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• catalog abstract "JFK tagged him "Mr. Social Security." LBJ praised him as the "planner, architect, builder and repairman on every major piece of social legislation [since 1935]." The New York Times called him "one of the country's foremost technicians in public welfare." Time portrayed him as a man of "boundless energy, infectious enthusiasm, and a drive for action." His name was Wilbur Cohen. For half a century from the New Deal through the Great Society, Cohen (1913-1987) was one of the key players in the creation and expansion of the American welfare state. From the Social Security Act of 1935 through the establishment of disability insurance in 1956 and the creation of Medicare in 1965, he was a leading articulator and advocate of an expanding Social Security system. 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. Filled with a great thirst for knowledge and wider horizons, he followed his mentors Edwin Witte and Arthur Altmeyer to Washington, D.C., and began a career that would eventually land him a top position in LBJ's cabinet as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Variously described as a practical visionary, an action intellectual, a consummate bureaucrat and a relentless incrementalist, Cohen was a master behind-the-scenes player who turned legislative compromise into an art form. He inhabited a world in which the passage of legislation was the ultimate reward. Driven by his progressive vision, he time and again persuaded legislators on both sides of the aisle to introduce and support expansive social programs. 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.".
• catalog alternative "Mister Social Security.".
• catalog contributor b7580858.
• catalog contributor b7580859.
• catalog created "c1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "c1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
• catalog description "1. The Education of Wilbur Cohen -- 2. Forging a Career in New Deal Washington -- 3. The 1940s, Social Security Apparatus, and Triumph of 1950 -- 4. The New Politics of Social Security and the Ike Age -- 5. A New Life: Cohen in Academia, 1956-1961 -- 6. Courting JFK, Expanding Social Security -- 7. The New Frontier -- 8. Education and Medicare in the Kennedy Administration -- 9. LBJ, Poverty, and Education -- 10. Medicare -- Legislative Triumph -- 11. Implementing the Great Society in a Time of Troubles -- 12. Secretary Cohen -- 13. Aftermath.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-380) and index.".
• catalog description "JFK tagged him "Mr. Social Security." LBJ praised him as the "planner, architect, builder and repairman on every major piece of social legislation [since 1935]." The New York Times called him "one of the country's foremost technicians in public welfare." Time portrayed him as a man of "boundless energy, infectious enthusiasm, and a drive for action." His name was Wilbur Cohen. For half a century from the New Deal through the Great Society, Cohen (1913-1987) was one of the key players in the creation and expansion of the American welfare state. From the Social Security Act of 1935 through the establishment of disability insurance in 1956 and the creation of Medicare in 1965, he was a leading articulator and advocate of an expanding Social Security system. 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. Filled with a great thirst for knowledge and wider horizons, he followed his mentors Edwin Witte and Arthur Altmeyer to Washington, D.C., and began a career that would eventually land him a top position in LBJ's cabinet as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Variously described as a practical visionary, an action intellectual, a consummate bureaucrat and a relentless incrementalist, Cohen was a master behind-the-scenes player who turned legislative compromise into an art form. He inhabited a world in which the passage of legislation was the ultimate reward. Driven by his progressive vision, he time and again persuaded legislators on both sides of the aisle to introduce and support expansive social programs. 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.".
• catalog extent "xx, 396 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Mr. Social Security.".
• catalog identifier "0700607072 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Mr. Social Security.".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "c1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas,".
• catalog relation "Mr. Social Security.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "368.4/3/0092 B 20".
• catalog subject "Cohen, Wilbur J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1913-1987.".
• catalog subject "HD7125.C573 B47 1995".
• catalog subject "Health insurance United States History.".
• catalog subject "Social security United States History.".
• catalog subject "United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Biography.".
• catalog subject "United States. Social Security Administration History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. The Education of Wilbur Cohen -- 2. Forging a Career in New Deal Washington -- 3. The 1940s, Social Security Apparatus, and Triumph of 1950 -- 4. The New Politics of Social Security and the Ike Age -- 5. A New Life: Cohen in Academia, 1956-1961 -- 6. Courting JFK, Expanding Social Security -- 7. The New Frontier -- 8. Education and Medicare in the Kennedy Administration -- 9. LBJ, Poverty, and Education -- 10. Medicare -- Legislative Triumph -- 11. Implementing the Great Society in a Time of Troubles -- 12. Secretary Cohen -- 13. Aftermath.".
• catalog title "Mister Social Security.".
• catalog title "Mr. Social Security : the life of Wilbur J. Cohen / Edward D. Berkowitz ; foreword by Joseph A Califano, Jr.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".