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Former President Barack Obama could once again be president, but this time it would be as the president of Harvard University.

The Boston Globe has thrown his name into the ring as a possible successor to replace current Harvard President Drew Faust, the school's first female president who announced this week she is planning to step down from the high profile role.

While the paper said it's possible the university decides to give the job to someone already at the school, they could look at alums as well.

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Barack Obama, graduate of Harvard Law School '91, is photographed on campus after was named head of the Harvard Law Review in 1990.

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Barack Obama poses in the office of The Harvard Law Review on Monday, Feb. 5, 1990, after being named President of The Harvard Law Review.

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Barack Obama, graduate of Harvard Law School '91, is photographed on campus after was named head of the Harvard Law Review in 1990.

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Barack Obama, graduate of Harvard Law School 1991 yearbook photo.

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Newly-elected president & former community program dir. Barack Obama.

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US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is seen with his wife Michelle in a family snapshot from their October 18, 1992 wedding day released by Obama's US presidential campaign, February 4, 2008. Obama, now a 46-year-old first-term U.S. senator from Illinois who would be the first black US president if elected, heads into Super Tuesday's slate of 22 Democratic state primaries and caucuses in a tight race with Hillary Clinton to become the party's presidential nominee.

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Barack Obama as student at Harvard university, c. 1992

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In this May 31, 2002 file photograph, state senator Barack Obama from Chicago is pictured during session in the senate chambers in Springfield, Illinois. As Democratic presidential hopeful in the 2008 campaign, Obama is considered the 'Great Communicator in Training.'

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Illinois U.S. Senate candidate Democrat Barack Obama (2nd R), wife Michelle and their daughters Malia (R), 3, and Sasha (L), 6, spend time in their Chicago hotel room, November 2, 2004. Obama faces Republican candidate Alan Keys in the first Senate race with two African American candidates.

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Barack Obama, candidate for a Senate seat in Illinois and one of the keynote speakers of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, addresses delegates during the second night of the event at the FleetCenter in Boston, July 27, 2004. More than 4,000 delegates to the convention will nominate John Kerry on Wednesday to challenge President George W. Bush in a November battle for the White House that is essentially a dead heat.

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Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in Illinois, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama wave to the crowd at the Democratic National Convention at the Fleet Center in Boston, Massachusetts, Tuesday, July 27, 2004.

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State Senator from Ill. and U.S. Senate Candidate Barack Obama keynote speaker Tuesday night at the DNC the second night.

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Barack Obama, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Illinois, smiles as he finishes up his sound check on the podium at the FleetCenter, site of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, July 27, 2004. Obama is the keynote speaker for the second night of the convention, which will also feature a speech by Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry.

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Senate candidate Barack Obama, D-Il., the night before the Democratic National Convention 2004 in front of the Illinois delegation party at the Ye Olde Oyster House in Boston, Ma.

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Democratic Convention Keynote speaker and Illinois Senate candidate Barack Obama hugs a supporter before speaking at the League of Conservation Voters Environmental Victory Rally at Christopher Columbus Park July 27, 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts. Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) is expected to accept his party's nomination later in the week.

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Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama speaks to the media September 15, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama unveiled his proposal to make college education more affordable and accessible to working families and their children.

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Candidate for the U.S. Senate Barack Obama (D-IL) (L) holding his daughter Malia with wife Michelle and youngest daughter Sasha (R) celebrate his victory with supporters over Repulican rival Alan Keyes November 2, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama was expected to easily defeat Keyes in this first ever senate race featuring two major-party African-American candidates.

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Democratic Senator Barack Obama drives from his home on December 8, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois. The Senator will give the keynote address at the Chicago Economic Club.

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US Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) and his wife Michelle after a swearing in ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. Obama, 43, is the only African-American in the Senate, and the fifth in its history.

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Barack Obama attends the 36th Annual NAACP Image Awards

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Academy awarding-winning actor George Clooney (C) smiles alongside Senator Barack Obama (R)(D-IL) and Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) as he speaks about his recent visit to the Darfur region of Sudan at a Washington press conference April 27, 2006. Clooney and his father, journalist Nick Clooney, have just returned from a week-long trip to southern Sudan and eastern Chad where they met with dozens of individuals affected by the crisis and documented the brutal and worsening conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.

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Then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama, carrying his daughter Sasha and accompanied by William Lay (front R), leave the memorial park of the former United States Embassy, a target of an August 1998 bombing, in Kenya's capital Nairobi, in this file picture taken August 25, 2006. U.S. President Barack Obama, who last visited Kenya as a U.S. senator in 2006, is expected to arrive in Nairobi on July 24, 2015 for a three-day state visit.

