Reminiscences of Roswell Burchard Perkins : oral history, 1967.

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Reminiscences of Roswell Burchard Perkins : oral history, 1967.

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.

Transcript: 143 leaves.Tape: 3 reels.

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