Loss, departments and agencies that carry out the policies. It was not always the case. Trumane 1952 president wanted to bring into the white house both the republican and democratic essential nominees to meet with his cabinet and white house staff members, he met with a partisan divide. He had wanted them to come in because he found when he came into office, he was unprepared. He came in january of 1945. Roosevelt died in april, and truman knew nothing of the atomic bomb. Seared by that experience, he wanted to bring people in so they would understand what was ahead of them. Adelaide stephenson accepted, but general eisenhower turned down trumans invitation, in large part because he said he was running against the administrations programs and from the public would be coming into the white house when he was running against it. Truman was very upset. He sent a handwritten note, which she would sometimes do because he could slip by staff, and they would not see it and stop him. So he had