TITO LIGHTED THE TOMPUS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AND NIKSON SAID TO HIM: SMOKING IS FORBIDDEN: Reply from Broz was a killer!

Josip Broz was and remains the only one who violated this ban

Posted: 02.08.2017. 08: 54h

http://www.espreso.rs/svet/svastara/169686/tito-je-zapalio-tompus-u-beloj-kuci-a-nikson-mu-je-rekao-pusenje-zabranjeno-odgovor-broza-je-bio-ubitacan

The President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, was a guest of the United States in 1971, and was greeted there with the greatest honors given to a foreign statesman.

Video source:
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxJgEqxIz74

Broz carefully built relations with both the East and the West, developing the entire industry indefinitely, safeguarding the workers' rights and sovereignty of the state.

How much Tito was respected in the world, testify many recordings from his visits to countries across the globe.

However, one of the anecdotes that speaks a lot about this respect was created by the administration in the White House, during a visit in 1971.

Namely, in the White House, smoking was strictly forbidden, and no one thought of burning a cigarette there.

Also, at that time, the intolerance of the regime in Washington atowards Cuba's Fidel Castro was at its height.

Knowing all this, Tito, during the meeting with Nixon, in fron of journalists and photo reporters took out tompus, and set it on fire.

And it's not any tompus. It was Cuban, what was given to him personally by Fidel.

"Mr President, we do not smoke here in the White House," said astonished Nixon.

Tito looked at him, continued to smoke, laughed and said coldly:

- Lucky you!

By the end of the meeting, Nixon did not mention this ban anymore.

A photo of Tito with tompus in the White House see here:

Http://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/president-nixon-looks-on-as-president-tito-of-yugoslavia-news-photo/515399260#washington-president-nixon-looks-on- As-president-tito-of-yugoslavia-picture-id515399260

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