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.
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
