{"id":2211,"date":"1963-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1963-11-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2211"},"modified":"1963-11-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1963-11-17T00:00:00","slug":"28711171963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1963\/11\/17\/28711171963\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/17\/1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;November 17 [1963]. President [John F.] Kennedy asks French journalist Jean Daniel to tell [Fidel] Castro that he is now ready to negotiate normal relations and drop the embargo. According to former Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, \u2018If Kennedy had lived I am confident that he would have negotiated that agreement and dropped the embargo because he was upset with the way the Soviet Union was playing a strong role in Cuba and Latin America\u2026\u2019\u201d [Con Embargo]<\/p>\n<p><em>Jerry A. 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According to former Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, \u2018If Kennedy had lived I am confident that he would have negotiated that agreement and dropped the embargo because [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1963\/11\/17\/28711171963\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from 11\/17\/1963<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2499,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2005\/06\/29\/5896292005\/","url_meta":{"origin":2211,"position":0},"title":"6\/29\/2005","author":"AmarkData","date":"June 29, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"\"June 29 [2005]. The National Security Archive releases a memo written by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on December 12 1963 (less than a month after President [John F.] Kennedy's assassination), in which he seeks to lift the travel ban to Cuba. He refers to the ban as \u2018inconsistent with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2212,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1963\/12\/12\/29212121963\/","url_meta":{"origin":2211,"position":1},"title":"12\/12\/1963","author":"AmarkData","date":"December 12, 1963","format":false,"excerpt":"\"December 12 [1963]. Less than one month after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy seeks to end the travel ban to Cuba in a memo to Secretary of State Dean Rusk. He refers to the ban as \u2018inconsistent with traditional American liberties,\u2019 and difficult to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2200,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1963\/02\/08\/276281963\/","url_meta":{"origin":2211,"position":2},"title":"2\/8\/1963","author":"AmarkData","date":"February 8, 1963","format":false,"excerpt":"\"1963; February 8. The Kennedy administration prohibits travel to Cuba and makes financial and commercial transactions with Cuba illegal for U.S. citizens.\u201d [Pro Embargo] Jerry A. 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