Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids: Contents List

Container	Title
M2000-009	Part 1 (M2000-009): Original Collection, 1935-1998 Physical Description: 50.1 c.f. (50 record center cartons and 1 card file box), 75 tape recordings (in 2 record center cartons), 18 photographs, and 1 negative Scope and Content Note: The papers document Ball's careers in the Social Security Administration, as well as his many other social insurance and social welfare policy-related activities. Included are daybooks, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, subject files, notes, speeches, Congressional testimony, and writings, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. Among Ball's correspondents were Congressman Wilbur Mills, Arthur Altmeyer, Wilbur Cohen, Robert Myers, and Elizabeth Wickenden.
	Series: Biographical Materials
Box 1 Folder 1-15	Daybooks, 1962-1997
	Addresses
Box 2	Address cards
Box 2	Memberships in organizations
Box 2	Family cards
Box 2	Rolodex cards
Box 2	Address book, undated
Box 3 Folder 1	Articles and clippings about Ball
Box 3 Folder 2	Shisgall article on Ball, 1967
Box 3 Folder 3-12	Awards, 1952-1992
Box 3 Folder 13	Interviews with Ball, 1993, 1996, 1997
Box 3 Folder 14	Robert M. Ball Lecture Series, 1974-1989
Box 3 Folder 15-28	Brandeis courses, 1959-1960
Box 3 Folder 29	Who's Who entries
Box 3 Folder 30-31	Biographical information-other, 1949-1991
Box 3 Folder 32	Job opportunities, 1954, 1973, 1976
Box 3 Folder 33	Personnel file
Box 3 Folder 34	Father and mother
	Series: Organizational Memberships	⇧
Box 3 Folder 35	Georgetown University Center for Health Policy Analysis advisory board, 1974-1975
Box 3 Folder 36	Advisory Committee on Long Term Care, 1987
Box 3 Folder 37-43	American Public Welfare Association, 1940-1975
Box 3 Folder 44	Brookings Institute, Industry-Government Seminars, Conference on Public Service, 1964-1967
Box 3 Folder 45	Citizens Jury, 1992-1993
Box 3 Folder 46	Center for National Policy (previously Center for Democratic Policy), Domestic Policy Study Group, 1981-1983
Box 3 Folder 47	Center for the Study of Social Policy, 1982-1989
Box 4 Folder 1-3	Commission for College Retirement, 1983-1987
	Gerontological Society of America
Box 4 Folder 4	General, 1984-1985
Box 4 Folder 5	National Academy on Aging, 1995-1996
Box 4 Folder 6	Harvard Consortium of Long Term Care, advisory committee, 1986-1987
Box 4 Folder 7-12	Institute of Medicine, Brookings Institution, 1970-1994
Box 4 Folder 13-17	International Social Security Association, 1959-1963, 1966-1967, 1972
Box 4 Folder 18	Legal Council for the Elderly, 1985-1986
Box 4 Folder 19-20	National Academy of Public Administration, 1969-1998
	National Academy of Social Insurance
Box 4 Folder 21-29	1976-1991
Box 5	1988-1997
Box 6 Folder 1	National Conference on Social Welfare, 1972
Box 6 Folder 2	National Planning Association, Policy Committee on Private Pensions, 1977-1979
Box 6 Folder 3-4	Pension Rights Center, 1983-1997
Box 6 Folder 5	Pepper Foundation, advisory board, 1991-1996
Box 6 Folder 6	Project Hope, committee on health policy, 1978
	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Box 6 Folder 7	Chronic disease care program, 1978-1983
Box 6 Folder 8	Continuing care retirement communities study, 1981-1983
Box 6 Folder 9	Save Our Security, 1979-1996
Box 6 Folder 10-11	Study Group on Social Security, 1981-1985
Box 6 Folder 12	Visiting Nurse Association of Northern Virginia, 1980-1981
	Series: Advisory Councils on Social Security, 1938-1997	⇧
Box 6 Folder 13-25	1938-1939, 1943-1944, 1947-1949, 1953, 1965, 1971-1984
Box 7-9	1988-1996
Box 10 Folder 1-8	1996-1997
Box 10 Folder 9	“Independent Legitimators in a Time of Social Insurance Consensus: the 1948 Advisory Council and Passage of the 1950 Amendments to the SS Act,” James L. Dergay thesis, 1996
	Series: National Commission on Social Security Reform, 1981-1983	⇧
Box 10 Folder 10-23	1981-1982
Box 11 Folder 1-23	1982-1983
	Reorganization of the SSA, 1960-1967, 1976-1977
Box 11 Folder 24-26	1960-1963
Box 12 Folder 1-30	1963-1967, 1976-1977
	SS Board Minutes/Commissioner's Minutes/Commissioner's Action Minutes, 1935-1963
Box 12 Folder 31-33	1935-1936
Box 13	1937-1944
Box 14 Folder 1-22	1945-1962
	Early files, 1935-1963
	Numbered subject files, 1945-1962
Box 14 Folder 23	AM-1-3: Pilot audit of the validity of claims evidence
Box 14 Folder 24	AM-1-3: Project: attendance at meetings
Box 14 Folder 25	AM-6-2: Routine distribution of Congressional hearings, reports, bills
Box 14 Folder 26	AM-7: Bureau pars (claims)
Box 14 Folder 27	AM-7: Studies-miscellaneous
Box 14 Folder 28	AM-9: Field facilities
Box 15 Folder 1-3	AM-9: Field facilities-regional boundaries
Box 15 Folder 4	AM-9: Observation on some problems arising from expansion of Bureau, S/B memo, 1960 December
Box 15 Folder 5	AM-9: Regional office staffing
Box 15 Folder 6	AM-9-2: District offices: openings, space, miscellaneous
Box 15 Folder 7	AM-9-2: Additional space-relocation of offices
Box 15 Folder 8	AM-9-2: Establishment of new district offices
Box 15 Folder 9	AM-9-2: Appraisal of field organization and managment in DHEW
Box 15 Folder 10	AM-9-2: Construction of district offices
