Oral history interview with Arthur J. Altmeyer 1967
- Name
- Altmeyer, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1891-1972 (Interviewee)
- Corning, Peter A., 1935- (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Arthur J. Altmeyer 1967
- Abstract
- Education, background in health insurance movement, John R. Commons; Committee on Economic Security, 1934-1935; Assistant Secretary of Labor, 1934; Advisory Council, National Conference on Health, 1938; administrative problems and policies in Social Security; training, relations with Congress, Treasury Dept., Internal Revenue Service; influence of organized labor and professional associations. Imp ressions of Frances Perkins, Edwin Witte, Wilbur Cohen, Isidore Falk, and others.
- Collection Name
- Social security project
- Subjects
- Government executives; Labor unions; New Deal, 1933-1939; Health insurance; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; United States Economic policy 1933-1945; Altmeyer, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1891-1972; United States. Social Security Administration; United States. Committee on Economic Security
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1967
- Physical Description
- 231 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Administrator.
- Note
- Interviewed by Peter A. Corning in 1967.
- Note (Provenance)
- Arthur J. Altmeyer, Gift 1966
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13555383
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-grwb-p775
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.