they had orders to that effect straight from President Kennedy, who thought at first, as did most others, that it was four followers of Cuba's Fidel Castro who had taken over the 707.

* 1926 – Fidel Castro, Cuban lawyer and politician, 15th President of Cuba

* 1956 – Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.

Soon after Fidel Castro declared Cuba a socialist state, Costa Rican President Mario Echandi ended diplomatic relations on 10 September 1961 with the island through Executive Decree Number 2, in compliance with sanctions placed on Cuba by the Organization of American States.

The following year, Raúl Castro became Acting President, replacing his brother as the de facto leader of the country.

In a letter dated 18 February 2008, Castro announced that he would not accept the positions of president and commander in chief at the 24 February 2008 National Assembly meetings, saying " I will not aspire nor accept — I repeat I will not aspire or accept — the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief.

On 6 May 2005, President Fidel Castro reiterated that the island nation would not " be part of a disgraceful institution that has only humiliated the honor of Latin American nations ".

* 1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.

* 2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.

* 1949 – Noli de Castro, Filipino journalist and politician, 14th Vice President of the Philippines

* 2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

* 2004 – Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned.

Former President Fidel Castro of Cuba also criticized the use of hostage-taking by the guerrillas as " objectively cruel " and suggested that the group free all of its prisoners and hostages.

* 1818 – José María Castro Madriz, Costa Rican lawyer, academic, diplomat, and politician, 1st President of Costa Rica ( d. 1892 )

At the UN September 2001 World Conference against Racism, when the issue of compensation for colonialism and slavery arose in the agenda, Fidel Castro, the President of Cuba, advocated the Tobin Tax to address that issue.

* September 1 – José María Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica and founder of the republic ( d. 1892 )

* July 6 – Noli de Castro, Filipino broadcast journalist and radio commentator, Vice President of the Philippines

** Raúl Castro, President of Cuba

* April 4 – José María Castro Madriz, President of Costa Rica ( b. 1818 )

** Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a 5-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first U. S. President, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; born August 13, 1926 ) is a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008.

Amidst failing health, in 2006 Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice-President Raúl Castro, who then became President when Fidel stepped down in 2008.

Central Virginia Labor Council President Walter Fore believes this is due to lack of white-collar jobs.

During the campaign for Vice President, Olivier advocated smaller government, “ We have to reduce the size of the federal government back to the size of its constitutional limits .” He said he would like the government to return U. S. troops from abroad and make the Department of Defense get back to defending us, and not be a Department of Offense that bombs little countries .” “ I don ’ t believe we should be the world ’ s policeman .” He believes that U. S. foreign policy should be governed by an avoidance of “ entangling alliances .” “ The conflicts this country has entered into cause others to look badly upon America.

In addition to criticizing the policies of former United States President George W. Bush and, in his view, the administration's exploitation of the 9 / 11 terrorist attacks, Pilger believes former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to be just as responsible as President Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and occupation of Iraq.

Walt believes that President Barack Obama erred by breaking with the principles in his Cairo speech by allowing continued Israeli settlement activity and by participating in a " well-coordinated assault " against the Goldstone Report.

Founder and President Carlo Petrini, believes " everyone has the right to good, clean and fair food.

Section 3 of the amendment set forth a procedure whereby a President who believes he will be temporarily unable to perform the duties of his office may declare himself " unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.

However, some observers believed that the PRC cared less about who became the President of the ROC, than that this person establish economic linkages which Beijing believes would bind Taiwan irrevocably to the Mainland.

# The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.

#* The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the Soviet Government was not involved in the assassination of President Kennedy.

#* The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the Cuban Government was not involved in the assassination of President Kennedy.

#* The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that anti-Castro Cuban groups, as groups, were not involved in the assassination of President Kennedy, but that the available evidence does not preclude the possibility that individual members may have been involved.

#* The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the national syndicate of organized crime, as a group, was not involved in the assassination of President Kennedy, but that the available evidence does not preclude the possibility that individual members may have been involved.

#* The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Central Intelligence Agency were not involved in the assassination of President Kennedy.

The historian Robert Utley believes that the Modoc War and the Great Sioux War a few years later, undermined public confidence in President Grant's peace policy.

Santorum's comments evoked responses ranging from George W. Bush's remark, relayed through spokesperson Ari Fleischer, that " the President believes that the senator is an inclusive man ", to sharp criticism from Howard Dean that " gay-bashing is not a legitimate public policy discussion ; it is immoral ", to conservative groups such as the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America who came to Santorum's defense.

On Monday, April 16, 2007, after the shootings at Virginia Tech, and after President Bush's press secretary Dana Perino said, " The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed ," McCarthy issued a press release calling for " legislation to prevent further acts of gun violence.

But on March 20, 2011, the day after the NATO strikes to enforce the no-fly-zone began, she expressed a different view in a press release: " I am concerned that the President has yet to clearly define for the American people what vital United States security interests he believes are currently at stake in Libya.

LCV strongly opposed many of President George W. Bush's policies which it believes adversely affect the environment.

* Sheridan was President Santiago's second choice to command Babylon 5 after Sinclair ; the new President, Morgan Clark, likes him because he believes he will be tougher in dealing with alien races on the station than Sinclair was.

Former President Bill Clinton said on the 9 / 18 / 06 Daily Show that he thinks the Republican Party believes in polarization.

In theory the ordinary referendum provides a means by which the Seanad ( with the agreement of the President ) can overrule the Dáil if it believes that the lower house is defying the wishes of voters.

In the letter, he described to Obama how he believes social security is important and urged the President to increase its budget in the upcoming year.

David Watkins, President of Watkins Partners, said " Metrocenter has bottomed out ; its so close to being a dead mall without being a dead mall " but he believes his plan will stabilize the mall and has plans to eventually purchase the entire mall.