Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that the United States agreeing to a civil nuclear cooperation deal with India will be an act of "historic reconciliation." Hoping that the deal would be clinched during the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush, Dr. Singh said: " ... That would be a great contribution of President Bush to ending India's isolation from the world nuclear order." "I mentioned to the President last time I met, 'Mr. President, the people of India, particularly the thinking part of our population, our scientists, our technologists, have rightly or wrongly nursed this grievance against the United States.