Broad-shouldered, stolid General Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo, President of Bolivia, last week led off a parade of foreign chiefs of state on the Roosevelt guest list.* He met his host on the south lawn of the White House, that evening was guest of honor at a state dinner.
What the President of the U.S. said to the President of Bolivia that evening paved the way for a Rooseveltian crack at the Coolidge era. Two days later at his press conference Mr. Roosevelt said happily that he had apologized for something that happened around...
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