A story circulated back when Alexander Haig was Secretary of State during President Alzheimer's first term: at a fashionable Georgetown party, Haig was seen to light up an after-dinner stogie from that exotic and embargoed island. "Secretary Haig!" his hostess teased him. "To think of man in your position supporting the Cuban economy!" "I don't consider it supporting their economy," Haig growled. "I look at it as...burning their crops!"
cordially,