Oral history interview with Nelson Cruikshank, 1967.

Biographical Note

Labor economist.

Scope and Contents

War Manpower Commission; American Federation of Labor office for Social Security, 1944; Advisory Committee to the Senate Finance Committee, 1949; chairman, labor staff coordinating committee on Medicare, 1959-60; Commission on Church and Economic Life; staff executive officer, American Federation of Labor Committee on Social Security; American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations efforts toward national health insurance: 1956 disability bill and Medicare bill and its precursors, 1957-65; American Medical Association opposition to Medicare, support of Medicare by National Council of Churches and National Council of Senior Citizens; drafting American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations constitution. Impressions of Andrew Biemiller, Wilbur Cohen, John F. Kennedy, George Meany, Walter Reuther, Abraham Ribicoff.

Subjects

• AFL-CIO.
• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Cruikshank, Nelson H.--Interviews.
• Economists--Interviews.
• Health insurance.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions and public health.
• Medicare.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Social security--United States.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Access Conditions

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