the city college in san francisco was largely a product of the pwa and has wonderful art work all over it by the art in action project at the treasure island fair. and then there's these special schools for crippled children. this is in the mission district and it's a beautiful school with all the features we take for granted because of the americans with disabilities act. it has wonderful tiles. this was not accidental. this is the sunshine school. we made the school as beautiful as possible to take the children's minds off their problems. it was also crippled children. this might sound familiar to you if you know the history of president roosevelt. he was paralyzed by polio on the threshold of a promising career. he came back and few americans knew how disabled he was. he learned compassion. he learned he could help other people of different races that he never met before. this is what we used his inheritance for. this lead to the polio vaccine. this is one person who reveres him. suzie. she was born with clubbed feet. it's now for spinal diseases. these were men put to work. you cou

an alphabet soup of public work agencies, the cwa, pwa, not only provided jobs, but restored the nation's neglected infrastructure. between 1933 and 1937, federal government constructed more than half a million miles of highways, 5900 schools, 2500 hospitals, 8,000 parks, 13,000 playgrounds, and 1,000 regional airports. cultural projects employed and stimulated a generation of artists and writers including such luminaries as jackson poll pollock and richard wright. roosevelt saw social security enagented in 1935 as a centerpiece of the new deal. if our federal government was established to promote the general welfares that fdr, it is our plain duty to provide for that security upon which welfare depends. for the first time, government assumed responsibility for unemployment compensation, old age and survivor benefits, as well as aid to dependent children and the handicap. at fdr's insistence, social security was self-funded supported by cricks paid jointly by employers and employees. americans really don't quite appreciate the fact that in most other industrial countries, government itsel