To avoid another embarrassing gift encounter, the President should keep some emergency gifts at the ready for future meetings with dictators, and there are quite a few that come to mind – dictators that is.
5. A Sunoco Gas Card because it’s cheaper than Citgo, H. Chavez.
4. Copland’s Lincoln Portrait . Nearly caused a revolution among the spectators in the 50’s when Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez attended a Copland conducted performance in Caracus.
3. Bananas – the Woody Allen spoof on revolutionaries that should have all self-respecting dictators in stitches.
2. President Obama’s books Dreams From My Father and Audacity of Hope both inscribed “to Hugo with warmest regards”. Obama himself joked that he should have given Chavez a copy of his book.
1. EZ Notes Digital Voice Recorder as Seen on TV, It’s a dictation machine with a built in flashlight and key chain. By one get one free. One for Hugo, the other for Fidel. The perfect gift for the egomaniacs in your life.
And if the President can’t find the EZ Notes Digital Voice Recorder, the one as seen on TV, I think a used Yugo would be a nice gesture.
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