Donald Trump, Barack Obama and more, all the US President's who visited India
When Donald Trump is greeted with a crescendo of "Namastes" when he lands in Ahmedabad he will be the seventh US President to visit India while in office. He visited India in 2014 as a real estate businessman, but this will be a presidential visit.
President Dwight Eisenhower
President Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, who came to India in 1959 at the height of the Cold War was the first to visit India as it was coming into its own as an independent nation and the laboratory of democracy. The visits reflect in some ways the status of India in the US world view. Eisenhower`s visit was to explore India as young democracy with hopes of closer cooperation, perhaps moving away from Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru`s nonalignment. (Photo: Reuters)
President Bill Clinton
While there have been gaps of about a decade between some of the visits, since Bill Clinton in 2000 every president has come to India in a sign of its rising importance in world efforts. There was a ten-year gap between Eisenhower`s visit and the next. Democrats John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson had skipped India firmly ensconced in the nonaligned movement. (Johnson, however, had visited Pakistan, then a US ally.) (Photo: Reuters)
President Richard Nixon
President Jimmy Carter
President Bill Clinton
President Barack Obama
President George Bush
The highlight of Republican George W Bush`s visit in 2006 was the signing of the landmark US-India Civil Nuclear Agreement - which was the only time a substantive agreement between the two countries was signed during a presidential visit. The agreement, which he signed with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, virtually recognises India as a nuclear weapons power exempting it from some of the US nuclear nonproliferation restrictions in order for both the countries to cooperate in the nuclear field with access to some civilian nuclear technology and materials. It effectively neutralised some of the stringent sanctions imposed on India after its 1974 nuclear test. (Photo: Reuters)