A presidential doctrine encompasses the key foreign affairs goals, attitudes, or positions of the United States outlined by a president. Most presidents want to announce a doctrine to outline their foreign policy. For example, President Kennedy's doctrine, “Flexible Response,” refers to foreign policy initiatives toward Latin America. Kennedy expressed support for containing communism and reversing communist progress in the Western Hemisphere. Kennedy added to the doctrines of Truman and Eisenhower by introducing his “flexible response” policy, the ultimate goal of which was to reduce the possible use of nuclear weapons while preventing other countries from using them. This policy is intended to give the president more flexible options in dealing with the opposition. President Kennedy's flexible response was his approach of increasing spending on conventional military forces, expanding the nuclear arsenal, continuing the CIA's covert work, and giving economic aid to countries that resisted. communism, including the development of the Peace Corps and ongoing negotiations with the USSR. Relations between the United States and Cuba had been in steady decline since Castro took power in early 1959. US officials were convinced that Castro's government was too anti-American to do so. could be trusted and feared that he might lead Cuba into the communist alliance. The Eisenhower administration began funding and training a group of Cuban exiles to overthrow the Cuban leader. Castro responded by increasing his program of nationalization of foreign properties and companies. In exchange, the United States began to implement cuts to trade with Cuba. The relationship between the United States and Cuba was one of the coldest of the Cold War (Chann story...... half of the paper ......tense by Cuba's decision to send troops to Angola. President Carter's efforts to normalize relations were met by the Mariel Bridge. Those of Presidents Clinton were met by the shooting down of a Brothers to the Rescue plane. Obama's efforts were met by the arrest and imprisonment of a USAID contractor on espionage charges Cuba's number one priority is not the United States (Starr, 2013). put together just enough market incentives in a socialist economy to boost productivity, jump-start growth and create good jobs without sacrificing the essence of the Cuban socialist revolution Ambassador Carlos Alzugaray said Cuba is trying to achieve a “gradual but relentless” updating of socialism, driven by economic and political needs as well as the country's unique realities (Starr, 2013).