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    Wilbur Joseph Cohen (June 10, 1913 – May 17, 1987) was an American social scientist and civil servant. He was one of the key architects in the creation...
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    The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building (formerly the Social Security Administration Building) is a historic building at 330 Independence Avenue, Southwest...
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  • businessman and owner of hotels and casinos Wilbur Cobb (1929–2020), American jazz drummer Wilbur J. Cohen (1913–1987), American social scientist and,...
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    were David W. Burke, Ted Kaufman, Tom C. Korologos, Bette Bao Lord, Alberto J. Mora, Cheryl Halpern, Marc Nathanson, and Carl Spielvogel. On October 1,...
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  • White House. March 22 – President Johnson announces the nomination of Wilbur J. Cohen for Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. March 24 – Vice President...
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    efforts to introduce Medicare and his working relationship with Wilbur J. Cohen. "Cohen's immediate superior and fellow Wisconsinite, HEW Undersecretary...
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    1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson Preceded by Anthony J. Celebrezze Succeeded by Wilbur J. Cohen Personal details Born John William Gardner (1912-10-08)October...
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    January 21, 1969 – June 23, 1970 President Richard Nixon Preceded by Wilbur J. Cohen Succeeded by Elliot Richardson 38th Lieutenant Governor of California...
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    Gardner California August 18, 1965 March 1, 1968 4-years in office 7 Wilbur J. Cohen Michigan May 16, 1968 January 20, 1969 1-year and 8 moths in office...
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    Retrieved April 19, 2013. Solberg 1984, p. 48. Cohen, p. 45 Cohen, pp. 45–46 Humphrey, pp. 48–49 Cohen, p. 46 Cohen, p. 54 Solberg 1984, pp. 48–49. Solberg 1984...
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    of public medical care. Mills and Johnson administration official Wilbur J. Cohen crafted a three-part healthcare bill consisting of Medicare Part A...
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    Cliff Clevenger (1885–1960), U.S. Representative from Ohio (Appleton) Wilbur J. Cohen (1913–1987), U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (Milwaukee)...
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    the truth." Roosevelt approved this broadcast, which then-Colonel William J. Donovan (COI) and Sherwood (FIS) had recommended to him. It was Sherwood...
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  • Cohen was born in 1942 in Washington D.C.. His parents were Wilbur J. Cohen and Eloise Bittel Cohen. Their other two children were Bruce B. Cohen (1944)...
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    Lyndon B. Johnson (redirect from L.B.J.)
    key player in initiating this program, named Medicare, was Representative Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. To reduce Republican...
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    Health, Education, and Welfare Anthony J. Celebrezze (1963–1965) John W. Gardner (1965–1968) Wilbur J. Cohen (1968–1969) Secretary of Housing and Urban...
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    University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0231120692. Mills, pp. 18–19. Miller, Wilbur R. (2012). The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia...
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  • Alvin J. Clasen, Wisconsin State Assembly man John Louis Coffey, Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals James Kelsey Cogswell, U.S. Navy admiral Wilbur J. Cohen, U...
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  • murals at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C. as part of the Works Progress Administration. 24 murals at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building...
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    Health, Education, and Welfare Anthony J. Celebrezze (1963–1965) John W. Gardner (1965–1968) Wilbur J. Cohen (1968–1969) Secretary of Housing and Urban...
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    Bloomington on the weekends to write for the Pantagraph. Stevenson received his J.D. degree from Northwestern in 1926 and passed the Illinois state bar examination...
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    Edwin Witte, known as the "Father of Social Security," Arthur J. Altmeyer, and Wilbur Cohen developed the 1934 proposal for a federally funded pension plan...
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    1912, in DeKalb, Illinois, the son of Alpha Belle (née White) and William Wilbur Wirtz. He attended Northern Illinois University, where he became a brother...
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    Anthony J. Celebrezze Ohio July 31, 1962 August 17, 1965 Lyndon B. Johnson 6 John W. Gardner California August 18, 1965 March 1, 1968 7 Wilbur J. Cohen Michigan...
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    ISBN 9780801483233. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctt1rv61rh. Archived from the original on June 1, 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2021. Hotez, Peter J. (June 16, 2007). "Control...
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    It. In a review of his memoir As I Saw It, the American historian Warren Cohen noted that little of the acrimony of Rusk's relations with McNamara, Bundy...
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    Eagleburger, BA, MA); United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (Wilbur J. Cohen, BA, and Tommy Thompson, BA, JD); United States Secretary of the Interior...
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  • National Organization for Women David G. Classon, U.S. Representative Wilbur J. Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Cabinet of President...
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    co-founded the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, along with Henry J. Friendly, later the chief judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. During...
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    Scheele 9 Robert Q. Marston September 1, 1968 - January 21, 1973 Wilbur J. Cohen – John F. Sherman January 21, 1973 - May 28, 1973 Elliot L. Richardson...
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