Actually it was NOT the President who decided the final outcome of the levee in MO. It was a federal judge in MO that made the decision.
"CARTERVILLE, Ill. -- A federal judge in Cape Girardeau, Mo., has given the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the go ahead to breach a Missouri levee in hopes of saving several other communities along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers."
"The presiding judge, Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. is a cousin of conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh, who also hails from Cape Girardeau."