The Kennedy Doctrine refers to foreign policy initiatives of the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, towards Latin America during his term in office between 1961 and 1963. In John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, which took place on January 20 1961, President Kennedy presented the American public with a blueprint upon which the future foreign policy initiatives of his administration would later follow and come to represent. In the Address, Kennedy warned "Let every nation know, …showed first 75 words of 844 total…

…showed last 75 words of 844 total…the President, William Averill Harriman, a man who served in several posts under J.F.K., noted, "President Kennedy was the first President, that I know of, who was really his own secretary of state. He dealt with every aspect of foreign policy, and he knew about everything that was going on." Kennedy, John f. "Inaugural Address." Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes, the American Experience. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc., 2002. 197-200