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This paper attempts to assess the results of George W. Bush’s Administration in the social field. Paradoxically, during its first term, this conservative Administration displays a strong will to reform the education and the Social Security systems. Then, in 2005, the failure of Bush’s Social Security plan and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrinae led to a change of plan. During the second term, the non-intervention of the Federal Government was conceived as a form of intervention. Eventually, the "non-intervention" of the Federal Emergency Management Agency communicates a new definition of the links between the State and the civil society. Far from the concept of "Associative State," advocated by Herbert Hoover and his fellow Republicans, the Bush Administration has assigned a new mission and new goals for the Federal Government: in the field of domestic policy, non-intervention must become the rule.