<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=474080" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The President I Nearly Met</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once, I nearly met a President </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a very hot morning when we docked in port of Prince. Papa Doc was <br>in power then, the president of Haiti, a nice man who gave coins to the poor. <br>Onboard came the usual gang of uniformed official who wanted whisky and <br>cigarettes before any papers were signed. Amongst them Tonton Macute, <br>men in slacks, summer shirts concealing side arms, sunglasses worn day or <br>night; Papa Doc’s men looking after things. One of them offered to take me <br>ashore show where the best whore was, I declined have an aversion for guns. <br>It was a long hot night all portholes and doors closed, frantic people trying <br>to sneak onboard to get away from this sunlit Island. The pilot came at noon <br>to take us out, an intelligent man with eyes who had seen it all, he spoke <br>English, I asked him about Papa Doc. He paused and said: “our president is <br>a very nice man when he visits villages he has bags of coins whish he strew <br>on the road for the poor to pick up from the dust, and with desperate hearts <br>they are grateful for what he gives them.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oskar+Hansen">Oskar Hansen</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=474080" data-title="The President I Nearly Met de Oskar Hansen" data-description="Once, I nearly met a President It was a very hot morning when we docked in port of Prince. Papa Doc was in power then, the president of Haiti, a nice man who gave coins to the poor. Onboard came the usual gang of uniformed official who wanted ..."></div> </div> </div>

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