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Roosevelt expressed an antitrust image within a pro business framework. Critics who have measured Roosevelt's success by the number of antitrust suits he brought or won miss the essentially rhetorical purposes of his involvement with corporate America. His primary emphasis involved the promotion of the proper attitude in corporate leaders and the general public regarding the role of big business in American society. This Roosevelt did in two ways. First, he argued metaphorically for the necessity of corporations and the restraint of muckraking journalists. Second, along with employing metaphors to chastise big business, Roosevelt assumed the role of moral guardian and preached to corporate leaders to adhere to an ethical standard in business. For Roosevelt, corporate America could be effectively regulated only by its leaders' sense of morality and spirit of public service.<ref>Dorsey, Leroy G., "Theodore Roosevelt and Corporate America, 1901-1909: a Reexamination," ''Presidential Studies Quarterly'' 1995 25(4): 725-739</ref>

Roosevelt expressed an antitrust image within a pro business framework. Critics who have measured Roosevelt's success by the number of antitrust suits he brought or won miss the essentially rhetorical purposes of his involvement with corporate America. His primary emphasis involved the promotion of the proper attitude in corporate leaders and the general public regarding the role of big business in American society. This Roosevelt did in two ways. First, he argued metaphorically for the necessity of corporations and the restraint of muckraking journalists. Second, along with employing metaphors to chastise big business, Roosevelt assumed the role of moral guardian and preached to corporate leaders to adhere to an ethical standard in business. For Roosevelt, corporate America could be effectively regulated only by its leaders' sense of morality and spirit of public service.<ref>Dorsey, Leroy G., "Theodore Roosevelt and Corporate America, 1901-1909: a Reexamination," ''Presidential Studies Quarterly'' 1995 25(4): 725-739</ref>

====Executive Orders====

====Executive Orders====

Roosevelt was the first President to issue over 1000 [[Executive Order]]s. According to Dr. Graham G. Dodds, a professor of political science at Concordia University,<ref>[https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/polisci/faculty.html?fpid=graham-dodds Graham Dodds, PhD]</ref> Roosevelt issued almost as many executive orders as all of his predecessors combined.<ref>{{cite book|title=Executing the Constitution: Putting the President Back Into the Constitution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qgzmexCI734C&pg=PA53 |year=2006|publisher=State University of New York Press|pages=53|isbn=9780791481905}}</ref>

{{main|Political positions of Theodore Roosevelt#Executive_Orders}}

Prior to Roosevelt, only one President issued over 200 executive orders, [[Grover Cleveland]].(Cleveland issued a total of 253)<ref name=executiveorders>[http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php Executive Orders: Washington - Obama]</ref> Of the first 25 Presidents in total, 1262 executive orders were issued. Roosevelt issued 1081.<ref name=executiveorders />

Roosevelt believed that good policy could come from a multitude of quarters from within the government, even if it lacked congressional approval.  During his presidency, Roosevelt issued over 1000 executive orders, a first for any American president.<ref>[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-theodore-roosevelts-executive-orders-reshaped-countryand-presidency-180962908/ The Debate Over Executive Orders Began With Teddy Roosevelt’s Mad Passion for Conservation]</ref> In many instances, Roosevelt's use of Executive Orders was directly linked with his conservation views.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bD8EDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA101 Theodore Roosevelt, Conservation, and the 1908 Governors' Conference]</ref>

 

Members of congress eventually got tired of Roosevelt's excesses in using executive orders to create policy. On February 25, 1907, Senator Charles W. Fulton, a Republican from Oregon, added an amendment to the 1907 Agricultural Appropriations Bill<ref>[http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev7_007136.pdf Siuslaw National Forest], '''PDF'''</ref> declaring these activities as falling under the authority of congressional power, not executive power. Congressional leaders concluded that the president was out of control.<ref>{{cite book|title=Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UiYRkL4GqP4C&pg=PA178 |year=2008|publisher=Yale University Press|pages=178|isbn=9780300145144}}</ref>

===Moving left===

===Moving left===