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Senator Barack Obama, R, (D-IL) listens to proceedings during a Senate Rules Committee hearing on overhauling lobbying on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 8, 2006. Obama, along with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) and Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) offered their views on lobbying reform to the committee.

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Democratic presidential candidates U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) (L) and U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (R) talk prior to the first debate of the 2008 presidential campaign April 26, 2007 at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. The debate, featuring eight Democratic presidential candidates, comes 263 days before the first ballot will be cast in the Iowa caucus next January.

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Democratic Presidential Candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) with his daughters Malia and Sasha and his wife Michelle vist the Iowa State Fair August 16, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. The fair runs until August 19th and is expected to draw about 1 million people. John Edwards also made a campaign stop at the fair today.

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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen Barack Obama of Illinois addresses a crowd of supporters at a campaign rally, June 24, 2007 at Sunset Station, in San Antonio, Texas. Backstage at the event Sen Obama was joined by Bruce Bowen of the NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs.

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Senator Barack Obama during a July 4th campaign stop with his daughter Sasha, 6, in Beaver Creek, Iowa.

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U.S. Democratic President-elect Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (L) and his running mate, Vice-President-elect Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) wave during their election night rally in Chicago November 4, 2008.

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US Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) wave to the crowd during a campaign rally in Orlando, Florida October 20, 2008.

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U.S. President-elect Barack Obama speaks to the media aboard a military plane at Chicago Midway Airport January 4, 2009 before flying to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington. Obama is moving to Washington 16 days before being sworn in as the 44th President of the United States on January 20.

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U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dance at the Home States Ball in Washington January 20, 2009. Obama took power as the first black U.S. president on Tuesday and quickly turned the page on the Bush years, urging Americans to rally to end the worst economic crisis in generations and repair the U.S. image abroad. Michelle Obama is wearing a custom-made dress by Taiwanese designer Jason Wu.

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U.S. President Barack Obama departs Andrews Air Force Base in Washington enroute to Copenhagen to promote Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games October 1, 2009. No incumbent U.S. President has ever addressed an IOC session before. Obama is trying to woo International Olympic Committee (IOC) members and is poised to make phone calls on his flight to Denmark to urge them to pick Chicago as host of the 2016 Summer Games.

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U.S. President Barack Obama smiles alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel during their press conference at the Rathous (City Hall) in Baden-Baden, Germany, April 3, 2009. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) military alliance is celebrating its 60th anniversary this week at a summit co-hosted by Germany and France.

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U.S. President Barack Obama laughs during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, June 23, 2009.

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US President Barack Obama gestures toward the crowd after playing a round of golf at the Mid Pacific Country Club in Kailua, Hawaii, on December 31, 2009. The First Family is on vacation.

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U.S. President Barack Obama calls to congratulate new British Prime Minister David Cameron in the Oval Office of the White House May 11, 2010 in Washington, DC. Cameron, the Conservative leader, took over as prime minister after Gordon Brown resigned earlier. The Conservatives won support from the Liberal Democrats after they fell short of a majority in last weeks election.

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US President Barack Obama speaks with small business owners during a meeting at the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, New Jersey, July 28, 2010.

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U.S. President Barack Obama smiles as he tours Skana Aluminum Company, an aluminum manufacturer, as part of his administration's White House to Main Street Tour in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, January 26, 2011.

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US President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden walk to a ceremony to mark the return of the US Forces - Iraq colors December 20, 2011 at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. The event marks the end of the Iraq war after the last US combat troops rolled out of Iraq into Kuwait on December 18.

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U.S. President Barack Obama smiles as he delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 25, 2011. U.S. President Barack Obama challenged Republicans on Tuesday to adopt limited spending cuts and invest in new research and education to generate a job-creating "Sputnik moment" for America in a speech designed to revitalize his leadership.

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U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with House Speaker John Boehner, as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden looks on, upon arriving to address a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington September 8, 2011.

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In this handout provided by the White House, President Barack Obama holds a child after delivering remarks on the American Jobs Act beneath the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge September 22, 2011 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Obama appealed to U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to pass his jobs bill.

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U.S. President Barack Obama does push-ups while playing basketball during the 2012 White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn in Washington April 9, 2012.

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U.S. President Barack Obama applauds retired U.S. Army Captain Florent Groberg, 32, after presenting him with the Medal of Honor during a ceremony at the White House in Washington November 12, 2015. Groberg received the Medal of Honor for his courageous actions while serving as a personal security detachment commander during combat operations in Kunar Province, Afghanistan on August 8, 2012.

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US President Barack Obama boards Air Force One on March 21, 2012 at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Obama is headed to Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Ohio to highlight his energy policy.

