Oral history interview with A. Henry Aronson, 1965.

Biographical Note

Government official.

Scope and Contents

Director of personnel, Social Security Board; selection of administrators; field assistants; personnel problems in public assistance and unemployment insurance; merit system; recruitment; Bureau of Research and Statistics; authority of Civil Service commission over Social Security Administration; Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance; patronage problems; federal-state relationships in personnel administration. Recollections of Arthur Altmeyer, Vincent Miles, and John Winant.

Subjects

• Aronson, Albert H.--Interviews.
• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Government executives--Interviews.
• Insurance.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Social security--United States.
• United States--Politics and government--20th century.
• United States. Social Security Administration. Division of Research and Statistics.
• United States. Social Security Board.
• United States Civil Service Commission.