Until the Cuban fiasco and the Communist military victories in Laos, almost any observer would have said that President Kennedy had blended a program that respected, generally, the opinions voiced both by Mr. Nixon and the professors.

At one time, while still under the impression that he was dealing with a Cuban plot, the President talked about invoking a total embargo on trade with Cuba.

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

Cuban State Council Vice President Carlos Lage declared in 2007 that Cuba would receive 1, 142 more Chinese buses for urban transport before years end

The United States had been embarrassed publicly by the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961, which had been launched under President John F. Kennedy by CIA-trained forces of Cuban exiles.

In January 1962, General Edward Lansdale described plans to overthrow the Cuban Government in a top-secret report ( partially declassified 1989 ), addressed to President Kennedy and officials involved with Operation Mongoose.

On October 7, Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós spoke at the UN General Assembly: " If ... we are attacked, we will defend ourselves.

East-West tensions increased during the first term of U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( 1981 – 1985 ), reaching levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as Reagan increased US military spending to 7 % of the GDP.

Following the 1933 Cuban Revolution, led by Fulgencio Batista, which overthrew President Gerardo Machado, Alberto Arnaz was jailed and all of his property was confiscated.

U. S. President Carter initially hoped that continued American aid to the new government would keep the Sandinistas from forming a doctrinaire Marxist-Leninist government aligned with the Soviet bloc, but the Carter administration allotted the Sandinistas minimal funding to start them off, and the Sandinistas resolutely turned away from the U. S., investing Cuban and East European assistance into a new army of 75, 000.

* 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U. S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

* 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval " quarantine " of the Communist nation.

* 1882 – Ramón Grau, Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba ( d. 1969 )

* August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma requests United States intervention.

** U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the use of $ 1. 0 million for the relief and resettlement of Cuban refugees, who had been arriving in Florida at the rate of about 1, 000 per week.

* November 20 – The Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U. S. President John F. Kennedy ends the blockade of the Caribbean nation.

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.

Involving himself in armed rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he concluded that the U. S .- backed Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, who was widely seen as a dictator, had to be overthrown ; to this end he led a failed armed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953.

* 1961-Bay of Pigs Invasion in April ; CIA-trained Cuban exiles invaded Cuba and were defeated at the Bay of Pigs ; captured and ransomed by President Kennedy

The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, LeMay clashed again with U. S. President John F. Kennedy and Defense Secretary McNamara, arguing that he should be allowed to bomb nuclear missile sites in Cuba.

Though commercial concerns continued to dominate foreign policy, conflict resolution was again ventured into when President Arturo Frondizi initiated negotiations between U. S. President John F. Kennedy and Cuban representative Ernesto Che Guevara during a Western Hemisphere summit in Uruguay in August 1961.

According to the Cuban Constitution Article 94, the First Vice President of the Council of State assumes presidential duties upon the illness or death of the president.

On July 31, 2006, during the 2006 Cuban transfer of duties, Fidel Castro delegated his duties as President ( Dictator ) of the Council of state, first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party and the post of commander in chief of the armed forces to first Vice President Raúl Castro.

After Kennedy was assassinated, she approached President Lyndon Johnson, who established the President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke in 1964 with DeBakey at its head.

In 1978, Riperton also received the American Cancer Society's Courage Award which was presented to her at the White House by President Jimmy Carter.

In 1979, he became a member of the U. S. Defense Science Board and the chairman of President Jimmy Carter's President's Cancer Panel.

* Alton Ochsner, faculty, founder of Ochsner Clinic, pioneer anti-smoking advocate, President of the American Cancer Society, President of the American College of Surgeons, President of the International Society of Surgeons, Chairman of the Section on Surgery for the American Medical Association, and President of the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation ; received the Distinguished Service Award of the American Medical Association in 1967 ; popularized blood typing and blood transfusion in Europe ; physician to Argentina's Juan Perón.

He has also served as a Director of the Aitkin Bicentennial Exhibition Centre, Special Olympics Canada, Canadian Cancer Society National Public Relations, the Board of Advisors of the International Association for Students of Economic and Commerce, the National Committee on Lobbyists for the Canadian Bar Association ( CBA ), Life President and class Valedictorian of Dalhousie University, Friends of the London School of Economics and Goodenough College Trust, Board of Governors and Secretary, Patron of Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Victoria B. C.

Harold Elliot Varmus ( born December 18, 1939 ) is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist and the 14th and current Director of the National Cancer Institute, a post he was appointed to by President Barack Obama.

From 2000 to 2010, he was President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

Cotton was a Vice President of the Marie Curie Cancer Care charity.

She is a founding member — and current Vice President of the European Parliament Intergroup MEPs Against Cancer.

She stood down at the 2004 European election at which time she was elected as President of the European Cervical Cancer Association.

Beadle was a member of several learned societies, among which the National Academy of Sciences ( Chairman of Committee on Genetic Effects of Atomic Radiation ), the Genetics Society of America ( President in 1946 ), the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( President in 1955 ), the American Cancer Society ( Chairman of Scientific Advisory Council ), the Royal Society of London, and the Danish Royal Academy of Science.

*" Teamsters President Hospitalized, Reportedly Has Brain Cancer.

He is also Vice-President ( and past President ) of the Council for the Protection of Rural England ( CPRE ) and a trustee of Dimbleby Cancer Care.

* William S. Dalton: Current President and CEO of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.

On May 10, 2007, less than two months before his death, he spoke before the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, an association of corporate executives that was formed when former President George H. W. Bush asked corporate America to do something " bold and venturesome " about cancer.

He is President of the Diversity Works initiative-a programme led by the disability organisation Scope, a Diamond Ambassador for Mencap's WorkRight initiative, designed to spread the message of equality for disabled people, a Vice-President of Birmingham Hospice, and a Patron of Lifecycle UK, Ladies Fighting Breast Cancer and Get A-Head, the cancer charity fighting head and neck diseases.

* Harold Varmus ( Director, National Institutes of Health ; Director, National Cancer Institute ; President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center )

* Leland H. Hartwell ( b. 1939 ), President and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle ; 2001 Nobel Prize laureate

He is a founder and current President of the group MEPs Against Cancer ( MAC ).