Oral history interview with Blue Carstenson, 1966.

Scope and Contents

Technical director for education for aging at Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959; chairman of the technical directors for the White House Conference on Aging; staff member of the Democratic National Committee: Executive Director, National Council of Senior Citizens, 1961-65; legislative representative, National Farmers Union, 1965-72; organizing senior citizens; efforts toward medical legislation; impressions of Ivan Nestingen, Abraham Ribicoff.

Subjects

• Agriculture--United States.
• Carstenson, Blue--Interviews.
• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
• Executives--Interviews.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Medicare.
• Medicine.
• National Council of Senior Citizens.
• National Farmers' Union (U.S.)
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Social security--United States.
• United States. Congress.
• United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Access Conditions

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