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By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide to 20th Century History since 1997

As a Young Boy, Fidel Castro Wrote a Letter to Franklin Roosevelt

Thursday June 17, 2004
When Cuban leader Fidel Castro was just 12 years old, he wrote a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt. In the letter dated November 6, 1940, Castro asked the President, "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." The letter was found recently at the National Archives along with several other interesting letters from children to the president.

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October 18, 2006 at 10:15 pm
(1) Jovanna Mitchell says:

I think that this so sweet because atleast he tries to learn something of our language and it’s hard.

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