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US President Barack Obama makes his way to board Air Force One July 19, 2012 before departure from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Obama was headed to the state of Florida for two days of campaigning.

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Theres no love lost between Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama. The former US president has said he doesnt trust his Russian counterpart, that he has a kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom. Meanwhile, Putin has riled Obama with his backing of Syrias Bashar al-Assad, his annexation of Crimea, and support for rebels in eastern Ukraine.

And yet, despite a near decade of discord, the two granted each other a measure of intimacy allowed to few others: calling each other Barack and Vladimir. (We contacted Obamas office to seek confirmation, and will update with any reply.) So the Russian president revealed to director Oliver Stone in The Putin Interviews, a four-hour marathon, shot between 2015 and 2017, that aired on US cable television this week. That doesnt mean the conversationswhich, Putin says, would take place on the phone without a video link are warm, however. Asked if they are cordial, Putin replied: No, theyre businesslike.

Obama seemingly isnt the only president with whom Putin is on first-name terms. At another point in the documentary he refers to George W. Bush as George, while accusing the US of supporting Chechen rebels in their war against the Russian state in the early 2000s. I think George remembers our conversation, he said, telling Stone that he had confronted Bush about it. Asked how he had felt when Bush (notoriously) told reporters he had got a sense of [Putins] soul, the Russian president said: I felt he was a person you can come to an agreement with, to work things out withor at least thats what Id hoped.

He also had words for the new American president. While denying hacking last years election, Putin said: Of course we felt kindly towards Mr Trumpand we still dobecause he publicly said he was ready to and wanted to restore Russian-American relations. He went on to compliment Trumpalbeit in a somewhat backhanded wayon his intelligent campaign: I also thought he was going too far with some of his campaign speeches but it turned out he was right, he said. He struck a chord in peoples souls and was able to play on that.

However, the Russian leader was more cautious than effusive asked whether theres any hope of change in US-Russian relations with Trump as president. There is hope until the very moment they take us to the cemetery to bury us, he said.

Reflecting on the fact that he is now dealing with his fourth US president, Putin said almost nothing changes with each new incumbent. Life brings some adjustments but everywhere, especially in the United States, we have strong bureaucracies and its bureaucracy that rules the world, he said.

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Republican hopes that the election of President Trump would open the federal government's vaults to investigators probing Obama-era scandals including Fast and Furious and the IRS have died as burrowed-in workers try to "wait out" until the president leaves office, said a top House GOP member.

In a blunt exit interview, retiring Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the outgoing chairman of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, said stonewalling by agencies is just as bad as it was during the Obama era.

"I think if we went to the senior most people, even the president himself, they would be pulling their hair out and they would hate to hear that but within the bowels of the organization, they just seem to circle the wagons and think, oh we just, we can just wait you out. We can just wait you out," he said on the upcoming Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson, airing Sunday.

But Chaffetz, who surprised Washington when he announced his retirement set for June 30, also hit the president, top appointees and even congressional Republicans for refusing to play offense.

"The reality is, there aren't very many people that want to play offense. There aren't many people who say, look, we have a duty and an obligation to fulfill the oversight responsibility that was put in place at the very founding of our country," he said on the news magazine show that airs at 9:30 a.m. on Sinclair stations and also livestreams.

He also puts the blame on Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not helping investigators gain access to documents hidden by the Obama administration.

"The reality is, sadly, I don't see much difference between the Trump administration and the Obama administration. I thought there would be this, these floodgates would open up with all the documents we wanted from the Department of State, the Department of Justice, the Pentagon. In many ways, it's almost worse because we're getting nothing, and that's terribly frustrating. And with all due respect, the attorney general has not changed at all. I find him to be worse than what I saw with Loretta Lynch in terms of releasing documents and making things available. I, I just, that's my experience, and that's not what I expected," said the Utah lawmaker.

"There was the investigation into the IRS. And one that was more than seven years old is Fast and Furious. I mean, we have been in court trying to pry those documents out of the Department of Justice and still to this day, they will not give us those documents. And at the State Department, nothing. Stone cold silence," he said.

And worst of all, he added, the president has sat on demands from 50 Republicans to fire IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.

"You have more than 50 Republicans pleading with President Trump to release him, to let him go, fire him. Or at least encourage him to retire. No, he's still there. No changes. Nobody was fired. Nobody was prosecuted. Nobody was held accountable. We tried to issue subpoenas, we tried to hold people in contempt and the Obama Administration said, no, and the Trump Administration came in and did zero. Nothing. Nothing changed," he told Attkisson.

