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...Guatemala has the most frustrating gap. Mexico's fine paved stretch of the highway reaches the border at a different point from where Guatemala's road net touches the Mexican border. At present a 164-mile, $35 railway-flatcar haul bridges the gap. With $1,425,000 granted last October by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, construction is getting started to connect the loose ends. But Nixon, who wants to help anti-Communist President Carlos Castillo Armas with public works, backs a speedup (with $20 million to $30 million in U.S. aid) that will quickly close...
...Guatemala, when Nixon asked a market woman about her husband, she rocked him by answering, "I have no husband, just babies"; he didn't bat an eye. In El Salvador, children sang The Star-Spangled Banner in quaint English and proudly confided that they were from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt School; he grinned. In Honduras hundreds of swooping bicycle riders turned the Vice President's dignified motorcade into a happily disorganized parade; he was delighted...
Again and again last week, in Cuba, Mexico and Guatemala, Nixon showed the same deft soft-collar touch. When a Cuban reporter at a news conference asked him to say something in Spanish, Nixon first explained through an interpreter that his high-school Spanish was badly rusted; then he drew a burst of sympathetic laughter from the Cubans by saying good-naturedly: "Buenos días. Muchas gracias. Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis." Upon landing in Mexico City from Havana, Nixon got off to another ice-breaking start by reminding the Mexicans that he had visited their country before...
Presidents & Peddlers. In each country he visited, Nixon called upon the chief of state-President-elect Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, Presidents Adolfo Ruiz Cortines in Mexico and Carlos Castillo Armas in Guatemala-to present a silver-framed picture of Ike and Mamie Eisenhower and to chat about affairs of state. But Nixon also shook hands with and talked to the common people he met at every turn-leather-palmed cane-field workers, ragged fruit peddlers, schoolkids, mothers with babes in arms. Unaccustomed to such free-and-easy mingling, the Latin government officials who escorted the Vice President around often seemed...
From Mexico the Nixons flew to Guatemala. Beyond lay El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti...