In his memoir, My Life, Clinton writes of the visit as being crucial since 'we had wasted too much time since the end of the Cold War, when India had aligned itself with the Soviet Union principally as a counterweight to China.'
The report added that some have called the win in Florida a political stunt.
From when James Buchanan was sworn in in 1857 to Donald Trump in 2017.
What goes behind the scenes for an American President's visit?
'His popularity is still high; respect for his intellect and integrity is still discernible; but his long night may just be beginning,' says Ambassador B S Prakash.
'An America at war with itself, groaning under a mounting debt, with woolly-headed economic policies of a neophyte president who is more feared and suspected among the comity of nations does not augur well for the world.' 'It would be well justified in asking,' says Shreekant Sambrani, '"Is this how you expect to make America great again, Mr President?"'
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