It’s easy to say, but it’s been six very hard decades that began with disconcerting lightness and the belief that the United States government’s blockade of Cuba would not last long—a couple of years, maybe.
On February 2, 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy called his press secretary, Pierre Salinger, and gave him an urgent task: “I need a lot of [Cuban] cigars.” “How many, Mr. President?” “About a thousand,” Kennedy replied. Salinger visited the best-stocked stores in Washington and got 1,200 H. Upmann Petit Corona cigars rolled by hand in the fertile plains of Pinar del Río, at the western end of the island.
every time i remember that this happened i lose my mind all over again
happy mooninite panic day
Ha ha, remember how this was also directly responsible for the total overhaul of Cartoon Network by bringing in new management and led to the dark ages where there was that one horrible period of time where Cartoon Network didn’t air any new cartoons for MONTHS because the new president of the company actually hated cartoons, and was pushing all those live action shows and canceled the anime time blocks and completely wiped Toonami from the lineup until Adult Swim was able to salvage it like a decade later?
