Welles to Roosevelt: A Memorandum on Inter-American Relations, 1933
During the months between his nomination and his inauguration the President made it his practice to invite to visit him at Albany or at Hyde Park a group of advisors to review with him questions of domestic and foreign policy. I sent the President the memorandum of which you have sent me a copy as an outgrowth of one of those meetings during which questions of Hemispheric policy were discussed. I had already for a good many years been given the opportunity of talking over questions of Foreign Policy with the President, particularly questions relating to inter-American relations.l