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THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON October 8, 1946 Dear Mary: I am enclosing you a program of a concert we attended last night just on the spur of the moment. It was a nice concert. I tore the corner off the program and wrote a note to old man Straus and asked him to play the Blue Danube Waltz after the Bat Overture. He announced he was playing it by request and they received a better hand for it than any other number on the program. The entire program was lovely - there wasn'1 a thing on it that wasn't worth listening to. I hope you have mamma at home by this time and that everything is all right. I intended to call you up last night and then took a sudden notion to go to this concert. I found out that Oscar is no kin to the other Straus people. The Erwin Straus on the program is his son - he is quite a pianist. I am going to try to get the Van Den Burg spelling over to the Senator - he evidently doesn't know how to spell his name if this guy is spelling it the right way. Lose to you fath they. TRUMAD NARA