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oa 0-20 (Rev. 1-26-66) r . -~-. Tolson ; ® DeLoach Mohr _. i Casper Callahan Conrad Felt 2 Gale i Wd i” Posen — \- Sullivan #4 ; ws Tavel _ A i Trotter f ne an he Tele. Room — a WV 7 ae Holmes ——______ “ i g/l Gandy | , UPI-199 i (JOHNSON TRIP) oO ' (' EXICG CITY--NEXICO TODAY TERMED PRESIDENT JOFNSON'S DECISICN TO ) VISIT THIS COUNTRY A "GESTURE OF FRIENDSHIP" BY THE U.S. TOWARD ALL § LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS, TEE STATEMENT VAS MADE BY FOREIGN SECRETARY ANTCNIO CARILLC FLORES WENO SAIB HE DID NOT KNOW WFY JOHNSON WAS VISITING MEXICO AT THIS TIVE, WRUT HIS DECISION HAS BEEN RECEIVED WITH GREAT PLEASURE..." JOFNSON'S SURPPISE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS RECEIVED HERE GENERALLY WITH PLEASURE, BUT ALSO WITH SOME SKEPTICISM, THE GXEPTICISM WAS SUMMED UP IN LA PRENSA WHICH EDITOPIALLY COMVENTED THAT JORNSCN'S VISIT WAS "STRANGE...VERY STRANGE", AND a ASKED: “WHY TS TEE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMING PERE?" CARILLO FLORES EMPHASIZED THAT JCHNSCN'S VISIT VAS NCT AN OFFICIAL ONE ALTHOUGH PRESIDENT GUSTAVO DIAZ CRDAZ WILL GREET HIM AT 1E AIRPORT. | "wT THINK PERHAPS MR, JOHNSON FELT THE URGE TO PAY PERSONAL HOMAGE ‘TC THE EXTRAORDINARY FIGURE OF LINCOLN, THE MOST REPRESENTATIVE OF ‘ALL NCPTE AMERICANS," CARPILLC FLORES SAID. . b/13 --TS332PES : Mes Lynden fy STohw san 705 - pst PE a on We me elD ALL INFORMATION CONTAIIED MERERN, S_UNCLASSIMED | pate GLEFOS. av aP- 2 / J0EAS IF 8 Fy A _ NOT FRGORDED 176 APR 1G 1966 51 APR s 1966 WASHINGTON CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE aS Or ae