Box 15 Folder 11	AM-9-4: Study of ind. district office management, operation, and organization
Box 15 Folder 12	AM-11: Reports management
Box 15 Folder 13	AM-13: Work measurement in staff jobs
Box 15 Folder 14	AM-14: Forecasts and guides
Box 15 Folder 15	AM-14: Work planning
Box 15 Folder 16	AM-14-2: Long range planning activities (Conference on the Public Service meeting-Ball attended)
Box 15 Folder 17	AM-14-2: Annual meeting on work emphases, 1961
Box 15 Folder 18	CL-1: Filing of claims at age 65
Box 15 Folder 19	CL-1-5: Bureau leads program
Box 15 Folder 20	CL-2: Reconsideration study (disallowance)
Box 15 Folder 21	CL-3: Material participation-court cases
Box 15 Folder 22	CL-3: Appeals process in OASDI
Box 15 Folder 23-24	CL-3-2: Court cases
Box 15 Folder 25	CL-6: Claims material
Box 15 Folder 26	CL-7: Beneficiary compliance survey
Box 15 Folder 27	CL-8: Reconstruction of lost claims
Box 15 Folder 28	CL-8: Direct mail development procedures
Box 15 Folder 29	CL-8: Developmental notices-SS-5 for use in claims process
Box 15 Folder 30	CL-8-9: Proof of age-paying for census transcripts
Box 15 Folder 31	CL-8-9-4: Census records-purchase of
Box 15 Folder 32	CL-9: Fraud-program connected
Box 15 Folder 33	CL-10: Checks-general
Box 15 Folder 34	CL-10: Combined check procedure
Box 15 Folder 35	CL-10-6: Checks-combined
Box 15 Folder 36	CL-10-6: Nonreceipt of checks-15-4 checks-miscellaneous
Box 15 Folder 37	CL 15-4: Checks-miscellaneous
Box 15 Folder 38	CL-16: Program administration abroad, 1956-1959
Box 15 Folder 39	CL-17-1-a: Annual report of earnings-form OA-C777A
Box 15 Folder 40	DI: Miscellaneous
Box 15 Folder 41	DI-2: Processing disability cases in district offices
Box 15 Folder 42	DI-2: District office-award form C-101
Box 15 Folder 43	DI-2-2: Study of Baltimore disability operations-task force
Box 15 Folder 44	DI-11: Medical advisory group
Box 15 Folder 45	DI-11: Evaluation of substantial gainful activities
Box 15 Folder 46	F-M-2-4: Staffing in the regions
Box 16 Folder 1	PA-15: Financing-Trust Fund and Board of Trustees, 1962-1963
Box 16 Folder 2	PA-31: Guides to staff regarding Advisory Councils
Box 16 Folder 3	PA-33-8: Speeches
Box 16 Folder 4	PA-37: Claims processing time-reports
Box 16 Folder 5	PA-37-1: Bureau productivity
Box 16 Folder 6	PE-6-2: Retirement, mandatory (age 70) policy
Box 16 Folder 7	PE-14-1: Claims rep and field reps-promotion
Box 16 Folder 8	PE 18-4: Use of race or color on SS-5 application for account number
Box 16 Folder 9	PE 18-4: Non-discrimination-miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 10	PI-2-3: New York's World's Fair
Box 16 Folder 11	PI-3-3: Swift-pamphlets-miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 12	PI-4-1: Chamber of Commerce
Box 16 Folder 13	TG: Training
Box 16 Folder 14	TG-6-5: Education-OASDI center, college, et cetera
	Alphabetical subject files, 1942-1944, 1953-1964
Box 16 Folder 15	80th anniversary of the Civil Service Act
Box 16 Folder 16	A/C Number procedures, miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 17	ADC study
Box 16 Folder 18	AFGE lodge
Box 16 Folder 18	Amish-television film and miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 20	Annual reports, DHEW
Box 16 Folder 21	APWA membership-Bureau affiliation
Box 16 Folder 22	Attorney Hamilton (Social Security activities)
Box 16 Folder 23	Audit activities-departmental internal
Box 16 Folder 24	Beneficiary rolls, planned activities to maintain integrity of, 1963
Box 16 Folder 25	BHA, miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 26	Broadening work experience program
Box 16 Folder 27	Budget, miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 28	Bureau's system of administrative surveys and audits
Box 16 Folder 29	California audit
Box 16 Folder 30	Civil defense-Bureau activities
Box 16 Folder 31	Civil service-inspection report
Box 16 Folder 32	Claims-advance filing award notices
Box 16 Folder 33	Claims examiner classification study
Box 16 Folder 34	Claims-overdevelopment in claims
Box 16 Folder 35	Clerk review function-elimination of payment center and DDO
Box 16 Folder 36	Commemorative stamp on Social Security
Box 16 Folder 37	Commissioner, 1962 May
Box 16 Folder 38	Complaints, handling
Box 16 Folder 39	Confidential regional and field organization, 1961
Box 16 Folder 40	Consultants on Social Security, 1953
Box 16 Folder 41	Cooperative research and demonstration grant program
Box 16 Folder 42	Correspondence, miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 43	CSC-qualification standards for personnel officer-draft
Box 16 Folder 44	Cultural Center-drive-nationwide project, 1963
Box 16 Folder 45	Cyclical mailing of checks
Box 16 Folder 46	Development notices to district offices
Box 16 Folder 47	Disability case control
Box 16 Folder 48	Disability, miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 49	Disability-taking applications (deadline)
Box 16 Folder 50	Disclosing information from Social Security records and furnishing letter forwarding services, et cetera, confidentiality
Box 16 Folder 51	Discrimination
Box 16 Folder 52	District office construction
Box 16 Folder 53	Edwards, Leonard E.
