A week before Jimmy Carter's inauguration in January 1977, Indira Gandhi had ended the Emergency and scheduled elections for March 1977. In February, Indian President Fakrudin Ali Ahmed died, and Jimmy Carter, in a gesture of symbolism of considerable warmth, designated his mother, "Miss Lillian," who had served two years as a Peace Corps volunteer near Bombay during the late sixties, to represent the United States at the funeral.
After the elections, which saw the defeat of Mrs. Gandhi, the veteran Janata Party leader Morarji Desai, 81, virtually moved from jail to being the Prime Minister. The peanut farmer from Georgia and the austere Gujarati, both owed their elections to major political trauma -- Carter to Watergate, and Desai to Emergency.
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