President Obama “plans to travel to Cuba next month, the first such visit by a sitting American president in 88 years,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Mr. Obama’s visit would mark a major stride in U.S.-Cuba relations. The last, and only, sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba was Calvin Coolidge in 1928. Relations between the two countries were cut off in 1961, shortly after the Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro. The U.S. has since had an embargo on Cuba.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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