 Complete the following phrase:  According to her daughter, Fritzi, Howard became involved with Castro and viewed herself as a grand player on the stage of history. In an article for Politico detailing their relationship, Peter Kornbluh describes Howards role as a liaison between the United States and Cuba as intimate diplomacy, explaining that her role as peacemaker was built on a complex, little-understood rapport she managed to forge with Castro himself  a relationship that was political and personal, intellectual and intimate. In order to continue the reconciliation agenda, she set up a meeting between UN diplomat William Attwood and Cubas UN representative Carlos Lechuga on September 23, 1963, at her Upper East Side New York apartment, under the cover of a cocktail party. With Howards support, the Kennedy White House was organizing a secret meeting with an emissary of Fidel Castro in November 1963 at the United Nationsa plan that was aborted when 