theident johnson vetoed 1865 bill extending the bureau's postwar authority because he said it was not consistent with public welfare. thaton further explained pending the war, many refugees and freedmen received support from the government but it was never intended they should henceforth to fed, clothes, educated and sheltered by the united states. congress packed the bill over the president's opposition but the old dependency continued to plague expert -- efforts to feed the south vulnerable population. the most effective opposition actually came from within the bureau itself. 1865, one bureau agent, a man named charles called the freed people in his district together -- he said he had to disabuse the faultat he called and exaggerated ideas of freedom that they seemed to possess in his eyes. here is what he told them -- you are talking too much. you are waiting too much. you are asking for too much. was era tended that free people were demanding shorter workdays as well as provisions of food and clothing as well as shelter and medical care. he warned them that the deprivation and suf