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An angry Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Tuesday night made a slip mentioning (Abraham) Lincoln instead of (Bill) Clinton, while referring to the former US president when he launched a blistering attack on the leader of opposition Sonia Gandhi in Parliament.
"During the Kargil war Lincoln called me and said that Pakistan prime minister is here (in the US) and invited me to the US to talk to him," Vajpayee said.
While the members were still wondering whether they heard him say Lincoln or Clinton, Vajpayee corrected himself saying he meant Bill Clinton.
He went on to say that he told the US president that he will not talk to the Pakistani leader so long as that country had a 'single inch of our land'.
"So I did not go. I was under no pressure," he said, visibly upset over the Congress president's charges that he was working under pressure from the Sangh Parivar and accusations by the Left parties that he was succumbing to US pressure.
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