Modern rhetoric often describes Roosevelt's policy as Monroe's

John Kerry declared the era of the Monroe Doctrine over while advocating mutual partnership through the Organization of American States. That partnership language was close to Monroe's original position, even though Kerry was rejecting the name. Donald Trump later reaffirmed the doctrine while pursuing a more interventionist, Roosevelt-like posture. The familiar Monroe label can therefore conceal a policy lineage more directly associated with Theodore Roosevelt. The political reading offered here is that Monroe's less celebrated name is easier to reject or appropriate because Theodore Roosevelt carries sharper political symbolism.