Oral history interview with Jack B. Tate, 1965.

Biographical Note

Lawyer.

Scope and Contents

Assistant to Chief, later General Counsel, Social Security Board, 1935-39: federal public assistance programs, hiring staff, relations with states, dealings with Congress and Federal Bureau of Investigation; 1939 amendments; General Counsel, Federal Security Agency, 1939-47; development of Social Security. Impressions of Thomas Eliot, Jane Hoey, Arthur Altmeyer, Paul McNutt, Fowler Harper, John Winant, and others.

Subjects

• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Social security.
• Tate, Jack Bernard, 1902-1968--Interviews.
• Unemployment insurance.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Federal Security Agency.
• United States. Social Security Board.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1979.