Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next morning the President met for nearly two hours with top security aides, mapped the U.S. response to Castro's peevish move. Then, abruptly, he announced he would leave Washington, fly to Texas for the funeral of Mrs. Jesse C. Kellam, a longtime family friend and wife of the manager of Lady Bird's Austin television station...
...whole, never forgetting for a moment that each of our Latin American neighbors is quite different from the other. In relation to Cuba, I am for the liberation of Cuba without firing a shot. I feel that it is wholly possible we soon will be able to shave Castro's beard by means of laser rays...
...just as well, for Oswald was in more trouble. He had lost his job, had tried unsuccessfully to infiltrate a Cuban anti-Castro group, then started handing out pro-Castro propaganda, and was arrested for disturbing the peace. He had also decided to go to Cuba, and then perhaps again to Russia...
...Calling Castro as expert on upheavals, Quijano explained how the Cuban dictator had, for example, taken steps to prevent revolution in the military. Castro's division of the army into three totally separate units has made it "really difficult to conspire," he said...
Quijano traced the history of the Cuban revolution for the more than 40 people at the meeting. He said that with the exceptions of Fidel's brother, Raul Castro, and Che Guevara, minister of finance, the movement until 1959 was "genuine and nationalistic, supported by a large part of the Cuban people." At this time Castro was definitely not a communist, he vestured, although the leader did have Marxist ideas...