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In May 2002, Jimmy Carter became the first US president in or out of office to visit Cuba, where he was welcomed by the island's communist leader Fidel Castro

Carter and Cuba: A Legacy of Dedicated Diplomacy Toward Normalization

Washington, D.C., January 15, 2025 - The late President Jimmy Carter, who was laid to rest last week after a state funeral in Washington, D.C., adamantly believed that the U.S.

Jan 15, 2025

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One of the U.S. Jupiter missiles in Turkey that Kennedy secretly traded for the removal of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

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President Kennedy with his close friend British Ambassador David Ormsby-Gore

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collage Raul Fidel Castro and Khrushchev

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