1909 President Taft Visit to El Paso Texas photo postcard Post Office
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Real photo postcard (RPPC) titled, "Post Office El Paso Tex." The back has written, "U. S. Customs house Oct. 16 1909 Decorated in honor of Taft - Diez Meet. El Paso." and, "This photo made by Jim. A. Alexander, El Paso, Texas".According to the handbook of texas online, "The meeting of presidents William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez on October 16, 1909, the first in history between a president of the United States and a president of Mexico, was described by the local press as the "Most Eventful Diplomatic Event in the History of the Two Nations." An El Paso historian has added that it was a "veritable pageant of military splendor, social brilliance, courtly formality, official protocol, and patriotic fervor." In June 1909 President Taft, desiring an expression from the Díaz government of its continued support of American investments in Mexico, wrote that he was planning a trip to the Southwest and suggested a meeting with the Mexican president at El Paso or some other convenient place on the border. President Díaz readily accepted Taft's invitation to meet in El Paso in October 1909, since he was convinced that his personal appearance in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez area, where there had been significant opposition to his regime, would restore his lost popularity and remind his countrymen that in spite
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