Louisianan wrote:Hopal wrote:He writes what Henry said down on a notepad and as Henry is speaking an aide comes into his office to help with the preliminary document on the embargo, seeing the aide come in Claiborne writes on a sticky note "See me after I'm done with this call" before handing it to him. After the aide leaves and the President finishes Claiborne speaks again "So you want this to serve as a kind of warning to the Cubans, exercising some of America's economic might, blowing damage to the Cuban economy to show what America can do, am I right in that analogy? I'll see if we can import brown sugar from other countries and if our allies might be on board with also blowing economic damage to the Cubans. I'll probably be speaking to Latin American and Carribean officials throughout the week. I presume you don't want the perception of American involvement in Cuban invasion plans at this point? Uhhh" he thinks for a moment "Do want to send a direct message to the Cubans about nationalizing oil refineries and any industries where American businesses are involved for that matter? And if so do want it to be public or private? Do what to make the reduction of the brown sugar quote visibly public at all?"
"Exactly right. I want nobody to have a clue when our invasion plan is in the planning process, and I want nobody to know the reduction of the brown sugar imports. I only want the direct message about the nationalizing thing to be public. That way, we can get folks to rally behind us by the time we exercise our invasion plan see?" Henry said writing down a few notes, "I'd actually like to sound stern, and forceful, but make sure it only sounds like a half-threat, not a full one."
"I'll see to it that a public message is made warning the Cubans what the consequences of nationalizing industries would be. And when do you want this message to issued? I assume at the same time the reduction of brown sugar imports are put into effect?"
