{"id":248177,"date":"2022-01-18T11:57:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=248177"},"modified":"2022-01-18T11:57:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:57:42","slug":"you-sure-do-drink-here-cal-in-havana-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/you-sure-do-drink-here-cal-in-havana-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"You sure do drink here: Cal in Havana (II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Cuba, President Calvin Coolidge did not give interviews, he only spoke publicly in his speech before the Sixth Conference, delivered at the National Theater, on the sumptuous Paseo del Prado, in front of the Parque Central. Another historic event that not many are aware of also occurred there: the first radio address by a president outside the United States, broadcast throughout the Union by the <em>National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LBE8APPFJk\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/president-cal-in-havana\/\">President Cal in Havana<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;President Cal in Havana&#8221; &#8212; OnCubaNews English\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/president-cal-in-havana\/embed\/#?secret=dnBUK2dTtb#?secret=LBE8APPFJk\" data-secret=\"LBE8APPFJk\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yet the event, writes one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/989326.The_Good_Neighbor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">historian<\/a>, \u201cmigrated from the news sections to the social pages,\u201d and in fact became \u201ca celebration of the lifestyles of the rich and famous.\u201d The American women who were in the theater attested, in their own way, to the effects of the modernization process experienced in Havana thanks to the inconstant magic of sugar, which a play by the Alhambra Theater had baptized as \u201cThe Dance of the Millions,\u201d when in the world market the pound went from 1.9 cents (1914) to 22.5 (1920). According to <em>The New York Times<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>the boxes, the balconies and the orchestra seats were occupied by well-dressed people. The American women said they had never seen \u2014 in Europe or anywhere else \u2014 an event with such well-dressed women. They praised their Cuban sisters, who were present in large numbers, for having a marked taste in fashion, noting that the dresses, for the most part, were the latest creations from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/989326.The_Good_Neighbor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Paris<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The following day, Gerardo Machado organized a banquet for President Coolidge at his estate on the outskirts of Havana; he would also attend a game of jai alai and visit a cane field. In the first case, quite a challenge in the scenario of Prohibition and Puritan values. Historian Joseph R. Conlin explains what the dilemma was for the then President of the United States:<\/p>\n<p><em>American journalists\u2026held their breath. If Coolidge accepted a drink, it would mean a juicy front-page story. If he rebuffed the waiter with classic New England self-righteousness, his Latin American colleagues would take it as another \u201c<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Past-Survey-History-Since\/dp\/113394664X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Big Brother\u201d<\/em><\/a><em> insult.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, a Cuban gastronome appeared in the room with \u201ca large tray of delicate crystal cups with daiquiris \u2014 rum, fresh lemon juice and sugar, all well shaken\u201d \u2014 putting \u201cSilent Cal,\u201d so called because of his proverbial parsimony with words, to the test:<\/p>\n<p><em>As the tray approached him to the left, he slyly turned to the right under the guise of admiring a picture on the wall. The tray moved closer to him. Mr. Coolidge turned another 90 degrees, pointing out to Machado the beauty of tropical greenery. By then he had completed a 360-degree turn, and the incriminating tray had passed behind him. Apparently, he never saw it. His maneuver was a masterpiece of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdayeveningpost.com\/2014\/12\/cuban-conundrum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>evasive<\/em><\/a><em> action.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Coolidge (1928)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OwGPfuICaSY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The incident of the waiter and the tray has been repeated ad nauseam from then to date. But the problem is that this rather friendly story consistent with the puritanism of the silent president leaves a very different one in the dark, in part because it is much more comfortable to repeat than to delve. In an article by Glenn Garvin in <em>The Miami Herald<\/em>, later reproduced in Spanish by <em>El Nuevo Herald<\/em>, Garvin did what no one else did: track down in depth a text by journalist Beverly Smith, Jr., who had covered Coolidge\u2019s trip for the <em>Saturday Evening Post<\/em> in 1928 and confessed thirty years later: \u201cA sizeable group of us went to see the local attractions. Not all of them were of a high cultural level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on his findings, the journalist\/researcher relates:<\/p>\n<p><em>The celebration began when the presidential train, from Washington DC, arrived in Florida and everyone discovered that while the rest of the United States was handcuffed by Prohibition, Key West was, well, Key West.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Its bars weren\u2019t even the underground place known as speakeasies, which required a secret touch or password, to open doors. The train arrived at 10 p.m., and at 6 a.m. reporters and government officials arrived still straggling from Duval Street to their sleeping cars. The drunkards\u2019 singing momentarily turned into sudden shrieks of terror as they crawled under their covers to discover that those who had arrived earlier had put lemon pies on the beds, an act of friendly terrorism. At least one reporter was so completely drunk that he fell into the sea while he was boarding his boat the next morning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Already in Havana, during the welcome ceremony several hookers appeared from a neighborhood not far from the Palace, as well dressed as those who would attend the National Theater. Coolidge:<\/p>\n<p><em>began to wave back at them, particularly a group of seven or eight smartly dressed, heavily made-up girls and their flag-waving chaperone. Instantly, everyone but the President had recognized them as the professional representatives of a nearby brothel. When the frightened Coolidge realized who they were, he huddled in his seat, but soon had to call an assistant to sit next to him and shield him from the roses thrown at him by the crowd.