he over threw a regime, a dictatorship in havana, baptista who many cubans, particularly the castro people felt was a tool of the united states and big american companies. i'm not sure there's anything we could have done to change it. it is an era that to a lot of us of a certain age, we felt was never going to pass, which was that we were going to continue this cold war with the soviet union. now, as i say, the soviet union has dissolved, and one of the reasons i think raoul castro felt he should open up relations with the u.s. in trade was because in the end he was only hurting his own country. >> yeah. >> and it was no support coming, the country was in effect bankrupt because it depends on a sponsor that could no longer afford to sponsor them. i'm not sure it was done out of the goodness of raoul castro's heart but just a sense that this was the only practical way to go. i suppose the answer is that, you know, the cold war came, it went, we won, the communist lost, and this is another symbol of that. >> yeah. what in your opinion is going to be the relationship between the united state