Box 16 Folder 54	Electronic computer (small scale card)
Box 16 Folder 55	Employee conduct and responsibilities
Box 16 Folder 56	Employee health service, miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 57	Employee-management cooperation (DM reports), Executive Order 10988
Box 16 Folder 58	Executive development program
Box 16 Folder 59	Federal Register-procedure for submittal to commissioner for approval
Box 16 Folder 60	Field organization and management
Box 16 Folder 61	Film showing, The Long Haul, 1963
Box 16 Folder 62	Follow-up-division of program analysis
Box 16 Folder 63	Forecasts and guides
Box 16 Folder 64	Foreign Social Security systems, miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 65	Fraud-Michigan, miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 66	Futterman notes, miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 67	Grade allocations-RR and AAR
Box 16 Folder 68	Great Britain
Box 16 Folder 69	Hearing examiner decisions, review of
Box 16 Folder 70	Hospitality funds
Box 16 Folder 71	IBM 7080s, purchase of
Box 16 Folder 72	IRS-miscellaneous operations
Box 16 Folder 73	IRS-Special audit for Social Security purposes
Box 16 Folder 74	JSF-routine procedure correspondence
Box 16 Folder 75	King letter
Box 16 Folder 76	Leads program
Box 16 Folder 77	Lobbying, funds for
Box 16 Folder 78	McCall, 1957
Box 16 Folder 79	Miscellaneous notes-publications
Box 16 Folder 80	Missions abroad-administration of program
Box 16 Folder 81	Mobility-review of policy, 1963
Box 16 Folder 82	Nestor case-Supreme Court, 1961
Box 17 Folder 1	Network alignments
Box 17 Folder 2	Operations research
Box 17 Folder 3	Personnel, Bureau, miscellaneous
Box 17 Folder 4	Program planning and goal-setting
Box 17 Folder 5	Project: internal review-Bureau
Box 17 Folder 6	Project: programs for educational television
Box 17 Folder 7	Project: plan for location persons involved in a study of mental retardation, University of Nebraska, 1962
Box 17 Folder 8	Proposal for Bureau reports management study
Box 17 Folder 9	Race designation on forms-SS-5s
Box 17 Folder 10	Region IX-Simplification activities Title II
Box 17 Folder 11	R.J. Myers-actuarial study number 52
Box 17 Folder 12	Research project, George Washington University
Box 17 Folder 13	Retirement booklet, “Planning for the Later Years,” 1963
Box 17 Folder 14	Secretary's visit to the Bureau
Box 17 Folder 15	Social Security benefits
Box 17 Folder 16	SS-5, miscellaneous
Box 17 Folder 17	State and local, miscellaneous
Box 17 Folder 18	State unemployment: compensation laws-by Tixier, ILO, 1935
Box 17 Folder 19	Studies and reviews
Box 17 Folder 20	Study-first-check insurance, 1957-1960
Box 17 Folder 21	Study-levels of public understanding-nationwide
Box 17 Folder 22	Study-statistical activities-House P.O. and civil service exam
Box 17 Folder 23	Supergrades-miscellaneous
Box 17 Folder 24	Survey of domestic coverage
Box 17 Folder 25	Mr. Swift, public information officer-miscellaneous memos, 1962
Box 17 Folder 26-27	Technical training-OASI
Box 17 Folder 28	Unfinished business list, 1959-1960
Box 17 Folder 29	VC-personal-bill-CSC retirement...
Box 17 Folder 30	White House, miscellaneous
	Secretarial files (1948, 1950-1963)
Box 17 Folder 31	Bureau director's meeting
Box 17 Folder 32	List of people of national organizations to be invited to visit
Box 17 Folder 33	Banta
Box 17 Folder 34	Del do I-26
Box 17 Folder 35-36	Deputy Director/copies of everything
Box 17 Folder 37	Distribution / Del do
Box 17 Folder 38	Wilcox talk by VISTA, 1961
Box 17 Folder 39-40	DEW-miscellaneous instructions (file or make notes or ??)
