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There is even een official day for the friendship of the Dutch and Americans which remembers the day in 1782 when John Adams, later to become the second president of the United States, was received by the States General in The Hague and recognized as Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America. It was also the day that the house he had purchased at Fluwelen Burgwal 18 in The Hague was to become the first American Embassy in the world. But before that the bond between the Dutch and the Americans was that of friendship and economic prosperity. And because of this friendship that is the longest friendly relationship America has with a foreign country, formal President Ronald Reagan declared in 1982, April 19th as the official Dutch-American Friendship Day. We like

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