By LEE MORAN
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.
Then, seconds
after he was told the next morning that 1,200 of Cuba's finest export had been
bought for him, he signed the decree to ban all of the communist state's
products from the U.S.
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