Roosevelt played a major part in interpreting, reinterpreting, and applying the Monroe Doctrine during his presidency. He affixed a “corollary” to the doctrine in 1904 that asserted the United ...

But what he says in a message to Congress is that the United States has the right to exercise international police power, and that particular message becomes known as the "Roosevelt corollary to ...

Roosevelt drafted the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine — the U.S. would freely intervene in any nation in the Western Hemisphere guilty of "brutal wrongdoing." When the Italian Navy ...