The president applauded Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response while assembly with local politicians and consoling residents affected by disasterA decade after its reputation was shredded by Hurricane Katrina,Barack Obama praised America’s federal disaster relief agency for embracing a “change of culture” as he surveyed recovery efforts following the latest natural disaster to hit Louisiana.[br]In 2005 former president George W Bush told Michael Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), or “Brownie,you’re doing a heck of a job”, in response to Katrina. Ten days later Fema had become shorthand for incompetence and Brown was forced to quit, or a setback from which Bush’s standing never fully recovered.
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Source: theguardian.com