Mr. Social Security: The Life of Wilbur J. Cohen
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (954 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700607072 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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And Wilbur Cohen is largely responsible for that.. He played that role so well that he prompted Senator Paul Douglas's wry comment that "an expert on Social Security is a person who knows Wilbur Cohen's telephone number."The son of Jewish immigrants, Cohen left his Milwaukee home in the early 1930s to attend the University of Wisconsin and never looked back. Like a shuttle in a loom he moved invisibly back and forth, back and forth, until the finely woven legislative cloth emerged before the public's eye.Nearly a decade after his death, Cohen and his legacy continue to shadow the debates over social welfare and health care reform. Driven by his progressive vision, he time and again persuaded legislators on both sides of the aisle to introduce and support expansive social programs. JFK tagged him "Mr. Social Security." LBJ p
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. This little-known public servant is fittingly restored to prominence in these pages. Berkowitz (America's Welfare State) stresses that Cohen was not a theoretician but a pragmatist. He also was instrumental in maneuvering the Eisenhower administration to accept the concept of social insurance, thus assuring bipartisan support for the entire program. He served for a few months in 1968 as secretary of health, education and welfare in Lyndon Johnson's cabinet, having been an assistant secretary from 1960 to 1965 and undersecretary until his elevation, but he was far more influential than those posts would suggest. . From Publishers Weekly Bureaucrat and technocrat par excellence, Cohen (1913-1987), the son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants in Milwaukee, became one of the chief architects of America's we
. Berkowitz, chair of the Department of History at George Washington University, is the author of America's Welfare State: From Roosevelt to Reagan and Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped and coauthor of Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Reform. Edward D
Bailey said Mr.Cohen a public servant for the ages. From what I've read of this online at Amazon, it looks fantastic. From what my father (Jerome Sonosky) told me he was a great man, a great thinker, problem solver, and a great boss, Dad was Special Assistant (or Deputy Assistant Secretary) to Mr.Cohen and he gave my father the pens signed by Lyndon Johnson in the development of the agencies Department of Transpo. A behind-the-scenes American hero Alice C An amazingly tenatcious workhorse who for decades devoted his energies to the building, brick by brick, of the most humane public legislation of socialized medicine.