Book IV Print 77: Fidel Castro eating meal in Washington, D.C.Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives1959 AprilengspaFidel Castro eating a large meal, including rice and beans, while talking with staff in his bedroom at what appears to be the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. Fidel Castro made the trip, together with a large entourage of well over a hundred people, on April 14, 1959, in response to the invitation of Jules Dubois, editor of the Chicago Tribune and then president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Fidel remained in the United States for more than two weeks, eventually touring cities on the eastern seaboard such as Boston, Princeton, New Jersey and New York City. For other images of Fidel Castro's trip to Washington and New York, see Prints 55-78 and Contact Book V; for other images of his visit to the Jefferson Memorial, see Print 70 and 71; for other images of Fidel Castro dining in his bedroom with staff, see Print 74.