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com

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President Trump is expected to make a speech in Miami, Fla., on June 16, 2017, to announce changes on U.S. policy toward Cuba.(Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images)

MIAMI When President Trump travels to this Cuban-American enclave on Friday to announce curbs on recentU.S. ties withCuba, he'llbe flanked by supporters of his moves and confronted by protesters opposed to his rollback of one of President Barack Obama'ssignature achievements.

Trump, who has assailed Obama's renewed relations with Cuba's communist government after more than 50 years of estrangement, plans to fulfill a campaign promise to those in the Cuban-American community mostly older Republicanswho wantto maintain harsh sanctions against the regime of President RalCastro. Trump is scheduled to deliver his speech with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., and other anti-Castro lawmakers who helped craft Trump'spolicy by his side.

But outside the Little Havana theater where he'llspeak, throngs of predominantly younger Cuban Americansplan to demonstrate against retrenchment fromcloser connectionswith Cuba based on the argument that improved diplomatic, business and travel ties are the best way to spur growth in Cuba's emerging private sector and pressure the government to end its repression ofpolitical freedom. They contend thatrolling back the U.S.-Cuban thaw begun by Obama and Castro in December 2014 will hurt the Cuban people more than their communist leaders.

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"It's heartbreaking," said Patrick Hidalgo, a Cuban-American and former director of the White House Business Council under Obama. "We all know that Ral Castro and the leadership in Cuba will be fine. They don't worry where they're going to get breakfast, lunchand dinner. The average Cuban does, and our policy has helped them. This change will have a very direct, negative impact on their daily lives and their morale."

Trump won'tundo all U.S.-Cuban ties, ashe threatened to do while campaigning through South Florida last year. The embassies in Washington, D.C., and Havana that reopened in 2015 will remain, the two governments will continue negotiating on a variety of problemsof mutual concern and commercialU.S. flights and cruises crossing the 90 miles separating the two countries willcontinue.

Rather, advocates on both sides of the issue expect Trump to unveil more modestchanges that would limit the ability of U.S. companies to work directly with state-owned businesses in Cuba, and make sure Americans visit the long-isolated island only for specific and closely monitored purposes, not merely as tourists.

The reasonfor suchchanges, according to the Trump administration and supporters of the move, isCuba's failureto open up its political system, severties with anti-American dictators and end mistreatment of political dissidents.

"The new policy centers on the belief that the oppressed Cuban people rather than the oppressive Castro regimes military and its subsidiaries should benefit from American engagement with the island," said a Trump administration statement obtained by USA TODAY.

"Nothing has changed because of Obama's opening,"saidJaime Suchlicki, director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami."Cuba remains an enemy of the United States.Cuba remains an ally of Iran, of Russia, of North Korea, of Syria."

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tolda Senate panel Tuesday thathe wants to maintain the "sunny side" of the opening to Cuba, butthere also is a "dark side" tothe new relationship that the administration needs to correct.

"Political opponents continue to be imprisoned. Dissidents continue to be jailed," Tillerson said. "If we're going to sustain the sunny side of this relationship, Cuba must, absolutely must, begin to address its human rights challenges."

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Some critics ofthat approach accuse Trump of hypocrisy.Marselha Margerin of Amnesty International noted that Trump recently traveled to Saudi Arabia, where helavished its leaders with praise and signed a huge military dealbut ignored their flagrant human rights abuses."It's a bit hypocritical how the U.S. government addresses human rights violations in different countries," she said.

John McCullough, president and CEO of Church World Service, saidreports from church leaders in Cuba indicate the government hasscaled back arrests of political prisoners.In the first five months of 2016, Cuba averaged 1,215 political arrests a month, according to the Havana-based Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation. Over the same time period in 2017, that average has fallen to 448 arrests a month.

"Our view is that conditions on the ground are, in fact, improving," McCullough said. Church leaders in Cuba, "feel like their voices are being heard and being respected. Increasingly, they feel like they're partners in the development of Cuba."

Trump also has caughtheat from members of his own party on Capitol Hill.Three Republican senators who support an opening with Cuba Jeff Flake of Arizona,Mike Enzi of Wyoming and John Boozman of Arkansas wrote a letter to Tillerson last week urging him to reconsider any drastic changes with the island.

Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., calls himself "the absolute strongest supporter" of Trump, but he said the president will position himself on the "wrong side of history" by rolling back the opening with Cuba. Emmer lamented that Trump seems to be crafting his Cuba policy with only hardline Cuban-American legislators whispering in his ear rather than listening to the growing chorus of Americans, and Cuban-Americans, who want closer ties with their Caribbean neighbors.

"We've tried to communicate with the White House as best we can," Emmer said. "Unfortunately, I think he might be listening to a very small group of voices. Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to hold out hope that the president will listen to some rational voices."

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