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PRESERVING SOCIAL SECURITY

 

FDR signing Social Security Act
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act of 1935. Standing (l to r) Rep. Frank Buck, Rep. Robert Doughton, (unknown), Sen. Robert Wagner, Rep. John Dingell, Sr., Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison, Rep. David J. Lewis.