President Barack Obama recalled the visit of India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru to the US in 1949.
For it was exactly 60 years ago, in a ceremony not unlike this, that an American president welcomed to the White House the first prime minister of an independent India,” he said, rolling out the red carpet for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the first state visit of his presidency.
“And as Prime Minister Nehru said of the work before them, may our two great nations ‘find many ways of working together in friendly and fruitful cooperation to our mutual advantage, and for the good of humanity,’” Obama recalled.
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