Box 17 Folder 41	Replies to letters sent with Secretary's testimony, 1961
Box 17 Folder 42	Letters
Box 17 Folder 43	Gradual retirement
Box 17 Folder 44	Drafts-McKenna memo survey group recommendations
Box 17 Folder 45	Confidential (appeals process-hearing examiners)
Box 17 Folder 46	Actuarial memo, 1961
Box 17 Folder 47	Ed Murrow, “See it Now”
Box 17 Folder 48	Conference organizational manual-McKenna comment
Box 17 Folder 49	Confidential-organization (miscellaneous) Bureau and personnel
Box 17 Folder 50	Survey of the Office of the Director, 1953
Box 17 Folder 51-52	Miscellaneous notes
Box 17 Folder 53	Travel, 1960-1962
Box 17 Folder 54	Confidential-miscellaneous personnel
Box 17 Folder 55	O'Connor memo-hold
Box 17 Folder 56	Correspondence-legislative materials sent to
Box 17 Folder 57	Division of Management-miscellaneous memoranda, 1962
Box 17 Folder 58	Lipinski
Box 17 Folder 59-64	[Untitled]
Box 18 Folder 1-7	[Untitled]
	Other files
Box 18 Folder 8	Correspondence-miscellaneous, 1935-1953
Box 18 Folder 9	Curtis, Congressmen, (1953-1955)
Box 18 Folder 10	Meyer, Mrs. Eugene (Agnes), 1949-1956
Box 18 Folder 11	“Report on survey of statistical program,” by Kaplan, 1940
Box 18 Folder 12-13	SSA Manual, 1940-1952
Box 18 Folder 14	Basic Principles-discussion group, 1944-1945
Box 18 Folder 15	University-Government Center on SSA, 1949
Box 18 Folder 16	Names and addresses-miscellaneous (possible use Altmeyer and others), 1953
Box 18 Folder 17-20	Majorie Shearon, Challenge to Socialism, 1952-1950
Box 18 Folder 21	“OASI Program Notes,” 1952-1953, 1959-1962 Note: Incomplete.
Box 18 Folder 22	Consultative SS Committee, 1st meeting, 1953
Box 18 Folder 23	OASI in the Philippines, 1953-1957
Box 18 Folder 24	“Bureau Objectives-revision 1958,” 1954-1960
Box 18 Folder 25	Miscellaneous notes-New Hampshire, 1955-1956
Box 18 Folder 26	Material taken and sent to New Hampshire, 1957-1959
Box 18 Folder 27	Electronic programming for statistics, 1955-1956
Box 18 Folder 28	Bureau committee on IRS relations-Lowery, 1955-1959
Box 19 Folder 1	IRS-letter to Scribner regarding audits, 1955-1961
Box 19 Folder 2	Delegations affecting regional directors, 1956
Box 19 Folder 3	Federal OASI trust fund-process of accounting, 1956
Box 19 Folder 4-5	Directing the Bureau-draft, 1956-1961
Box 19 Folder 6	Bureau workload reporting system study, 1957
Box 19 Folder 7	Standards and measures of adequacy of SS benefits and payments (working group) DPA, 1957
Box 19 Folder 8	Bureau review, 1958
Box 19 Folder 9	Memos-data processing, 1958-1959
Box 19 Folder 10	Employee memorials [proposal], 1960-1961
Box 19 Folder 11	Dynamic pension plans [proposed to adjust benefits to changes in earnings levels], 1961
Box 19 Folder 12	Selected materials from the files of the HIB staff, 1961
Box 19 Folder 13-14	Memos, 1959-1961
Box 19 Folder 15	Trust Fund, 1958-1959
Box 19 Folder 16	“Director's Bulletin,” 1959-1962 Note: Incomplete.
Box 19 Folder 17-35	[Untitled]
	Series: Commissioner, Social Security Administration (SSA), 1962-1973	⇧
	Correspondence
Box 20 Folder 1	Congratulatory letters on appointment, M-Z, 1962 April
Box 20 Folder 2-4	Assistant Secretary for Legislation, 1961-1963
Box 20 Folder 5-14	Celebrezze, Anthony J., 1962 August-1965 August
	Cohen, Wilbur J.
Box 20 Folder 15-27	1965 May-1966 November
Box 21	1966 December-1968 November
Box 22 Folder 1-4	1968 December-1969 March
Box 22 Folder 5-24	Finch, Robert H., 1968 December-1970 June
Box 23 Folder 1-15	Gardner, John W., 1965 July-1968
Box 23 Folder 16-19	Myers, Robert J., 1964
Box 23 Folder 20-21	Mitchell, W.L., 1961 January-May
	Richardson, Elliot L.
