1959: INDIA: President Eisenhower visits India. INDIA GIVES IKE GREATEST ACCLAIM:
The President's Mission of Peace and Understanding brings him to India, most populous of the world's democracies, where he spends 4 momentous days and receives tribute and acclamation that outdoes even his sensational earlier receptions in Turkey and Pakistan. On arrival, opening the Agricultural Fair and at every public background, against a dazzlingly colorful setting of the ancient land of the moguls, Ike scores a brilliant triumph.