Like the Last President to Visit Cuba, Obama Seeks a Change

The New York Times: WASHINGTON — Imagine an American president in his final year in office, making a historic and carefully choreographed trip to Cuba to extend a hand of friendship to an island neighbor after decades of hostility and mistrust.

Long before President Obama had the idea, Calvin Coolidge made the journey to Cuba in 1928 — his only foreign trip as president — to address a conference of Western Hemisphere nations and declare “progress” and good will toward Cuba after a long period of strain. No sitting United States president has returned since.

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