JFK GIVES HIS VIEW ON THE MONROE DOCTRINE
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) Sixty years ago, August 29, 1962, John F. Kennedy gave his view as 35th POTUS on the Monroe Doctrine* in response to a reporter's question at a news conference held in the State Department auditorium.
The President said...
"The Monroe Doctrine means...we would oppose a foreign power extending its power to the Western Hemisphere and that is why we oppose what is happening in Cuba today.
That is why we have cut off our trade. That is why we will continue to give a good deal of...attention to it."
*The Monroe Doctrine is a unilateral declaration of American policy first stated in President James Monroe's annual message to Congress, December 2, 1823. It is a warning that the U.S. will not tolerate further colonization of the Western Hemisphere.
The British first proposed a joint declaration but Secretary of State John Quincy Adams convinced President Monroe to issue a unilateral declaration of American policy.
SOURCE
"The Monroe Doctrine, 1823," History Resources, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, www.gilderlehrman.org/
