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WILLIAMS: "I was covering Jesse Jackson’s 1984 campaign and Jackson went through Havana and had a meeting with Castro. You are exactly right. Castro had a speech during Jackson’s visit the visit lasted 11 hours. People would come and go but Castro would still be Specking. At this very end Jackson had a plane and Castro came on the plane and he made a point of introducing me to Castro. I was surprised and then he joked that I wanted to pull Fidel’s beard. And I was a — of a reporter. One time meeting Fidel, what sticks in my mind are two things. One is the meriel boat lift. 1908. About more than 100,000 Cubans were pushed off the island into Miami. Some people were held at the Orange bowl. Then it became like a refugee camp under a highway. I think it was interstate 95 I think it was interstate 95 is it was a mess. How do you deal with it? Castro had emptied the jails and mental institutions in addition to people who simply wanted to get out of there. I thought at that point things had broken down. That was evident how he had be total dictator and menace to his own people."