Reminiscences of Wilbur Joseph Cohen, 1974.

Biographical Note

Government official

Scope and Contents

Work with Edwin Witte and President's Committee on Economic Security, 1934; drafting Truman health message, 1945; Hill-Burton Act, 1946; studies undertaken as Research Director, Universal Military Training Commission; roles with Commission on Social Security; Professor, School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1956-61; passage of 1965 Medicare bill; Assistant Secretary, Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961-68; Secretary, Health, Education, and Welfare, 1968-69; observations of United States politics, 1930s-70s; impressions of Samuel Rosenman, Theodore Sorenson, Arthur Altmeyer, Lyndon B. Johnson

Subjects

• Cohen, Wilbur J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1913-1987--Interviews.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Medicare.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Sargent, James E., 1941- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Social security--Law and legislation.
• Social security--United States.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
• University of Michigan. School of Social Work.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984