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Amidst Fidel Castro’s communist regime, tightening Cold War tensions that culminated in the nuclear standoff, On February 7th 1962, hours before signing the Cuban trade embargo that prohibited all imports from Cuba, President John F. Kennedy ordered his press secretary, Pierre Salinger, to secure 1,200 of his favorite H. Upmann Petit Coronas. Salinger successfully procured approximately 1,200 to 1,600 of these Cuban cigars before the ban took effect.