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Reagan's approach revives a long tradition of American assertiveness in the hemisphere. As President Theodore Roosevelt, the original wielder of the big stick, said in 1904, "The Monroe Doctrine may force the U.S., however reluctantly in flagrant cases of wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power." During the 1920s, U.S. Marines were involved in extended occupations of Nicaragua, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In all, American forces have intervened 26 times in Latin America during this century...
Along the way, Roosevelt befriended Alan Brinkley, Dunalke Associate Professor of History, who was then a teaching fellow...
...Roosevelt, the great grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1870, and great grandnephew of Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, marched from a Washington, D.C., prep school through Harvard and then through the Law School, graduating this spring...
From the start of his undergraduate career, Roosevelt threw himself into state politics, working for then-city council candidate Lawrence S. DiCarn '71, managing the campaign of then-school committee candidate John O'Bryant in 1977, and then working on President Jimmy Carter's domestic policy staff...
Brinkley recounted a story about a younger Roosevelt's early involvement with the problem of racism...