Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger addresses the National Press Club, February 10, 1998:

"[Cuban president Fidel] Castro is a very interesting boss, one of the most interesting in the entire history of the world. In many ways, he doesn't make decisions, he delegates much more. And when he was younger, he would hop into a helicopter and fly unannounced to a factory somewhere that was in trouble, and all of a sudden the factory just came to a stop, everybody was standing around. He'd stand up in the helicopter and say, "What's gone wrong here?" And rank-and-file people would speak out.

And an hour later, they'd set up some subcommittees somewhere to try to straighten what was going wrong—an extraordinary way of governing.

But I am worried about, as everybody who is concerned for the future of Cuba is, [is] what's going to happen when this extraordinary man is no longer around?

[Ed.: Castro is also notorious for his excursions into fields well beyond the realm of his expertise. Following his suggestions for improvement, Cuban geneticists crossed two varieties of cow—one of which produced tasty beef and the other of which produced abundant milk—only to produce cows that yielded neither.]

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