The former senator and presidential candidate offers a provocative
new assessment of the first "national security president"
James Monroe is remembered today primarily for two things: for
being the last of the "Virginia Dynasty"--following George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison--and for issuing
the Monroe Doctrine, his statement of principles in 1823 that the
western hemisphere was to be considered closed to European
intervention. But Gary Hart sees Monroe as a president ahead of his
time, whose priorities and accomplishments in establishing
America's "national security" have a great deal in common with
chief executives of our own time.
Unlike his predecessors Jefferson and Madison, Monroe was at his
core a military man. He joined the Continental Army at the age of
seventeen and served with distinction in many pivotal battles. (He
is prominently featured at Washington's side in the iconic painting
Washington Crossing the Delaware.) And throughout his career as a
senator, governor, ambassador, secretary of state, secretary of
war, and president, he never lost sight of the fact that without
secure borders and friendly relations with neighbors, the American
people could never be truly safe in their independence. As
president he embarked on an ambitious series of treaties,
annexations, and military confrontations that would secure
America's homeland against foreign attack for nearly two hundred
years. Hart details the accomplishments and priorities of this
forward-looking president, whose security concerns clearly echo
those we face in our time.
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