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JFK AND CUBAN CIGARS
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JFK AND CUBAN CIGARS  She is smoking a cigar. I’m not sure if it’s a Cuban cigar or not. It is a myth that the best Cuban cigars are rolled on the thighs of virgin women. They are made in the many cigar factories scattered across Cuba and they are rolled by a rolling machine. Below is an extract from an article, ‘Great Moments: Kennedy, Cuba and Cigars’, written by Pierre Salinger and published in the Autumn 1992 issue of Cigar Aficionado. Salinger was an aide to the US President, John F Kennedy. “... I would have to wait until I was almost 35 years old before I started to work for a rising young American politician named John Kennedy, who liked to smoke Petit Upmann Cuban cigars. Working around him, I felt I had no choice but to upgrade my smoke of choice to a Cuban. I've smoked them ever since. Shortly after I entered the White House in 1961, a series of dramatic events occurred. In April, 1961, the United States went through the disastrous error of the Bay of Pigs, where Cuban exiles with the help of the United States government tried to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. Several months later, the President called me into his office in the early evening. ‘Pierre, I need some help,’ he said solemnly. ‘I'll be glad to do anything I can Mr. President,’ I replied. ‘I need a lot of cigars.’ ‘How many, Mr. President?’ ‘About 1,000 Petit Upmanns.’ I shuddered a bit, although I kept my reaction to myself. ‘And, when do you need them, Mr. President?’ ‘Tomorrow morning.’ I walked out of the office wondering if I would succeed. But since I was now a solid Cuban cigar smoker, I knew a lot of stores, and I worked on the problem into the evening. The next morning, I walked into my White House office at about 8 a.m., and the direct line from the President's office was already ringing. He asked me to come in immediately. ‘How did you do Pierre?’ he asked, as I walked through the door. ‘Very well,’ I answered. In fact, I'd gotten 1,200 cigars. Kennedy smiled, and opened up his desk. He took out a long paper which he immediately signed. It was the decree banning all Cuban products from the United States. Cuban cigars were now illegal in our country.” President Kennedy waited until he got his Cuban cigars before signing the order to ban Cuban products being bought and sold in the US! This is not a myth. Are you a cigar smoker? If not, do you like the smell of cigar smoke? My parents’ generation often pondered over the question, ‘where were you when Kennedy was assassinated?’. For my generation, it’s more where were you when Princess Diana died, when John Lennon was shot, or when Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister?. Do you have any ‘where were you?’ moments? |
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Mine are "where were you when the Challenger exploded?" and "where were you when the planes hit the towers?".
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Not a cigar smoker! Don't care for cigar smoke! My where were you moments are: Planes hitting the towers Challenger exploding Columbia's destruction on re-entry.
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Mine are "where were you when the Challenger exploded?" and "where were you when the planes hit the towers?".
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Not a cigar smoker! Don't care for cigar smoke! My where were you moments are: Planes hitting the towers Challenger exploding Columbia's destruction on re-entry. I remember the Challenger and Columbia accidents, but not in the same way as 9/11, Princess Diana's death or Thatcher's resignation.
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On the day Princess Diana died, I was in a hotel in Washington DC. The breakfast waitress told me. To my shame, I laughed as I'm a republican, but the waitress reminded me that she was also a mother and my laughter was rightly brought to an end. Lots of Americans offered their condolences to me that day.
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