Pan American solidarity, 1932-1940.

On the first day of his first administration, President Franklin Roosevelt announced: In the field of world policy, I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the Good Neighbor -- the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others -- the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors. Although Roosevelt\u27s verbal touch was needed to give this foreign policy a name, definite changes in the Latin American policy of the United States had already appeared during the preceding Hoover administration. Indeed, Calvin Coolidge was probably defining his own peculiar version of the Good Neighbor policy when he asserted at the Sixth International Conference of the American states at Havana, in 1928, that it is better for the people to make their own mistakes than to have someone else make their mistakes for them

The Local Role in Homeland Security

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The metropolitan area as a racial problem.

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