Ambassador Jorge Bolanos, Chief of Mission of the Cuban Interests Section

Ambassador Jorge Bolanos, Chief of Mission of the Cuban Interests Section and Steve Clemons of the Washington Note and New America Foundation discuss the hopeful future of US-Cuba relations. More history on U.S.S Sequoia Presidential Yacht.

"The Sequoia was the scene of some of America's most historic events: It was used during the Harding administration to enforce Prohibition; Herbert Hoover promoted his use of the Sequoia during the Depression in a misguided effort to elevate the spirit of a starving public; FDR and Eisenhower planned D-day; Truman decided to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and later conducted the world's first nuclear arms control summit; Eisenhower entertained Korean War veterans; Kennedy celebrated his last (46th) birthday party; LBJ lobbied for civil rights legislation, and planned Vietnam War strategy; Nixon negotiated the first arms control treaty with the Soviet Union, and later decided to resign; Gerald Ford conducted cabinet meetings on board; President Ronald W. Reagan met all of the nation's 50 Governors at the Sequoia's gangplank in Richmond, Virginia. Emperor Haile Selassie and other world leaders have also sailed on Sequoia."

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