‘Kennedy, wife didn’t vibe well with Nehru, Indira’

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Washington – A new book has shown that late American President John F

Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline did not vibe well with Pandit

Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi during their

meetings.

When Nehru visited the US in November 1961, the then American

President Kennedy called it as "the worst head-of-State visit" and

considered the former Prime Minister’s last days as "the town

preacher being caught in the whorehouse".

Kennedy also did not like Nehru’s company while the First Lady Jackie

Kennedy hated his daughter and future Prime Minister Indira Gandhi,

calling her as real prune. However, the first couple loved reading

cables from the then US Ambassador to India, John Kenneth Galbriath,

as they were all piece of great literature.

"It’s like the town preacher being caught in the whorehouse," John F

Kennedy is quoted as saying about Nehru in his last days in power.

These nuggets of information about the views the first couple had

about the two top Indian leaders is part of the the book, Jacqueline

Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F Kennedy. On day

one, the book, which is basically the seven-part interview of Jackie

Kennedy conducted in early 1964, was a number one bestseller on

Amazon and Barnes and Nobles.

Referring to the 1961 US visit of Nehru, the book says that it was

decided that the men would have their lunch in the dining room while

Jackie would have the little ladies lunch in the living room along

with Indira Gandhi, who was accompanying her father.

"Well, of course, she hated that. She liked to be in with the men.

And she is a real prune-bitter, kind of pushy, horrible woman. You

know, I just don’t like her a bit. It always looks like she’s been

sucking a lemon," Jackie said according to the transcripts of the

interview in the book. "He (President Kennedy) used to say about

Nehru sometimes, ‘Isn’t it sad? This man did so much for

independence, but he stayed around too long and now it’s all going,

bit by bit, and he’s botching up things. "And, Nehru’s image really

did change in his last years because he got to be awfully

sanctimonious, the difference between Hungary and Goa and all of

that," she said.

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