The writer states in his article the following:
“[Roosevelt] exercised his pen and his phone, whatever he had to do, to get around that pesky Constitution. He readily admitted as much in his own autobiography.(page 372)
So I clicked and read what Roosevelt had written on page 372:
“My belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the Nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws.”
Note: “unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution”
In other words, to pursue his narrative, this writer lies.
Pretty much like Ken Burns doculiementary.
Roosevelt is making clear, that in all the areas where the Constitution is silent, that's where he acted.
A very large portion of progressivism exists exclusively by taking advantage(using and abusing) of these areas. For example, TR was the first to call for government controlled healthcare.
The Constitution is ultimately silent on healthcare. That word does not exist in the Constitution.
The Progressive Party Platform of 1912
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/progressive-platform-of-1912/
This is called the Stewardship Theory of the Presidency, and has been written about long before I realized the source of it.
www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA324102 (PDF Download)
"Theodore Roosevelt is the architect of both the theoretical and practical foundations of the modern presidency. The result has been to weaken and undermine the auxiliary precautions of the United States Constitution, primarily separation of powers, in order to enhance the power of the national government in general and the president in particular in the interest of efficient, progressive leadership and administration."
TR was a liberal proto fascist. He was far more interested in the narrative of national greatness than in individual rights. He encouraged and even endorsed some of the same creepy eugenicists that the nazis later appealed to in promoting theories of race hygiene. Had he lived longer, he would have put America on a very dangerous path.
He was perhaps aside from Jefferson the most intelligent man to ever serve as president and lived his life like an unstoppable force of nature. He suffered tremendous personal tragedy when his young wife (in child birth) and mother died within hours of each other and recovered by going into the west and remaking himself into a rancher, eventually gaining the respect of truly rough and ready men (some of whom later fought alongside him in Cuba).
He was a warrior but not a war monger and one of the most remarkable men in our history. For anyone to try and make a comparison between TR and a serial incompetent and coattail riding lying shrew like Hillary Clinton is beyond ridiculous, it's offensive.
As an unrelated aside, Glenn Beck should have followed his dad's profession and remained a baker. His diatribes against TR were a foreshadow of his rants about Trump.
I guess Theodore had no problem being totally truthful in his autobiography. Suggest you read Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris, as well as his Theodore Rex and The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. By the end Roosevelt was an out and out socialist and moving to a commie. There are many other including the new work on his youth.
I am not sure how much pure research you have ever done but reading a sentence in an autobiography doesn’t cut it. I’ve studied TR since college over 40 years ago. The author is not far off on his use and misuse of Presidential power.
The problem with all use of power by one person is you don’t always get a good person in charge. TR was basically good in his intentions but the problem becomes when others take over the office.
The founders gave us a strong Congress for a reason. We have totally gotten away from that idea as it is easier to let one person run with power.