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President Kennedy visits a government sponsored low cost housing project and attends Mass service during his visit to Mexico.
President John F. Kennedy visits Mexico. The President of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy moves in a motorcade through the streets followed by a ticker tape parade. Civilians lined up on either side of the street cheer. They hold banners. A luncheon is organized in honor of President Kennedy. The President addresses a gathering. Dignitaries raise a toast. He visits the site of a government sponsored low cost housing project. Residents shake hands with the President. American and Mexican flags flutter in wind from a building. Portraits of Kennedy and Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos placed on buildings. President Kennedy meets Mexican officials during a table conference. They discuss new measures to reduce contamination in the Colorado River. He visits tombs of Mexican Heroes. An archbishop prays for the success of the President's visit during a Mass service. President Kennedy get in a car and heads for an airport. Location: Mexico. Date: July 2, 1962.
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President John F. Kennedy's visit to Mexico was a resounding diplomatic success, characterized by an unprecedentedly warm reception from millions of citizens. The trip focused on reinforcing mutual respect for national independence and strengthening ties through personal diplomacy and strategic agreements.
A president's visit to Mexico is marked
by the most tumultuous reception ever recorded, Mr. Kennedy.
It's a big, warm, noisy ovation, packed with emotion.
Long-time residents say nothing like it has ever occurred before
in this capital of Latin American exuberance.
Estimates of the crowd on the route from the airport
to the city set the number cheering the president at two million.
The nine-mile ride from the airport to President Adolfo
López Mateo's residence takes an hour and 18 minutes,
and at no point was there one untoward incident
or an anti-American sign.
From the moment of his arrival, it was a triumph for Mr. Kennedy.
The first formal event is a luncheon in his honor,
and the President sets the tone of his visit and wins immediate acclaim
by pointing out that the United States was determined
to reinforce the inter-American principle
of absolute respect for the independence of every nation.
Despite an over-eager Army technician,
he is able to offer a toast to the traditions that
have made
the two countries friends.
Everywhere, crowds turn out to cheer Mr. Kennedy.
At a visit to a government-sponsored low-cost
housing project, the president insists
on stepping from the platform to shake hands with the residents.
It's a gesture that brings forth even warmer cheers.
The President said that the kind of revolution Latin America
needed consisted of decent homes, jobs, and education.
He added that he had seen many housing projects, but nothing like this.
The visit has more of an air of fiesta than a state occasion.
The two leaders hold a series of talks that total five hours,
and they are able to resolve many of the differences between
the two countries, although some problems still remain.
They agree on new measures to reduce contamination
in the Colorado River by the United States, a river that irrigates much
of Mexico's farmlands, and the U.S. also extended a $20 million loan.
Mr. Kennedy begins his second
and final day by laying wreaths at the tombs of two of Mexico's heroes
and then attending Mass at the holiest of that nation's shrines,
the Basilica of Guadalupe.
They are greeted by the primate Archbishop of Mexico, Miguel Gomez,
who later led a prayer in English for the full success
to all efforts made during the President's visit.
After Mass, the Kennedys head for the airport
and then home to Washington.
Last week, there was uncertainty in Capitol circles about
the president's reception in Mexico.
It turned out to be one of his greatest triumphs in personal diplomacy.
