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Quotation from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
“every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people”
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, Chapter X, The Presidency (Project Gutenberg #3335 (1920 Scribner edition of the 1913 text))
His statement of the stewardship theory of executive power.
Citation: "every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people" — Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, Chapter X, The Presidency (Project Gutenberg #3335 (1920 Scribner edition of the 1913 text)). (id theodore-roosevelt-an-autobiography-q6)
Portrait: Theodore Roosevelt by the Pach Bros, Pach Brothers; restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
