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    "ocrText": "DRAFT\nMy dear Mr. President:\nI have received your kind letter of December 5 and I\ngreatly appreciated your thoughtfulness in writing to me as\nyou did. I was gled to be able to appoint the Special Mission\nto your inauguration, and it is good to have your generous\ncomment on its participation. I was also very pleased that\nthe Secretary of the Treasury, the Honorable John Snyder, was\nable to accept your kind invitation to be present at the\ninaugural ceremonies.\nI am delighted to accept your courteous and friendly\ninvitation to visit your great nation. Depending upon air-\ncunstances prevailing at the time, I should like to make the\nvisit for a few days sometime during the period between\nFebruary 15 and March 15, 1947, the details of which can be\nworked out at a later date.\nIn addition to visiting Mexico City for two days if that\nmeets with your approval, I should like to spend approximately\na week making informal visits to some of the other areas of\nMexico, and your suggestion regarding the opportunity to fish\nat Acapulco interests me greatly.\nDuring my visit to your nation's capital, I plan to\nreside at my country's Embassy.\nIt affords me great pleasure to extend to you a cordial\ninvitation to repay my visit as soon as practicable and at a\ntime which will be convenient to you. It occurs to me that\nsubject to your approval, sometime during April would be a\nvery suitable time for you to come to Washington as the\nofficial guest of my Government. I hope that you will be\nable to accept my invitation and that as soon as we can\ndetermine the approximate dates of the two visits, we may\nmake simultaneous public announcements regarding the plane.\nI take this opportunity to renew to you, Mr. President,\nthe assurances of my highest consideration and cordial\nfriendship.\nVery sincerely yours,\nTRUMAN\nHis Excellency\nLicenciado Miguel Aleman,\nPresident of the\nARCHIVES GOVERNMENT SERVICE\" RECORDS \"NATIONAL AND\nUnited Mexican States,\nMexico, D. F."
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