The President Makers: 1896 to 1919.

Theodore Roosevelt and the Bureau of Corporation: Executive-Corporate Cooperation and the Advancement of the Regulatory State

“…I think it should be a very powerful office, and I think the president should be a very strong man who uses without hesitation every power that the position yields.'' 45 Roosevelt had no hesitation in grasping the opportunity to shape economic policy. By transferring discretionary power over publication of reports to the chief executive, with the acquiescence of a Congress cowed by the president's astute political maneuvering and a powerful coterie of conservative senators, Roosevelt shaped the Bureau not as an autonomous decision-making body, but as an executive tool for coercive cooperation.…”