I agree with Matt Lewis, it is hard and dangerous to judge historical figure by today's standards:
Of course, as many historians would warn, the problem with Beck’s criticism is that it’s dangerous to judge a historical figure—especially one who served as president more than a century ago—by today’s standards.
Roosevelt’s tenure occurred at the dawn of the 20th century—when “The American Experiment” was still fairly new. Roosevelt didn’t have the benefit of seeing the disastrous results of liberalism that we witnessed in the 1960s and ‘70s—results that led many Americans —including Ronald Reagan—to change their political ideology.
Roosevelt also presided during an era when big business and monopolies were more powerful than we can imagine (while most modern-day conservatives would gladly repeal much of the New Deal and the Great Society, I’m guessing few would want to repeal the Pure Food and Drug Act that Roosevelt signed in 1906).
It does not mean that wrong and immoral practices in the past were alright. Just that historical figures must be taken in totality and historical context. Our founding fathers would not live up to our current societal standards of racial and gender equality.