Box 24	1970 June-1971 August
Box 25	1971 September-1972 June
Box 26 Folder 1-11	1972 July-1973 January
	Veneman, John
Box 26 Folder 12-25	1969 February-1970 July
Box 27 Folder 1-17	1970 August-1973 January
Box 27 Folder 18-29	Alphabetical correspondence
Box 27 Folder 30	Memos and correspondence, miscellaneous, 1962-1971
	Legislative files
Box 27 Folder 31	Legislative proposals, 1959
Box 27 Folder 32	Legislation-S.1 and HR 1, 1964
Box 27 Folder 33	Current legislation, 1967
Box 27 Folder 34	Legislative proposals, 1968
Box 27 Folder 35	Current legislative program, 1968
Box 27 Folder 36-37	Legislation, 1972
Box 28 Folder 1-2	Ribicoff hearing on rising health care costs, 1968-1972
Box 28 Folder 3-18	Senate Finance Committee, 1965-1975
Box 28 Folder 19	Javits, Senator Jacob, National Health Insurance bill, 1969
Box 28 Folder 20	Curtis, Senator Carl, 1968
Box 28 Folder 21	Byrd, Senator Harry, 1966
Box 28 Folder 22	Long, Senator Russell B., 1970
Box 28 Folder 23	Flood, Congressman Daniel, 1967, 1972
Box 28 Folder 24	Anderson, Senator Clinton P., 1966-1969
Box 28 Folder 25-26	Prouty, Senator, 1966
Box 28 Folder 27	Byrnes, Congressman John W. 1967-1970
Box 28 Folder 28	Griffiths, Representative Martha W., 1970-1972
Box 28 Folder 29	Curtis, Congressman Thomas B., 1965-1968
	Committee on Ways and Means
Box 28 Folder 30-33	1962, 1969
Box 29 Folder 1-6	1969-1971
Box 29 Folder 7	Miller Amendment, 1966
Box 29 Folder 8	Legislative memos and notes, confidential, 1971
Box 29 Folder 9	[Untitled], 1973
Box 29 Folder 10-14	Mills, Congressman Wilbur, 1969-1974
Box 29 Folder 15-17	Legislative testimony, 1967-1973
Box 29 Folder 18-24	Wilbur J. Cohen-legislative, 1964-1966
Box 29 Folder 25-26	Personnel inquiries-Wilbur Cohen, 1966-1969
Box 30 Folder 1-6	Personnel matters, 1961-1972
Box 30 Folder 7-14	Commissioner's Actions and Decisions, 1963-1967, 1971-1973
	Notes to executive staff and headquarters personnel
Box 30 Folder 15-27	1964 August-1968 January
Box 31	1968 February-1969 July
Box 32 Folder 1-16	1969 August-1973 March
	Notes to Betty Dillon
Box 32 Folder 17-35	1964-1970 August
Box 33 Folder 1-13	1970 September-1973 March
	White House
Box 33 Folder 14	Special Johnson program reports, 1965-1967
Box 33 Folder 15	[Untitled], 1966-1967
Box 33 Folder 16	Report to the President on 1st year of Medicare and Medicaid, 1967
Box 33 Folder 17	Signing ceremony [SS amendments], 1967
Box 33 Folder 18	Highlights of executive reorganization-Reform, Renewal for the '70s
Box 33 Folder 19	White House Conference on Aging, 1971
Box 33 Folder 20	White House Conference on Health, 1965
Box 33 Folder 21-31	General, 1966-1973
	Committees, conferences, councils, task forces
Box 33 Folder 32	Advisory Council on Health Insurance for the Disabled, 1968-1969
Box 34 Folder 1-3	Business Council Liaison Committee, HEW, 1967-1968
Box 34 Folder 4	Cabinet Committee on Federal Staff Retirements, 1966
Box 34 Folder 5-6	Health Insurance Benefits Advisory Council-appointments, 1967-1968
Box 34 Folder 7-9	President's Commission on Income Maintenance Programs (Heineman Commission), 1967-1969
Box 34 Folder 10-11	Task Force on Health, 1968-1969
Box 34 Folder 12-15	Task Force on Income Maintenance, 1964-1966
	Other files
Box 34 Folder 16	OASI and Disability Insurance Trust Funds, Board of Trustees annual report, 1964
Box 34 Folder 17	Assistant Regional Representation Conference, Indianapolis, 1963
Box 34 Folder 18	Hospital insurance, 1962-1963
Box 34 Folder 19	Interviews and articles, 1963-1975
Box 34 Folder 20	Drugs, 1968-1973
Box 34 Folder 21	LBJ and Medicare, 1965-1966
Box 34 Folder 22	“Editorial and News Reaction to the Beginning of Medicare,” 1966
Box 34 Folder 23-25	Poverty
Box 34 Folder 26	Balance of payments, 1964-1965
Box 34 Folder 27	[Hansen Amendment], 1972
Box 34 Folder 28	Retirement test
Box 35 Folder 1	Payment Center chiefs' meeting, 1963
Box 35 Folder 2	Q and A book, 1963
Box 35 Folder 3-11	Electronic Data Systems Federal Corporation/Ross Perot [Medicare data processing], 1969-1973
Box 35 Folder 12	Comments on Pechman manuscript, 1967-1968
Box 35 Folder 13	New Hampshire, 1963
Box 35 Folder 14	[Clippings regarding discrimination, et cetera], 1963
Box 35 Folder 15	33rd Anniversary SSA, 1968
Box 35 Folder 16	Organizational charts
Box 35 Folder 17-18	Memos, 1962-1966
Box 35 Folder 19	“World of Folk Music” radio series-Ball messages, 1961
Box 35 Folder 20-22	Platforms-Democratic and Republican
Box 35 Folder 23	Commissioners' Bulletin, 1963-1970 Note: Incomplete.
