Congress and the New Deal: Social Security

"A Petition Favoring Legislation for the Townsend Plan of Old Age Revolving Pensions," ca.1935
National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate

"Economic Security Act Hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, 1935
National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives

Letter from President Franklin Roosevelt to the President of the Senate, John Nance Garner, August 24, 1935
National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate

"More Social Security for the American Family." Poster for the Social Security Administration, by an unknown artist, undated
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, National Archives and Records Administration

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