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Amtrak station agent at Dodge City, Kansas, places the expected arrival time of the westbound Southwest Limited on a schedule board as part of his duties, June 1974byThe U.S. National Archives on Flickr.

Night lights, May 1972byThe U.S. National Archives on Flickr.

Sun rays through storm clouds over Grafton, in the farmlands west of Lincoln, May 1973byThe U.S. National Archives on Flickr.

Photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson with the Trumans, 01/20/1966byThe U.S. National Archives on Flickr.

Clark Avenue and Clark Avenue Bridge. Looking East from West 13th Street, Are Obscured by Smoke from Heavy Industry, 07/1973.byThe U.S. National Archives on Flickr.

Great Sand Dunes National Monument, 05/1972.byThe U.S. National Archives on Flickr.

Population and Housing Editors, Negro Section, 1940 - 1941byThe U.S. National Archives on Flickr.

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Letter from Fidel Castro to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 11/06/1940 

Item from Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State. (03/05/1923 - 01/1961)

This letter from tweleve year-old Fidel Castro congratulates President Roosevelt on his re-election and asks the president to send him a ten dollar bill. Presidents receive hundreds of thousands of letters every year from children and adults sharing their concerns and well-wishes with him. 

Source: http://go.usa.gov/j82k

Transcription (Courtesy of the US National Archives Facebook page):

Santiago de Cuba, November 6th 1940

Mr. Franklin Roosevelt
President of the United States:

My good friend Roosevelt:

I don’t know very English, but I know as much as write to you.
I like to hear the radio, and I am very happy, because I heard in it, that you will be President for a new (periodo).
I am twelve years old. I am a boy but I think very much, but I do not think that I am writing to the President of the United States.
If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green american in the letter, because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green american and I would like to have one of them.

My address is:

Sr. Fidel Castro
Colegio de Dolores
Santiago de Cuba
Oriente Cuba

I don’t know very English but I know very much Spanish and I suppose you don’t know very Spanish but you know very English because you are American but I am not American.

Thank you very much
Good by. Your friend,

F. Castro (signed)
Fidel Castro