Print shows President Theodore Roosevelt as a constable standing between Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa with a truncheon labeled The New Diplomacy. Image from Library of Congress
National Security Archive provides access to declassified U.S. government documents, presidential papers, congressional records, and court testimony that focus on U.S. national security, foreign policy, intelligence, and economic issues.
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