However, this document would set an important precedent for future US interventions into Central and South America, as future presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt invoked the Monroe Doctrine over and over again to "justify" constant marine invasions of countries such as Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, and Cuba. ...
But American foreign policy suffered a major setback in April 1945 when President Theodore Roosevelt died and President Harry S. ... The verbal agreements that Roosevelt and Stalin had come to were vague, and the new administration was forced to wait for future negotiations to sort the mess out. ...
Truman succeeded Roosevelt, after his death, and the day after his inauguration said "I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me."" ... Lynn Boyd Hinds and Theodore Otto Windt Jr. in their book the Cold War as Rhetoric viewed the Truman Doctrine as neatly thought out and very necessary to increase both Truman and the United State's authority as a world power. ...
