"JFK smokes cigars from Cuba." Surwillo asked if the president was "indeed still smoking Cuban cigars" and, if so, what his justifications were for doing so. No response was included in the archives.

Pierre Salinger, President Kennedy's head of press, recalled in a 1992 article for Cigar Aficionado magazine how JFK requested "About 1,000 Petit Upmanns" by the following morning. Salinger ...

JFK - they liked smoking their cigars. We even know that Bill Clinton, he enjoyed a good cigar every once in a while," he said. "So I don't know what all the hoopla is about," Nehls said ...