vacuum but he did a lot to move the agenda for word by treating the social security bureau bureau, mccready and the fda and what happened to those u.s. agencies when the government went to war? of the challenge for roosevelt was that everybody felt great about the u.s. getting involved in a foreign entanglement there was strong isolationism and there were members of congress who put roosevelt between the rockets and the hard place because they knew he wanted to get the u.s. closer to war footing looking at the pacific he also knew he wanted to protect his social welfare programs and he had to choose whether to use the federal government to pass it and build up the defenses or prepare for war or protect the social welfare programs. he had a super agency to blur the distinction. >>host: there is also one about president bush. whose idea is that? national commissions or university commissions to protect the country from terrorism in the borders more effectively the actual process to create a cabinet agency had forces that included members of congress and even the president had a big role in th