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okay out of all the people you've met in

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your lifetime who's had the most

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positive impact on you and why Fidel

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Castro

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okay Fidel Castro is the greatest man I

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ever met by several miles and I've met

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many great

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people but Fidel Castro thankfully is

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still with us uh I'll give you a copy of

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my my biography of

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him is the most inspiring the most

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charismatic the

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most

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wise and the most

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tireless of all the people I've ever met

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he's my real

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hero he told

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me um let me tell you the story when I

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went to the

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Senate not only did I have a Triumph in

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the debating chamber I had another

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Triumph you know that Cuban tobacco is

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illegal in the United States because of

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the 50-year embargo against Cuba that

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the United States has maintained to try

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and destroy the Cuban Revolution yeah

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and it's a no smoking zone so I lit up a

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Cuban cigar inside the American Senate

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building live on CNN

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television and when I got back here the

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Cuban Ambassador called me and said that

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he had a letter to deliver from the

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commandante from Fidel I said please

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bring it and the letter said I ordered

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you 20 years ago to stop smoking because

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we needed you to keep your health and

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you defied me as I saw alive on CNN from

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the US

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Senate at least it was a Cuban cigar

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that's the only defense I had this is

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the kind of man he is instead of being

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happy that I smoked a Havana cigar in

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the in the Senate he was angry that I

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had not uh followed his order to stop

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smoking in order to uh secure my health

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m you had um your best interest at heart

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which is yeah how important is it to

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make