there's frances perkins, the first female cabinet member in american history who almost singlehandedly brought social security into being and who won her first day as secretary of labor not only had to physically evict the cigar chomping gangster with whom herbert hoover had snagged the labor department but had to take mop in hand to evict the cockroaches from the labor department's filled the headquarters building. and harold ickes, the head of the public works administration. republican but a progressive republican who staged a dumped hoover campaign and the 1932 gop convention but failed because he couldn't find anyone else who wanted to run. my personal favorite, general hugh johnson, a big blustery often drunk profane fax west pointer who brought the national recovery administration into being, retaining -- created a symbol of the blue eagle which many of the vaccine or remember and was famous for being able to intimidate the nation's biggest industrialists into doing his bidding when he was secretly checking into walter reed hospital to dry out. how big a figure was general johns

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there is frances perkins those who almost singlehandedly brought social security and as this at this second day as of secretary of labor but then to add to take mamma's hand from the headquarters. and the interior secretary a republican for the progressive republican on big g.o.p. convention but failed because he could not find anybody else who wanted to run and my personal favorite, a profane was point* who brought the nra into being that many of you have seen or remember who was famous to intimidate the industrialist and while not the secret the checking into walter reed hospital. [laughter] in cuts to congressmen pay in wages. the roosevelt constantly threaten to zero raise taxes on the wealthy but failed to do so until the very end for most of the period the bulk of taxes were paid by the middle-class and more taxes were piled on. the higher excise taxes and after the repeal of prohibition in 1933 with the social security tax. further, many new deal initiatives personally favored were failing and many successes were defeated the ending of the banking crisis for the new administra

so there is frances perkins, the first female cabinet member in american history who almost singlehandedly brought social security into being and to on her first day as secretary of labor not only had to physically evict the cigar chumping gangsters with whom herbert hoover has damped the labor department, but then she had to take mop in hand to evict the cockroach's of illiberal apartments filled the headquarters building. and harold ickes, fdr interior secretary in the head of his public works to ministration, a republican, but a progressive republican who had staged a hoover campaign at the 1932 gop convention the failed because it cannot find anyone else who wanted to run. and my personal favorite, general hugh johnson, a big plus street often drawn profane exit was pointer who brought the national recovery administration or the nra into being, created its symbol of the blue eagle, which many of you have seen or, perhaps, even remember and he was famous for being a will to intimidate the nation's biggest industrialists into doing his bidding. and he was secretly checking into walter re

his serve franklin roosevelt for all 12 years that roosevelt was in office, the other one being frances perkins. he was a very important aide and adviser to roosevelt. roosevelt did not always taken very seriously. he was the curio, a curmudgeon, would try to get his weight by threatening to resign, but he was also known, the reason that roosevelt put him in charge of the public works ministration which ended up with jurisdiction over a river dam was that he was convinced that it would be so careful with the public's money that he would always disperse it very slowly, which could result. and he did. never a scandal at the public works and ministration commanded give us some truly enduring public works. this gentleman right here. >> i don't know if you have done any reading on patrick moynihan discussion and studies of security. if he was alive today some of the things that he can say about the condition of social security. if i remember correctly, he looked at it more as a mathematical equation, in other words, the mortality, the age at which -- and the birth rate, is that not still -- >> well,