Appendix XVI
Sukarno and Nixon: Flattery?
Newsweek
NOVEMBER 25, 1963
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Founding Fathers
You write that President Sukarno of Indonesia recently made a speech at the U.S. Embassy in Djakarta likening himself to Abraham Lincoln, while he went the week afterward to a Soviet reception likening himself to Lenin (the periscope, Nov. 11).
Please permit me to remind Newsweek readers of the fact that former Vice President Richard Nixon, when he welcomed Sukarno in May 1956 on a state visit to this country, called Sukarno “the George Washington of Indonesia...’
Strangest of all, Sukarno is the founder and builder of his emerging nation; so what is wrong when he likens himself to Lincoln, Lenin, or even William of Orange?
Willem L. Oltmans
Kew Gardens, N.Y.
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