Roger: I would like to help, really I would. The problem is that Government departments appear or change their names so often that I don’t know where to start. What about HEW? Does it still exist? Has it been subsumed into HHS?
Although FDR is now the poster boy for the alphabet soup of regulatory agencies of the New Deal, he at least didn’t create any new cabinet level departments. When I was a schoolboy I knew every one of them and the names of their Secretaries. To recite them now makes me profoundly sad—Secy. of State Cordell Hull, Secy. of War Henry Stimson, Secy. of the Navy Frank Knox, Secy. of the Interior Harold Ickes, etc. etc. Oh, the humanity! I will content myself with just one suggestion. Get rid of the damned Department of Energy.