Oral history interview with Roswell Perkins [electronic resource], 1966

Biographical Note

Lawyer, government official; interviewee b.1926.

Scope and Contents

Education; consultant with Health, Education, and Welfare, 1953; analysis of social security laws; Assistant Secretary, Health, Education, and Welfare, 1954; President Dwight Eisenhower on social security; politics behind legislation; dealing with the aged; evaluation of American Medical Association, insurance companies' position; Forand Medicare bill; advising Governor Nelson Rockefeller on health legislation; impressions of Oveta Culp Hobby, Wilbur Cohen, others.

Subjects

• American Medical Association.
• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Medicare.
• Old age pensions.
• Oral histories.
• Perkins, Roswell B.--Interviews.
• Social security--Law and legislation.
• Social security--United States.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
• United States. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare.
• United States. Social Security Administration.

Access Conditions

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