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...nearly 3 p.m. The President sat alone at his desk, cleaning up his day's work, glancing now & again into the gloomy afternoon. A storm was rolling up, and he had a date to meet President Prado of Peru at Boiling Field. Thunderheads stood darkly over the Potomac; soon the big cool raindrops would spatter down. The President watched the clock...
President Roosevelt, who loves good news, went beaming to his meeting with Good Neighbor Prado. The less optimistic might wait and wonder, but Franklin Roosevelt was confident of a victory won. The thunderheads broke; the rain poured down. The skies brightened. Said the first Navy communiqué: "Very excellent news has been received...
Other men at such a meeting might have searched their minds for more memorable words. Not so Good Neighbor Franklin Roosevelt and Good Neighbor Manuel Prado Ugarteche of Peru. But it was a memorable occasion: Señor Prado was the first incumbent President of a South American country ever to visit Washington...
Leaving Houghton by the front door, the party rounded the steps of Windener, which had been cleared of students, to find over 2000 cheering and clapping undergraduates. In a blaze of flash bulbs and grinding movie cameras Prado, still acknowledging the cheers with his hat, was pulled away in the official limousines as a motorcycle escort cleared a path...
Before leaving Cambridge for Boston and lunch with the Governor at the Harvard Club, Prado visited his son's club on Mount Auburn Street for champagne cocktails. After a brief glance at Lowell House and a final wave of his hat President Prado was escorted down Mount Auburn Street to Boston...