ABSTRACT
The new mood became evident as John F. Kennedy's presidency captured the imagination of a generation in his own country and beyond; it affected the entire hemisphere, radiating a promise of redemptive change. President Kennedy recaptured the sense of common history and common yearnings that had so profoundly marked Roosevelt's approach to inter-American relations. The long-range social and economic reforms envisioned in the Alliance for Progress were, according to Kennedy, inspired by his own country's revolutionary tradition, a common heritage, he pointed out, of all the American states that had overthrown their status of European colonies. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy and President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress loom as the two great landmarks in the relationship between the United States and Latin America in the twentieth century. They also underscore the importance of inter-American ties and the need for the United States to respond, sooner or later, to the special requirements of each age.
