Oral history interview with Alanson Willcox, 1966.

Biographical Note

Lawyer.

Scope and Contents

Drafting Social Security Act, 1935-36; legal adviser, Social Security Board, 1938; General Counsel, Federal Security Agency, 1947; Murray-Wagner-Dingell bill; philosophy of social security; evaluation of legislation; Medicare: positions of American Medical Association, Blue Cross, and American Hospital Association. Impressions of Jack Tate, Tom Eliot, Wilbur Cohen, and others.

Subjects

• American Medical Association.
• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Health insurance.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Medicare.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Social security--Law and legislation.
• United States. Federal Security Agency.
• United States. Social Security Board.
• Willcox, Alanson Work, 1901-1978--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976