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Oral history interview with Jack B. Tate [electronic resource], 1965

Creator: Tate, Jack Bernard, 1902-1968
Project: Social security project.
(see all project interviews)
Phys. Desc. :Transcript: 119 pages sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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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.

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

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