What brilliant leader created FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Authority? [View all]

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Jimmy Carter.

President Carter signed Executive Order 12127, effective April 1, 1979, establishing FEMA. Shortly after, in signing Executive Order 12148 on July 20, 1979, President Carter gave the agency the dual mission of emergency management and civil defense.

I was rewatching the old disaster movie 'The Day After Tomorrow' today. There's a moving scene depicting millions of Americans seeking shelter in Mexico from a massive latitudinal icestorm -- all being fed and sheltered by the Federal Emergency Management Authority.

Republicans tend to want to cut important programs, sell off the United States to the wealthy, and coddle up to foreign dictators for profit and power -- especially lately.

Democrats take care to preserve and protect the nation we live in.

Jimmy Carter was the first president I could vote for. Still proud of that day.