.NTI0Ng.NTI0Ng

,- THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Mar ch 1 0, 196 6 Dear Mr. Mayor: I am very grateful to you for your warm invitation to watch the Atlanta Braves open the National League baseball season against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the new Atlanta stadium. This is a visit I would truly love to make, but unhappily I am already committed to the opening of the baseball season here · in Washington on April 11. As a result, I have had to carry over many appointments on that day to April 12. Many times what a President does is often decided by what he must do. Thus, I send you my warmest best wishes for a successful baseball season in Atlanta. Although I cannot be with you in per son, my thoughts will be with you. Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr . Mayor of the City of Atlanta G e o r gia �