Barbara Walters Reflects on Her Multiple Interviews With Fidel Castro (Video)

“The word ‘charismatic’ was made for him,” Walters says

Barbara Walters looked back on the time she spent with Fidel Castro in a new video following the former Cuban leader’s death.

“For a man who likes to talk, he does very few interviews,” Walters said in an interview with ABC News. “When he finally sat down it was, for me, memorable and to a large degree because we crossed the Bay of Pigs together.” This was the first time an American had crossed the infamous bay since the failed US-backed invasion of Cuba in 1961.

“The feeling is that he’s much bigger than he actually is,” Walters continued.

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