{"id":329691,"date":"2020-12-22T05:16:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T05:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329691"},"modified":"2020-12-22T05:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T05:23:27","slug":"us-president-trump-presents-legion-of-merit-to-prime-minister-narendra-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-president-trump-presents-legion-of-merit-to-prime-minister-narendra-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"US President Trump presents &#8216;Legion of Merit&#8217; to Prime Minister Narendra Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-300359 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/modi-trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-trump.jpg 757w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-trump-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-trump-696x559.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-trump-523x420.jpg 523w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/>US President Donald Trump on Monday presented the highest decoration, the Legion of Merit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The award is in recognition of the Prime Minister\u2019s steadfast leadership and vision for India&#8217;s emergence as a global power, and exemplary contribution made by him for the advancement of the India-United States strategic partnership and promoting global peace and prosperity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPresident @realDonaldTrump presented the Legion of Merit to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his leadership in elevating the U.S.-India strategic partnership. Ambassador @SandhuTaranjitS accepted the medal on behalf of Prime Minister Modi.\u201d \u2013NSA Robert C. O\u2019Brien<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329694 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sandhu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/sandhu.jpg 548w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/sandhu-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/sandhu-452x420.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/>India&#8217;s Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, accepted the award on behalf of Prime Minister Modi from the US National Security Advisor Robert O&#8217;Brien at the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cUS confers &#8216;Legion of Merit&#8217; award on PM @narendramodi In recognition of PM&#8217;s steadfast leadership &amp; vision for India&#8217;s emergence as a global power, &amp; his exemplary contribution\u00a0 for advancement of ties &amp; promoting global peace &amp; prosperity,\u201d Sandhu tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Legion of Merit, in the highest degree of the Chief Commander, is a prestigious award conferred by the President of the United States, typically upon Heads of State or Heads of Government of other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At the ceremony, The Legion of Merit, Degree Chief Commander, was also awarded to the Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison, and former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Monday presented the highest decoration, the Legion of Merit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.\u00a0 The award is in recognition of the Prime Minister\u2019s steadfast leadership and vision for India&#8217;s emergence as a global power, and exemplary contribution made by him for the advancement of the India-United States strategic partnership and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[64,574,316,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329696,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329691\/revisions\/329696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}