't mean "old b***"?  :-\\ Actually worst things were allegedly said by Nixon about blacks, Asians, Hispanics, gays, draft dodgers and other ethnic or liberal groups. He even hated Paul Newman.
Well, at least Nixon was kinder on Ghandi than what he had to say about Jewish people.

And how do you know that Nixon didn't mean "old b***"?  :-\\ Actually worst things were allegedly said by Nixon about blacks, Asians, Hispanics, gays, draft dodgers and other ethnic or liberal groups. He even hated Paul Newman.


Indeed.  Nixxon was equal-opportunity, he hated everybody.  That's not racist, it's paranoid.

Nixon ? Paranoid ? Nah.............  ::)

He pretty much was an equal opportunity jerk, he hated every one....  ::)

Hunter S. Thompson described Nixon best.

The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.

Nixon was crooked, a liar and a thief.  I stopped caring about what he said or did a long time ago.  There is nothing negative about the man or his policies that you could tell me he did, that I wouldn't believe.

Well, that's no way to endear-a-Ghandi!
:-\\

I assure you, attitudes are no different in the upper ranks of politics today.  The hostility and paranoia are simply glossed over with phony tact, and the thuggery is deputized to underlings who'll take a fall for the big guys if caught.

Speaking of Nixon insults, here's my favorite:

"He is a shifty-eyed g()dd*mn liar...He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."
-- Harry S Truman (about Richard M. Nixon, 1978)

:P

Good man that Nixon! He's right, Indira Gandhi was a witch. Most Indians didn't like her anyway. She held back India for years (along with a stifling centralized Communist leaning government) and only when it finally got free of her and other government regulations did its economy start to pick up in the early '90s.

If you're interested in India and its economy (and some history and politics) then I recommend you read the excellent
India Unbound by Gurcharan Das
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385720742/qid=1120256864/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2871289-5466468?v=glance&s=books

(or you can just ask any person from India you happen to know. I always ask them about Ghandi, Nehru and dear, dear Indira. You'd be surprised at how they see things and what they think of these people)