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4/18/1935 During House debate on the Social security Act, Mr. Monaghan (D-MT) offered an amendment based on the Townsend Plan. https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/h418.pdf & https://www.ssa.gov/history/towns5.html
4/18/1942 The War Manpower Commission was established https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v8n8/v8n8p6.pdf
4/18/1974 Commissioner Robert M. Ball participates in "National Health Insurance", Meeting The 1970s are described as a "Policy Watershed" decade.
"After 1972 Social Security insiders such as Robert Ball saw national health insurance as the next big thing in America’s welfare state. This issue had been a contentious one, almost from the time that it arose during the New Deal. Reformers thought that the government should bring the costs of health care within people's financial reach by starting a national program of public health insurance..." - Edward D. Berkowitz, Ph.D., George Washington University
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/health-nutrition/the-1970s-as-policy-watershed
4/18/2005 George W. Bush Discusses Strengthening Social Security in South Carolina. https://www.ssa.gov/history/gwbushstmts5b.html#04182005
More Social Security history: https://www.ssa.gov/history/ & #SSAHistGWC
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