Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Elizabeth Wickenden [electronic resource], 1966
Creator: | Wickenden, Elizabeth, 1909-2001 | Project: | Social security project. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript: 211 pages sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteLobbyist, consultant; interviewee married Arthur Goldschmidt.
Scope and ContentsEducation, Vassar; Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 1933; medical programs; representative for American Public Welfare Association; public welfare philosophy; social insurance legislation; interaction with politicians; consultant on health insurance to Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and others; Medicare and American Medical Association; insurance companies; senior citizens in politics, 1950s and 1960s. Impressions of Wilbur Cohen, Nelson Cruikshank, Francis Townsend, James O'Brien, Charles Odell, Zalman Lichtenstein, Marjorie Shearon, and others.
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1978.
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