Biographical information; beginning years of the Social Security Administration; Democratic and Republican approaches to the program; social security and the cost of living; amendments through the years; 1956 disability amendment and the opposition to it; involvement with committees; Elizabeth Wickenden and LBJ; provisions of the disability amendment; Medicare and its coverage in the Columbia University Oral History Project; evolution and implementation of Medicare; LBJ involvement in Medicare; benefit increases and social security in general; views on future of social security; anit-poverty aspects of the program; thoughts on varied use of individual social security numbers
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