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Summary Information
Edward D. Berkowitz Papers
1934-1991
Mss 461; PH Mss 461
0.4 c.f. (1 archives box), 174 photographs, and 24 negatives
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Materials gathered by historian Edward D. Berkowitz for his biography of Wilbur J. Cohen, Social Security expert and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under Lyndon Johnson. The book was published in 1995 as Mr. Social Security: the Life of Wilbur J. Cohen. The papers consist primarily of notes on interviews Berkowitz conducted with members of the Cohen family and selected associates. The interviewees are Cohen's sons Bruce and Chris, his brother Darwin Huxley, Helen Hill, Harold November, Merlyn Pitzele, Lewis E. Weeks, and Elizabeth Wickenden. Also included is a small amount of correspondence with and about Cohen, photocopied personal correspondence of Cohen's obtained from family members (1934-1940), and from Elizabeth Wickenden (1953-1974), photographs, and draft conference papers on Cohen, the American welfare state, and related topics. Among the photographs are black and white and color portraits of Cohen (circa 1954-1987) and his family, presidential bill signing ceremonies and cabinet meetings during the 1960s, his swearing-in and activities as Secretary of D.H.E.W., meetings of the National Commission on Unemployment Compensation in 1979, significant events in the history of social security, and snapshots of the author.
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English
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