Senator Smith at Guantanamo Naval Air Station, Cuba, 1962
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Senator Margaret Chase Smith, a Maine Republican, stands with Admiral E. John O'Donnell in front of Guantanamo Naval Air Station two months after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The United States and the Soviet Union narrowly avoided nuclear war after U-2 spy planes uncovered a Russian nuclear buildup in Cuba in October, 1962. Afterward Cuban dictator Fidel Castro repeatedly demanded that the United States abandon the Guantanamo Base.
Senator Smith visited the Navy and Marine Corps personnel at Guantanamo in December 1962 and assured them that a U.S. presence would remain in Cuba to better protect the United States and other non-communist countries.
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- Title: Senator Smith at Guantanamo Naval Air Station, Cuba, 1962
- Creator: Margaret Chase Smith Library
- Creation Date: 1962-12-02
- Subject Date: 1962-12-02
- Media: Black and White Photograph
- Dimensions (cm): 25.5 x 20.5
- Local Code: 0934 MCS Guantanamo Bay
- Object Type: Image
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Margaret Chase Smith Library
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LC Subject Headings
United States--Foreign relations--1961-1963
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba)
O'Donnell, E. J. (Edward J.), 1907-1991
Smith, Margaret Chase, 1897-1995
Cuba--Foreign relations--1959-1990
People
O'Donnell, E. John
Chase Smith, Margaret
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