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    "ocrText": "THE FOREIGN SERVICE\nOF THE\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA\nAMERICAN EMBASSY\nBuenos Aires, Argentina\nARCHIVES \"NATIONAL AND\nPERSONAL AND CONT IDDNT IAL\nRECORDS\nSERVICE'^\nDecember 9, 1948\nMy dear Mr. President:\nThanks so much for your very kind letter of November 23,\nand I appreciate your generous and liberal comments, and it\nwill be the greatest pleasure of course for me to do anything\nyou want me to. The only thing I had in mind was to go back\nto engage again in pretty much the same pursuits that I left,\nand if I stayed so far away from all my friends for too long\nthey would begin to forget me.\nI will plan to come up to Washington around the middle\nof February or the first of March and will look forward to\nseeing you then.\nI wrote to Howard McGrath a little while back and told him\nnot to worry too much about the deficit, because I felt sure we\ncould pay it off around the end of March or the lst of April;\nthe same way we did the Democratic deficit back in 1942 when\nPresident Roosevelt asked me if I would not work on it for him,\nand we cleaned it up entirely, but unfortunately like all Demo-\ncratic deficits it didn't stay cleaned up.\nThe way I suggested to Howard to raise the money, we will\nhave the Republicans paying for about half of it; they're so\nused to that sort of thing now it won't be any great burden to\nthem.\nWe are enjoying very much the visit here of your good friends,\nSenator and Mrs. Chavez. The Senator is absolutely ideally suited\nfor these people because they consider him not only a brother under\nthe skin, but he is completely bilingual. He has only been here\nthree days, and next to Peron is already the most popular man in\nthe Argentine. He has been the greatest help to us, and if anyone\ncan make headway with the Argentines he can. I am sure you will be\ninterested in talking with him when he gets back.\nThe President,\nThe White House.\nPERSONAL AND CONFIDENTINT"
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