Harry Truman's Historic Visit to Mexico in March 1947
In March 1947, President Harry Truman visited Mexico, marking the first visit by a U.S. President since the Mexican-American War. Truman's gesture at the Los Niños Heroes Monument helped mend relations between the two countries. The visit included meetings with Mexican officials, tours of historic sites, and vibrant receptions by enthusiastic crowds.
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In March 1947, Harry Truman became the first U.S. President to visit Mexico 100 years after the Mexican-American War. Truman met with Mexican President Miguel Aleman and toured historic sites in Mexico City, including an unscheduled wreath laying at the Los Ni os Heroes Monument at Chapultepec Castle. The monument memorializes six young cadets who killed themselves to avoid capture by American soldiers. Truman s gesture helped mend relations between the U.S. and Mexico. A Mexican engineer stated, One hundred years of misunderstanding and bitterness wiped out by one man in one minute. That is the best neighbor policy.
March 4: Come into sight of Monterey [sic] after the sun had been up an hour or two. Country looks like a map. About nine or nine thirty see Popocatepetl and try to see Orizaba- haze too thick[,] can't see it. Approach rim around Tenochtitlan Valley-up 11000 feet. No discomfort. Beautiful valley. Must have been lovely when a lake. Too bad the Spaniards drained it. Made a lot of dust. Perfect day. Land at 10:00 on the dot. My pilot never misses a schedule. Step down from plane. Mexican President comes down steps of observation tower at same time. We meet. I like him at once. He introduces his Cabinet, I introduce my secretaries and aides. We walk to platform beautiful [sic] decorated with flowers-both flags worked out in flowers. The Mexican President welcomes me. I am made a citizen of the Federal district by its Governor-another Aleman[,] no kin of the President. He pins a beautiful gold medal on me. I make suitable reply and mispronounce Tenochtitlan to the delight of everybody. We get into my big open Lincoln car and start for American Embassy. Never saw such crowds-such enthusiasm. Arrive at Embassy[,] bid President goodbye. Have dinner at Palace where I make a speech in reply to the
