Wednesday, February 8, 2012

John F Kennedy bought 1,200 Cuban cigars hours before he ordered US trade embargo | Mail Online

John F Kennedy bought 1,200 Cuban cigars hours before he ordered US trade embargo | Mail Online: "President John F Kennedy ordered an aide to buy him as many Cuban cigars as he could just hours before he authorised the U.S. trade embargo - which subsequently made them illegal.

Kennedy asked his head of press and fellow cigar smoker Pierre Salinger to obtain '1,000 Petit Upmanns' on February 6, 1962, so he could have them in his hands before they were deemed contraband."

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