Editing Indira Gandhi (section)

=== United States ===
[[File:Indira Gandhi and LBJ meeting in the Oval Office (1).tif|thumb|right|Gandhi meeting President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] in the Oval Office on 28&nbsp;March 1966]]
When Gandhi came to power in 1966, [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Lyndon Johnson]] was the US president. At the time, India was reliant on the US for food aid. Gandhi resented the US policy of food aid being used as a tool to force India to adopt policies favoured by the US. She also resolutely refused to sign the [[Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons]] (NPT). Relations with the US were strained badly under President Richard Nixon and his favouring of Pakistan during the Bangladesh liberation war. Nixon despised Gandhi politically and personally.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Van Dijk|editor1-first=Ruud|editor2-last=Glenn Gray|editor2-first=William|editor3-last=Savranskaya|editor3-first=Svetlana|editor4-last=Suri|editor4-first=Jeremi|editor5-last=Zhai|editor5-first=Qiang |title=Encyclopedia of the Cold War.|date=2008|publisher=[[Routledge]]|location=New York|isbn=978-0-203-88021-0|pages=340–341|url={{Google books|QgX0bQ3Enj4C|page=PR3|keywords=%22indira%20gandhi%22%20johnson|text=|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> In 1981, Gandhi met President [[Ronald Reagan]] for the first time at the [[North–South Summit]] held to discuss global poverty. She had been described to him as an 'Ogre', but he found her charming and easy to work with and they formed a close working relationship during her premiership in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Wolfgang|editor-first=Hoppenstedt|title=Global management|date=2005|publisher=Lit|location=Wien|isbn=978-3-8258-8644-8|pages=65–66|url={{Google books|ZaeM0YNbRA4C|page=PA61|keywords=indira%20|text=|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref>