ABSTRACT
In foreign policy President Richard Milhous Nixon would devote himself to the pursuit of what his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, dubbed the "structure of peace." Nixon's "low profile" approach to the hemisphere was sometimes referred to as "no profile." To most Latin Americans this policy recalled the barren years of the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. The intervening Democratic administrations had at least attempted to placate the developing world through economic concessions. In June 1969, Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, held hearings that revealed widespread displeasure with US military policies and programs in Latin America going back to the John F. Kennedy administration. While congressional critics pressed for a broad reassessment of US policies, President Nixon was considering the choices. The approach he inherited from the Lyndon Baines Johnson administration emphasized development and fiscal stability along lines promoting capitalism and free enterprise.
