it stands to reason that the proud organizational instruments of one administration will loom in the eyes of the victors as tools of, and monuments to, the predecessors just vanquished at the polls; for years, social security was a lightning rod of this kind, and though its critics discovered it was too popular and socially useful to discard when they finally came to office, the open and announced hostility of a political party sure to be elevated to power sooner or later certainly could not have enhanced the agency's sense of well-being and confidence about its future.