Box 35 Folder 24-25	Trust Fund, 1963-1967
Box 36 Folder 1	Commissioner swearing-in, 1962 March 17
Box 36 Folder 2	President Johnson-Social Security record
Box 36 Folder 3	Otts report, 1971
Box 36 Folder 4-5	Medicare annual reports, 1968-1972
Box 36 Folder 6-8	Supplementary medical insurance premium, 1967-1973
Box 36 Folder 9-10	Tips-coverage under Social Security, 1964-1966
Box 36 Folder 11-12	Kiddie Care, 1968, 1972
Box 36 Folder 13	Private pension relationship
Box 36 Folder 14	Alternatives and criticism
Box 36 Folder 15	Public persuasion
Box 36 Folder 16	Legislative-poverty
Box 36 Folder 17	Medicare
Box 36 Folder 18	Program objectives, 1973
Box 36 Folder 19	Reimbursement formula-research
Box 36 Folder 20	Young worker-money worth (SS reform-media and PR)
Box 36 Folder 21	Annual reporting, 1965
Box 36 Folder 22-23	Implementation of Medicare
Box 36 Folder 24	Cabinet presentation on Medicare
Box 36 Folder 25	AFL-CIO [health care reform letters], 1970-1971
Box 36 Folder 26	In-patient hospital deductible, 1970-1972
Box 36 Folder 27	Health maintenance organization, 1970
Box 36 Folder 28	Catastrophic illness insurance plan, 1971
Box 37 Folder 1	Legislation, benefit increase, 1970-1971
Box 37 Folder 2	“Social Security and Federal Employment” report, 1965
Box 37 Folder 3	“Relating SS Protection to the Federal Civil Service” report, 1969
Box 37 Folder 4	“Report of the SSA Advisory Committee on Personnel Practices in Baltimore,” 1964
Box 37 Folder 5	“Progress of the Kennedy Administration in Health, Education, Welfare, Social Security, and Rehabilitation” DHEW, 1963
Box 37 Folder 6	“Assignment of the Commissioner of Social Security,” 1972
Box 37 Folder 7-10	Black lung
Box 37 Folder 11-14	Proposals for national health insurance #1
Box 37 Folder 15-17	Proposals for national health insurance #2
Box 37 Folder 18-20	Family assistance plan #3
Box 37 Folder 21-23	Current cost financing, 1972
Box 37 Folder 24	President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy [release of SS information to]
	Ball resignation/ouster
Box 37 Folder 25	Congressional Record
Box 37 Folder 26	Letters received
Box 37 Folder 27-28	Clippings
Box 38 Folder 1	Miscellany
Box 38 Folder 2-10	[Untitled]
	Series: Post-1973	⇧
	Daily chronological files
Box 38 Folder 11-33	1973 November-1986 July
Box 39	1968 August-1993 December
Box 40 Folder 1	1994 January-May
	Correspondence
Box 40 Folder 2	Bethell, Tom, undated
Box 40 Folder 3	Cavanaugh, Francis X, 1996
Box 40 Folder 4	Cohen, Wilbur J., 1969-1987
Box 40 Folder 5	Cuomo, Mario, 1988
Box 40 Folder 6-7	Munnell, Alicia H., 1985-1996
Box 40 Folder 8-10	Myers, Robert J., 1970-1993
Box 40 Folder 11-12	Wickenden, Elizabeth, [1981-1988]
Box 40 Folder 13-28	General, 1977-1998
	Other files
Box 40 Folder 1	Biographies of others, miscellaneous
Box 40 Folder 2	Railroad retirement, 1974
Box 40 Folder 3-4	Carter Campaign, 1976
Box 40 Folder 5	Discussion items concerning assumptions for 1978 trustees report cash benefits
Box 40 Folder 6	Social Security 50th anniversary, 1985
Box 40 Folder 7	Connecticut long term care plan, 1987
Box 40 Folder 8-9	Presidential campaign, 1988
Box 40 Folder 10-13	Health plan-filling the gaps, 1990-1991
Box 40 Folder 14-18	[Health care reform/proposals], 1990-1994
Box 40 Folder 19	[New York health care plan], 1992
Box 40 Folder 20	Trout chapter on 82-83, draft, 1993
Box 40 Folder 21	Trout project , 1996
Box 40 Folder 22	[Means testing], 1993-1994
Box 40 Folder 23-24	[SSA transition to independent agency], 1984, 1994
Box 40 Folder 25	Solomon Bills and Nick Smith, 1995-1996
Box 40 Folder 26	Recent charts and tables, 1996
Box 40 Folder 27	Act and destroy [long-term entitlement reform]
Box 40 Folder 28	“Preserving and Strengthening Medicare,” Marilyn Moon and Karen Davis
Box 40 Folder 29	Ad Hoc Task Force on the Social Security Surplus, 1988
Box 40 Folder 30	“Social Security: A Sound and Durable Institution of Great Value [White Paper], 1975
Box 40 Folder 31	“Restoring Public Confidence in Social Security Financing” [White Paper and notes from meeting the President], 1977
Box 42 Folder 1-2	Entitlement Reform Commission, 1993-1995
Box 42 Folder 3	Carnegie Corporation, 1988-1990
Box 42 Folder 4	Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, Advisory Committee on Health, 1976-1980
Box 42 Folder 5	Milbank Memorial Fund, 1991-1992
Box 42 Folder 6	Families USA Foundation, 1985-1991
Box 42 Folder 7	Democratic Advisory Council, 1974-1980
Box 42 Folder 8-9	Democrats for the '80s
Box 42 Folder 10-11	White House Conferences on Aging, 1980-1981, 1995
Box 42 Folder 12	Roosevelt, James, National Committee to Preserve Social Security, 1986-1987
Box 42 Folder 13-29	[Untitled]
Box 43	[Untitled]
Box 44 Folder 1-13	[Untitled]
	Series: Testimony, Speeches and Writings	⇧
	Articles, indexed
Box 44 Folder 14-29	1963-1973
Box 45 Folder 1-2	1971-1973
	Testimony, speeches and writings
Box 45 Folder 3-21	1947-1967 March
Box 46	1967 April-1974 April
Box 47	1974 May-1978 October
Box 48	1978 November-1983
Box 49	1984-1989 March
Box 50 Folder 1-14	1989 April-1998, undated
	Books and book chapters
	Social Security Today and Tomorrow, ©1978
Box 50 Folder 15	Copy of book
Box 50 Folder 16	Correspondence
Box 50 Folder 17	Reviews
Box 50 Folder 18-23	Drafts
Box 51 Folder 1-3	Background?
