plum-soup:oldshowbiz:“Now when Castro came into power, if I’d been President, I’d have picked up the
plum-soup:oldshowbiz:“Now when Castro came into power, if I’d been President, I’d have picked up the phone and called him direct in Havana. I’d have called him up, and I’d have said, ‘Fidel, this is Harry Truman in Washington, and I’d like to have you come up here and have a little talk.’ He’d have come, of course … and I’d have said, ‘Fidel, it looks to me like you’ve had a pretty good revolution down there, and it’s been a long time coming. Now you’re going to need help, and there’s only two places you can go to get it. One’s right here, and the other’s – well, we both know …Now you just tell me what you need, and I’ll see to it that you get it … Now, Fidel, I’ve told you what we’ll do for you. There’s one thing you can do for me. Would get a shave and a haircut and a bath?’ … Of course, that son of a bitch Eisenhower was too damn dumb to do anything like that.” - Harry Trumanthis is my favorite AU tbh lol. Cuba is still kinda communist but also nominally a US allyau where justin trudeau doesn’t exist -- source link