281. Editorial Note
President Eisenhower visited Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay, February 23–March 3. While in Brazil, February 23–26, he and Secretary Herter and Assistant Secretary Rubottom, who accompanied him, met with President Kubitschek, Foreign Minister Láfer, and other Brazilian officials. Memoranda of their conversations are printed here. See Documents 68 ff., 204, 302, and 350. Documentation on the trip is in Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 559, CF 1596–1609. For texts of the statements issued during the visit to Brazil and the President’s radio and television report to the American people on the trip, March 8, see Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960–61, pages 210–230 and 282–287. For the account of the trip in his memoirs, see Dwight D. Eisenhower, The White House Years: Waging the Peace, 1956–1961 (Garden City, N.Y., 1965), pages 525–533.