Box 51 Folder 4	Book material-revision
	Because We're all in this Together, with Thomas N. Bethell, ©1989
Box 51 Folder 5	Copy of book
Box 51 Folder 6	Mailings
Box 51 Folder 7	Correspondence
Box 51 Folder 8	Reviews
Box 51 Folder 9-21	Miscellaneous drafts of books and book chapters, 1974-1997
PH Box 18	Series: Photographs Scope and Content Note: Formal portraits, Social Security staff and activities.	⇧
	Series: Sound Recordings, 1951-1973 Physical Description: 7-inch reels unless otherwise noted	⇧
Box 52 No. 1-22	Executive staff meetings, 1966 April-1972 October
Box 52 No. 23-35	Operational planning meetings, 1968 July-1973 January
Box 53 No. 36-41	Work plan meetings, 1968 July-1971 January
Box 53 No. 42	Robert Ball, 1951 February 27 Physical Description: 26 minutes
Box 53 No. 43	Robert Ball, Riverside conference, 1954 February 16 Physical Description: 30 minutes
Box 53 No. 44	Robert Ball, 1954 February Physical Description: 30 minutes
Box 53 No. 45	Speech and questions, Miami, 1961 November 15
Box 53 No. 46-47	Robert Ball program, 1962 April 25
Box 53 No. 48-49	Youth forum-value of your times, 1963 May 9
Box 53 No. 50	Atlanta regional conference, 1968 October 30
Box 53 No. 51	Commissioners action management proof of age, 1969 January 27
Box 53 No. 52	Proof of age, 1969 February 4
Box 53 No. 53	Cam meeting, 1969 December 8
Box 53 No. 54	Ball talk to regional commissioners-#8 [section 8?] housing, 25 adult assistance, 150, philosophy of adult assistance + SS, 270 questions and discussions, 1971 May or June
Box 53 No. 55	Robert Ball speech, 1971 June 4
Box 53 No. 56	Futterman, 1971 April 3
Box 53 No. 56	Questions to Mr. Ball, 1971 June 4
Box 53 No. 57	Account number systems meeting with AEH, 1971 June 15
Box 53 No. 58	Executive staff. Start Mr. Ball-Significance of SS amendments. 274 status of pending legislation, 1972 July 7
Box 53 No. 59	Robert Ball, SSA national conference, 1972 November 14
Box 53 No. 60	1SSI Conference, 1972 November 27 Note: Hess and Ball Whittier introduction.
Box 53 No. 61	Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, 1973 January 5
Box 53 No. 62-63	Robert Ball, undated
Box 53 No. 64	Robert Ball, gerontology conference, undated
Box 53 No. 65	Ball auditorium farewell, 1973 Note: Includes responses.
Box 53 No. 66	Program, Florence's dinner, undated
Box 53 No. 67-68	Mr. Cohen's reception, undated
Box 53 No. 69-70	[Untitled], undated
Box 53 No. 71	Macintosh Awards, undated Physical Description: 4-inch reel
Box 53 No. 72	[Untitled], undated Physical Description: 3-inch reel
Box 53 No. 73	“Social Security-Pros & Cons,” George S. Macko and Ball, Catholic Health Assembly, Dallas, 1981 June 2 Physical Description: Cassette tape
Box 53 No. 74-75	Possibilities for Atlanta job, from New Hampshire miscellaneous notes folder, 1955-1956 Physical Description: 2 6 1/2-inch plastic discs
M2003-040	Part 2 (M2003-040): Additions, 1949-1979 Physical Description: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1949-1979, consisting of an interview with Ball (1968), articles and speeches (1949-1979), materials documenting Columbia's Oral History Project (1968-1972), and Ball's involvement with the 1974 Task Force on Policies Towards Veterans Committee.	⇧
Box 1 Folder 1	Interview by David G. McComb, 1968 November 5
	Oral History Project - Columbia University
Box 1 Folder 2	Manuscript, 1968
Box 1 Folder 3-4	Correspondence, 1968-1972
Box 1 Folder 5	Published articles, 1965, 1974
Box 1 Folder 6-9	Speeches and statements, 1949-1979, undated
	Task Force on Policies Towards Veterans
Box 2 Folder 1	Report, “Those Who Served,” 1974
Box 2 Folder 2	Correspondence, 1973-1974
	Research materials
Box 2 Folder 3	Published articles, 1971-1973
Box 2 Folder 4	Newspaper clippings, 1974
M2010-048	Part 3 (M2010-048): Additions, 1954-2007 Physical Description: 7.0 c.f. (7 record center cartons) Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1954-2007, consisting of articles, speeches, testimony and correspondence by Ball relating to Social Security, particularly the privatization of Social Security endorsed by President George W. Bush during the mid-2000s. The collection also contains material on Ball's book, Insuring the Essentials, Bob Ball on Social Security as well as biographical materials and interviews/oral history projects in which he participated. In addition, there are materials related to Medicare and national health care, including articles and plans by Ball and others as well as files of Nancy Altman, a colleague of Ball, and her book, The Battle for Social Security, including articles, drafts and correspondence on the subject.	⇧
