262. Memorandum From the Director of the Executive Secretariat (Calhoun) to the Acting Secretary of State1
PRESIDENTIAL PARTICIPATION IN Castro VISIT
ARA is reluctant to recommend at this time on Presidential participation in the Castro visit. Yesterday, for example, Prime Minister Castro let out another blast at the US,2 while on other occasions he has seemed more mellow. The Bureau would prefer to wait, therefore, until perhaps a week or so before April 17 when Castro is due to address the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
In view of the widespread domestic American interest in Castro, however, you may think it desirable to apprise the President of your plans with respect to Castro’s visit and to tell him that we will furnish [Page 431] recommendations regarding possible Presidential participation at a date closer to Castro’s arrival, unless the President has some definite ideas of his own at this time.
- Source: Department of State, Central Files, 737.00/3–1359. Confidential. A handwritten note in the margin reads: “See also attached telegram from Havana.” No telegram is attached to the source text, but the reference may be to telegram 1049 from Havana, March 12, summarized in footnote 2, Document 260.↩
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