Audio: President Bush at COA's 38th Washington Conference

May 7, 2008

President George W. Bush, delivering the keynote speech as the COA’s annual Washington Conference on the Americas, discussed the hemispheric role of the United States. “The foundation of a good foreign policy is good relations with your neighbors,” said the president before outlining a range of priority issues for U.S.-Latin American relations, including bilateral free trade partnerships in the region, U.S. policy toward Cuba, and programs to support social justice in Latin America and to control the illicit drug trade throughout the hemisphere.

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