Rahul Gandhi had met Barack Obama during his last visit to India in December 2017.
New Delhi:
Former US President Barack Obama, in his recently released political memoir “A Promised Land,” has drawn sketches of various leaders of the United States and other nations, including Rahul Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, according to a New York Times report. . The UPA government, led by Singh, was in power for part of Obama’s decade-long term from 2009 to 2017.
“And then there are his biographical sketches, masterful for their brevity, insight and humor,” the New York Times review reads.
The gallery, according to the US newspaper, included former Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, then Defense Secretary Bob Gates and US President-elect Joe Biden, among others.
On Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the New York Times article said: “Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seem to have a kind of impassive integrity.”
“Rahul Gandhi has ‘a nervous and reportless quality about him, as if he were a student who had done the course work and was eager to impress the teacher, but deep down lacked the aptitude or passion to master the subject'” The New York Times reported, quoting from the book.
Rahul Gandhi, who was vice president of Congress during Obama’s term, had met with Obama during his last visit to India in December 2017. Gandhi had tweeted about the meeting.
“I had a fruitful chat with President @BarackObama. It’s great to see him again,” Gandhi had posted, along with a photograph.
I had a fruitful chat with the president @Barack Obama Great to see it again. pic.twitter.com/LCJKGBg0Qr
– Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) December 1, 2017
In 2015, Obama was the main guest of the Republic Day celebrations. During the visit, he even co-hosted “Mann ki Baat” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The New York Times review also cited Obama’s views on US President-elect Joe Biden.
“Joe Biden is a decent, honest and loyal man who Obama feels that ‘he could become irritable if he thought that he was not given his due, a quality that could emerge when dealing with a much younger boss,'” it read the NYT article.
“Vladimir Putin reminds him of the tough and cunning neighborhood bosses who used to run the Chicago machine. Also about Putin:” Physically, he was not remarkable, “the NYT article read.
On Hu Jintao, who was president of China from 2003 to 2013, the NYT article read: “In a private meeting, Hu Jintao reads stacks of prepared documents, so monotonous that Obama considers suggesting ‘that we could save each other’s time by simply swapping papers and reading them in our spare time. “
“The Promised Land” is the first two-part memoir written by the 59-year-old former president of the United States.
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