Republican (proto-fascist/socialist) President Theodore “Robber Baron” Roosevelt writing to George Otto Trevelyan boasts of how he has greatly expanded the powers of the presidency:

       [W]henever I could establish a precedent for strength in the executive, as I did for instance as regards external affairs in the case of sending the fleet around the world, taking Panama, settling affairs of Santo Domingo and Cuba; or as I did in internal affairs in settling the anthracite coal strike, in keeping order in Nevada this year when the Federation of Miners threatened anarchy, or as I have done in bringing the big corporations to book—why,  in all these cases I have felt not merely that my action was right in itself, but that in showing the strength of, or in giving strength to, the executive, I was establishing a precedent of value (emphasis added).

       [added 5/30/2022]