"We who are free-and who prize our freedom above all other gifts of God and nature-must know each other better; trust each other more; support each other." Dwight Eisenhower uttered this pious hope in Delhi in 1959 and, ever since, an American president has popped back once in a while to utter it again. George Bush, who is expected at the beginning of March, will be the fifth to pay a state visit. Leaders of both the world's most powerful democracy and of its most populous one have long found it baffling and irksome that they are not firmer friends. Mr Bush has a better chance than any of his predecessors of putting that right.
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