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_248180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248180\" style=\"width: 1050px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248180\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-1-1.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-1-1-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-1-1-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-1-1-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-1-1-750x393.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidents Gerardo Machado and Calvin Coolidge with their wives at a Havana estate. Photo: Archive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The end of the official activity, almost at sunset,<\/p>\n<p><em>left reporters free to practice investigative journalism in Havana bars. Among their discoveries was that Machado\u2019s henchmen had warned owners to remove Coolidge\u2019s portraits, out of respect for the sensitive issue of Prohibition, though they were allowed to leave on the wall posters of pilot Charles Lindbergh, who had joined the trip. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Some of the articles that appeared in American newspapers the next morning seem to make it clear that many of the reporters were somewhat drunk even before reporting their stories in the afternoon\u2026. By late afternoon, they were joined by American officials traveling with the President, delighted at the opportunity to drink legally and openly for the first time since Prohibition went into effect\u2026. As alcohol consumption reached gargantuan proportions, high-ranking Havana police officers came with instructions to make sure the gringos felt welcome.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And continues:<\/p>\n<p><em>To top it all, various members of the group began to spread the word through seedy bars that a reporter from New England who looked a lot like Coolidge was actually the President, which inspired the Cubans\u2019 admiration and numerous offers to buy him drinks. \u201cI suspect that there are still some old Havanans,\u201d Smith wrote in 1959 (sic), \u201cwho believe that outside of his office hours Cal was a merry drinker.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the end:<\/p>\n<p><em>Twenty-four hours later, after Coolidge delivered his Havana speech, he visited Machado\u2019s estate south of Havana and watched a game of jai alai, it was time to return to the ships. Saddened at first by the return to Prohibition, the presidential motorcade received the good news that no one, not even reporters, would have to go through U.S. customs in Key West.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Drawn by the smell of that rampant alcoholic temptation, local liquor producers planted themselves in the hotel lobby in Havana. Almost everyone bought half-gallon bottles of rum. Some even bought additional suitcases to fill them with bottles; reporters whose expense accounts were small shed their clothes to make room for the rum. All of this was brought aboard by knowingly winking Marines, leading many to wonder who had approved the gigantic smuggling operation. \u201cWould it have been, incredibly, Calvin himself, in a fit of the whimsical humor some assumed lay behind his sour Vermont face?\u201d reporter Smith wondered.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The trip was a complete success. Former Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes managed to placate a resolution, promoted by the Argentina of Don Hip\u00f3lito Irygoyen, condemning the interference in the internal affairs of those Latin American republics. Hughes broke down out of sheer subtlety: \u201cI would not say intervene, but to interpose temporarily to protect the lives and interests of its citizens.\u201d Gerardo Machado was, of course, on the right side: \u201cThe Monroe Doctrine is, and must remain, the common defense policy for the territorial integrity of America,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_248181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248181\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248181\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-3-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-3-1-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-3-1-1024x894.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-3-1-768x671.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-3-1-750x655.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coolidge-3-1-1140x996.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Archive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSilent Cal\u201d returned to his country pleased with the experience and with everything he learned, including, of course, the National Theater, tropical fruits and the remains of the battleship <em>Maine<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>It does not occur to me to say anything new about the Pan American Conference, everything has already been said. Naturally, our government is delighted with my reception in Havana. One of the most pleasurable opportunities that was offered to me there was to travel to the President\u2019s estate, which gave me the opportunity to travel a good number of miles through the Cuban territory, where I was able to observe the people and see something of the progress that they are achieving.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>History relates that he arrived in Key West aboard the <em>USS Memphis<\/em>, seasick from the journey. In the Oval Office he learned that the Havana City Council had voted to rename 17th Street, in El Vedado, after President Calvin Coolidge. \u201c17th Street,\u201d Alejo Carpentier said in 1925, \u201cis one of the most admired by foreigners who come to enjoy the delights of our mild winters, due to its gallery of sumptuous residences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, like yesterday, Cubans continue to call it by its number.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>TN: Quotes in italics were retranslated from the Spanish.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSilent Cal\u201d returned to his country pleased with the experience and with everything he 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