What brilliant leader created FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Authority?

[Igel]

1. Like many things, it had a history.

In '73 was established the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration. (Yeah, that shifts some of the glory away from Carter to an evil person.)

It grouped a number of things, including flood disaster recovery that Congress made part of the ACE in the '40s. Like the EPA, it was created under the auspices of a presidential directive from 1970. We were a reorganization of existing capacities, not a creation of capacities ex nihilo by Congress.

The Executive is in charge of organization; Congress, in our Democracy, is in charge of granting most authorities enjoyed by the Executive to the Executive.