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Teddy Roosevelt: “If we had refused to apply the Doctrine to changing conditions it would now be completely outworn, would not meet any of…”

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If we had refused to apply the Doctrine to changing conditions it would now be completely outworn, would not meet any of the needs of the present day, and indeed would probably by this time have sunk into complete oblivion.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt warns that failing to adapt the Monroe Doctrine to changing conditions would render it obsolete.

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