WHAT IF HE HAD GIVEN CASTRO $10?

Letters that children have written to presidents over the decades end up in the National Archives.

One came from a pre-teen author who would later make history, as this AP story notes:

Fidel Castro, 12, wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt in 1940.

"If you like," the future Cuban dictator wrote, "give me a ten dollars bill green american, in the letter because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green american and I would like to have one of them."

More than 35 years later, Castro told an Associated Press reporter how proud he had been when he got an acknowledgment from a U.S. diplomat and his school posted it for a week on the bulletin board. However, there was no $10 bill.

Is Cuban communism little more than sour grapes toward a tightwad president?