Reminiscences of Roswell Burchard Perkins : oral history, 1966
Abstract
Education; consultant with Health, Education, and Welfare, 1953; analysis of social security laws; Assistant Secretary, Health, Education, and Welfare, 1954; President Dwight Eisenhower on social security; politics behind legislation; dealing with the aged; evaluation of American Medical Association, insurance companies' position; Forand Medicare bill; advising Governor Nelson Rockefeller on health legislation; impressions of Oveta Culp Hobby, Wilbur Cohen, others.
Government executives--United States; Social security--United States; Medicare; Old age pensions; Social security--Law and legislation; United States Politics and government 1953-1961; Perkins, Roswell B; American Medical Association; United States. Social Security Administration; United States. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1966
Physical Description
143 pages
Note (Biographical)
Lawyer, government official; interviewee b.1926.
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 2, July 11, and October 12, 1966.