What were the meaning and implications of Theodore Roosevelt's view that the presidency was a "bully pulpit"? To what extent did Roosevelt face limitations in exercising the full power of the "bully pulpit"?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
- Definition of the "bully pulpit": Theodore Roosevelt's vision that he could use the presidency as a platform to exhort Americans to reform their society
- Implications that the presidency was a "bully pulpit":
* Activism in arbitration: Roosevelt's intervention in the anthracite coal strike
* "Trust-Busting": ordering the prosecution under the Sherman Antitrust Act of large companies such as J.P. Morgan's National Securities Company, tobacco and beef trusts, and Standard Oil to restrain or dissolve business monopolies
* Greater government regulation: The Hepburn Act; the Pure Food and Drug Act; the Meat Inspection Act
* Government regulation of the natural environment: conservation versus preservation; clashes with John Muir; Hetch Hetchy Valley reservoir project; Newlands Reclamation Act
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