Box 1 Folder 1-29	Articles by Robert Ball, 1963-2007
Box 2 Folder 1-2	Articles by others
Box 2 Folder 3-25	Articles and studies not written by Ball, 1980-2007
Box 2 Folder 26-28	Social Security history (Ball's designation)
Box 3 Folder 1-2	Ball testimony, 1959-1998
Box 3 Folder 3-5	Ball speeches, 1954-1998
	Insuring the Essentials, Bob Ball on Social Security materials
Box 3 Folder 6	Articles on book
Box 3 Folder 7	Book description
Box 3 Folder 8	Century Foundation (publisher)
Box 3 Folder 9	Correspondence, book mailings
Box 3 Folder 10-12	Correspondence regarding sent copies of book
Box 3 Folder 1	Correspondence - replies about book
Box 3 Folder 13	Materials and reviews of Ball's book
Box 3 Folder 14	Possible additions to book
Box 3 Folder 18	Materials on Altman and Ball books
Box 3 Folder 15	List of individuals available for book review
Box 3 Folder 16	Replies regarding book
Box 3 Folder 17	Materials on Altman and Ball's books
Box 3 Folder 18	Correspondence regarding “Within the System” by Myers
	Biographical materials
Box 3 Folder 19-20	Articles about Ball
Box 3 Folder 21-22	Materials
Box 4 Folder 1-2	Robert Ball Award
Box 4 Folder 3	Robert Ball and the Battle for Social Security
Box 4 Folder 4	Berkowitz draft (Biography of Ball)
Box 4 Folder 5	Correspondence with Berkowitz about book
Box 4 Folder 6	Review of Berkowitz biography of Ball (The Politics of Social Security)
Box 4 Folder 7	Brandeis University
Box 4 Folder 8	Calendar, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006
Box 4 Folder 9	Civil Service Award, 1973
Box 4 Folder 10	Employment record, 1949
Box 4 Folder 11	Greenspan conversation summaries, 2007
Box 4 Folder 12	Leaving government correspondence and articles, 1973
Box 4 Folder 13	Memoir
Box 4 Folder 14	Memoir-Reagan, 1939
Box 4 Folder 15-16	90th birthday
Box 4 Folder 17	National Association of Social Insurance, 2006
Box 4 Folder 18	Obituary
Box 4 Folder 19	Social Security swearing-in ceremony, 1962
Box 4 Folder 20	Travel reimbursement, 1996
Box 4 Folder 21	Vignettes of People Important to My Career in Social Security
	Oral History/Interview
Box 4 Folder 22-23	Interview
Box 4 Folder 24	Social Security online oral history
Box 4 Folder 25-35	Interviews, 1954-2001
Box 4 Folder 36-44	Handwritten notes
	Correspondence
Box 5 Folder 1-20	General, 1980-2007
Box 6 Folder 1-11	General, 1958-2007
Box 6 Folder 12	Letters of thanks, 1972-2001
Box 6 Folder 13	Correspondence regarding OASDI, 2000-2001
Box 6 Folder 14	Responses to Protecting Social Security article, 2003-2006
Box 6 Folder 15	Correspondence regarding Ball leaving Social Security, 1973
Box 6 Folder 16-17	Correspondence regarding Ball's Social Security proposal
	Medicare
Box 6 Folder 18	National health care, 1988-2001
Box 6 Folder 19-20	National health insurance, 1973-2005
Box 6 Folder 21	Health Insurance Reform Project, 1975-2004
Box 6 Folder 22	Health care/Medicare reform, 1973-1976
Box 6 Folder 23	National healthcare plan, 1976
Box 7 Folder 1	Medicare for All - Bernstein outline, 2003
Box 7 Folder 2	Other plans, Clinton and Kennedy, 1984-1993
Box 7 Folder 3	Articles on Medicare, 1966-2001
Box 7 Folder 4	Health plans review, articles by Ball, 1984-1990
Box 7 Folder 5	Health care notes
Box 7 Folder 6	Bob Ball on Medicare
Box 7 Folder 7	Kennedy health care plans
	Nancy Altman materials
Box 7 Folder 8	“Protecting Social Security's Current and Future Beneficiaries While Restoring the Program to Long-Run Balance,” 2007
Box 7 Folder 9	Altman articles
Box 7 Folder 10-11	Correspondence file regarding Nancy's [Altman's] book, The Battle for Social Security, 2005
Box 7 Folder 12-16	Nancy Altman book drafts
Box 7 Folder 17	Manuscript
Box 7 Folder 18	List of names in Nancy Altman's book
Box 7 Folder 19	Altman article on Obama and Social Security