Posted on 05/12/2002 3:04:07 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"Wayne Smith,the chief U.S. diplomat to Havana during the Carter administration, said he didn't expect "any miracles." But he said "Carter cannot achieve less than (President) Bush has, which has been zero."
Looks like everyone has high hopes for this trip - NOT! And don't you love the little dig on the Prez who has nothing to do but concern himself with Cuba's aging dictator.
I just caught the remarks of Jimmy Carter at the Havana airport.
What a joke!!!
He's looking forward to seeing Cuba's advances in education and health care. Where has this guy been for 40 years.? OUT TO LUNCH!!
What garbage...
The opening paragraph is totally without merit, what follows is a figment of someones imagination...
I hope Peanut Carter has a good explanation as to why Castros sister and two of his children live in the United states.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/jan-june98/clinton_1-21.html
"JIM LEHRER: Mr. President, welcome.
PRESIDENT CLINTON: Thank you. Jim.
JIM LEHRER: The news of this day is that Keneth Starr, independent counsel, is investigating allegations that you suborn perjury by encouraging a 24-year-old woman, former White House intern, to lie under oath in a civil deposition about her having had an affair with you. Mr. President, is that true?
PRESIDENT CLINTON: "There is no improper relationship" There is no improper relationship and I intend to cooperate with this inquiry, but that is not true.
JIM LEHRER: No improper relationship, define what you mean by that.
PRESIDENT CLINTON: I think you know what it means. It means that there is not a sexual relationship, an improper sexual relationship or any other kind of improper relationship.
JIM LEHRER: You had no sexual relationship with this young woman?
PRESIDENT CLINTON: There is not a sexual relationship. That is accurate. We are doing our best to cooperate here, but we don't know much yet, and that's all I can say now. What I'm trying to do is to contain my natural impulses and get back to work. It's important we cooperate. I will cooperate, but I want to focus on the work at hand.
JIM LEHRER: Just for the record, make sure I understand what your answer means and there is no ambiguity about it --
PRESIDENT CLINTON: There is no ambiguity.
JIM LEHRER: You had no conversations with this woman, Monica Lewinsky, about her testimony, possible testimony, before -- in giving a deposition?
PRESIDENT CLINTON: I did not urge anyone to saying anything that was untrue. That's my statement to you.
JIM LEHRER: Did you talk to -- excuse me.
PRESIDENT CLINTON: Beyond that, I think it's very important that we let the investigation take its course. But I want you to know that that is my clear position. I didn't ask anyone to go in there and say something that is not true.
JIM LEHRER: What about your having -- another one of the allegations is that you may have asked or the allegation has been investigated that you asked your friend, Vernon Jordan, to do that.
PRESIDENT CLINTON: I absolutely did not do that. I can tell you I did not do that. I did not do that. He is in no way involved in trying to get anybody to say anything that is not true at my request. I didn't do that. Now, I don't know what else to tell you. I don't even know, all I know is what I've read here. But I'm going to cooperate. I didn't ask anybody not to tell the truth. There is no improper relationship. The allegations I have read are not true. I do not know what the basis of them is other than just what you know. We'll just have to wait and see, and I will be vigorous at it but I have got to get back to the work of the country. I was up past midnight with Prime Minister Netanyahu last night , I've got Mr. Arafat coming in. We have got action all over the world and the state of the union to world to deal with. I will do my best to cooperate with this just as I have through every other issue over the past several years, but I have got to get to work.
JIM LEHRER: Would you acknowledge though Mr President, this is very serious business, this charge against you that has been made?
PRESIDENT CLINTON: And I will cooperate with the investigation.
JIM LEHRER: What's going on? If it's not true, that means that somebody made this up. Is that --
PRESIDENT CLINTON: Look, you know as much about this as I do right now. We'll just have to look into it and cooperate, and we'll see. But meanwhile, I've got to go on with the work of the country. I got hired to help the rest of the American people.
The Pope visits Cuba
JIM LEHRER: Speaking of the work of the country, other news today, the Pope is arriving in Cuba almost as we speak.
PRESIDENT CLINTON: Good thing.
JIM LEHRER: All right. Has the time come maybe for the United States to also bury some economic and political hatchets with Cuba? ........................"
Jan 21, 1998
Backhoe, thanks for the memories!
Have you ever seen The National Security Archive and/or The Digital National Security Archive?
Here's a link to their Cuba Documentation Project.
They have declassified documents regarding The ULTRASENSITIVE Bay of Pigs, Kennedy and Castro: The Secret Quest for Accommodation, The Death of Che Guevara: Declassified, and Béisbol Diplomacy with Cuba.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Bump!
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