New York on December 17. Attwood was simply told by Johnson at lunch that “he’d read my chronological account of our Cuban initiative ‘with interest.’”[182] “And that was it,” Attwood wrote two decades later in describing the end of “the Cuban connection.”[183] It had in fact died on November 22, 1963, with John Kennedy. It would not be revived by any other U.S. president in the twentieth century.