Oral history interview with Elizabeth Wickenden 1966
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Elizabeth Wickenden : oral history, 1966
Abstract
Education, Vassar; Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 1933; medical programs; representative for American Public Welfare Association; public welfare philosophy; social insurance legislation; interaction with politicians; consultant on health insurance to Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and others; Medicare and American Medical Association; insurance companies; senior citizen s in politics, 1950s and 1960s. Impressions of Wilbur Cohen, Nelson Cruikshank, Francis Townsend, James O'Brien, Charles Odell, Zalman Lichtenstein, Marjorie Shearon, and others.
Women in public life; Lobbyists; Government consultants--United States; Health insurance; Medicare; Social security; Social security--Law and legislation; United States Politics and government 1945-1989; Wickenden, Elizabeth, 1909-2001; American Public Welfare Association; American Medical Association
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1966
Physical Description
211 pages
Note (Biographical)
Lobbyist, consultant; interviewee married Arthur Goldschmidt.
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
Interviewed by Peter A. Corning on April 5, June 10, and October 24, 1966.