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Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
EMKSEN-AU0007-024-005
Sound recording of the radio program "Face Off." Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator Alan K. "Al" Simpson of Wyoming debate the legislation newly passed by the Senate to reform the U.S. welfare system. The episode aired on Tuesday, June 21, 1988, on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
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Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
EMKSEN-AU0007-023-015
Sound recording of the radio program "Face Off." Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator Alan K. "Al" Simpson of Wyoming debate legislation to protect senior citizens from the high costs of long-term care. The episode aired on Tuesday, June 14, 1988, on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
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Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
EMKSEN-AU0007-029-006
Sound recording of the radio program "Face Off." Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator Alan K. "Al" Simpson of Wyoming debate filibusters by Republicans to prevent passage of child care legislation and family leave legislation intended to benefit working parents. The episode aired on Tuesday, October 11, 1988, on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Sound recording
Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
EMKSEN-AU0007-029-005
Sound recording of the radio program "Face Off." Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator Alan K. "Al" Simpson of Wyoming debate why child care legislation, intended to support families with working parents, did not pass in Congress. The episode aired on Monday, October 10, 1988, on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Sound recording
Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
EMKSEN-AU0007-029-004
Sound recording of the radio program "Face Off." Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator Alan K. "Al" Simpson of Wyoming debate the Family Support Act, which is welfare reform legislation approved by Congress and President Ronald Reagan. The episode aired on Friday, October 7, 1988, on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Sound recording
Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
EMKSEN-AU0007-026-006
Sound recording of the radio program "Face Off." Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator Alan K. "Al" Simpson of Wyoming debate proposals to provide financial assistance for child care to working parents. The episode aired on Friday, August 5, 1988, on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-07-17-D
KN20
Textual folder
R. Sargent Shriver Personal Papers
RSSPP-040-005
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White
JFKWHSFLCW-006-005
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Senate Files
JFKSEN-0912-015
This file contains a press release from the Democratic National Committee containing Senator John F. Kennedy’s speech given at a senior citizens meeting held at Kleinham’s Music Hall in Buffalo, New York during his 1960 presidential campaign. In his speech he discusses the failure of the Republic administration to revise Social Security legislation to protect the elderly against rising medical costs.
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Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
EMKSEN-00887-003
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-051
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on H.R. 4655, to amend title IX of the Social Security Act with respect to the amount authorized to be made available to the States out of the employment security administration account for certain administrative expenses, and to reduce the rate of the Federal unemployment tax for the calendar year 1963.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-041
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Labor proposed report on H.R. 6501, to provide extended unemployment compensation to workers who lost their jobs by reason of the embargo on the importation of raw materials of Cuban origin. It also includes a copy of a similar bill, H.R. 8021.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-027
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Agriculture draft bill to strengthen the agricultural economy, to help achieve a fuller and more effective use of food abundances, and to provide to improved levels of nutrition among economically needy households through a program of food assistance to be operated through normal channels of trade. This legislation was known as the Food Stamp Act of 1963.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-025
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 4884, to amend title IV of the Social Security Act to authorize Federal financial participation in aid to dependent children of unemployed parents.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-018
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 8723, to amend the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act with respect to the method of enforcement and to provide certain additional sanctions.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-005
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) draft bill to extend and improve the public assistance and child welfare services programs of the Social Security Act. The legislation was known as the Public Welfare Amendments of 1962. The file also includes another HEW draft bill to improve the quality of elementary and secondary education, called the Improvement of Educational Quality Act of 1962.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-050
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Labor draft bill to amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-039-019
This folder contains a press copy of President John F. Kennedy's statement regarding the approval of the Public Welfare Amendments Bill, which emphasizes services, support, and rehabilitation rather than relief.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-039-016
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's statement on the defeat of the Medical Care for the Aged Bill. Materials in this folder include drafts by Special Counsel and speechwriter Theodore Sorensen and a press copy of the speech.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-038-023
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's address at the Rally of the Three Generations for President Kennedy's Health Insurance Program through Social Security held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In his speech the President discusses the proposed King-Anderson Bill and the necessity to provide reliable and affordable health insurance for the aged through Social Security. Materials in this folder include various memoranda, drafts (one by Special Counsel and speechwriter Theodore Sorensen), and a press copy of the speech, in addition to research notes, a draft for a suggested tape-recorded message on the subject, and a statement made by Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Abraham A. Ribicoff concerning health insurance for the aged. Of note are several items with handwritten notations by President Kennedy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-035-022
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's statement upon signing S. 1922, the Housing Act of 1961. The bill allocated federal aid for urban renewal, improvement of mass transportation, and assistance for housing and community development. Materials in this folder include a draft and press copy of the statement.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-035-021
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's statement upon signing the Social Security amendments of 1961. The bill allowed for the allocation of benefits to five million people and permitted retirement with benefits at age 62. Materials in this folder include drafts and a press copy of the speech.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-047-038
This folder contains a press copy of President John F. Kennedy's statement in the White House Cabinet Room upon signing H.R. 7544, the Mills-Ribicoff Bill, an amendment to the Social Security Act aimed at preventing and combating mental retardation through the expansion and improvement of maternal and child health programs.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-102-023
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning efforts by the National Council of Senior Citizens to promote pending legislation providing for hospital services to aged beneficiaries through Social Security. Materials in this folder include weekly reports on the activities of the Ways and Means Committee of the United States House of Representatives and an article by Ivan A. Nestingen, Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, on the Medical Assistance for the Aged program.