Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
Nehru, Jawaharlal. The Discovery of India. The Signet Press, 1946, p. 453.
The United States at the time was overly weak in military preparedness. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had authorized the rapid building and deployment of 10,000 airplanes. Arnold cut through all the bureaucracy and red tape.
He served Presidents Reagan, Clinton, and both Bushes
While Abraham Lincoln set the precedent for independent Presidential action in a national political crises without much reliance on Congress, this was where Roosevelt established the precedent of unilateral action in financial crises.
Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian independence activist and, subsequently, the first Prime Minister of India, as well as a central figure in Indian politics both before and after independence. He emerged as an eminent leader of the Indian independence movement, serving India as Prime Minister from its establishment in 1947 as an independent nation, until his death in 1964. He was also known as Pandit Nehru due to his roots with the Kashmiri Pandit community, while Indian children knew him better as Chacha Nehru (Hindi: Uncle Nehru).
