Robert M. Ball
Former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration of the United StatesWikipedia
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Oct 14, 2026
Marc GoldweinGUEST
You know who s- opposed essentially every part of that package? The AARP.
Marc GoldweinGUEST
Bob Ball, who was the Democratic negotiator, he called them a nuisance.
Marc GoldweinGUEST
Um-
JoleneHOST
Wow
Richard RJ EskowHOST
So what was your thought in putting this book together?
Nancy J. AltmanGUEST
Well, you know, I was very fortunate, um, at the start of my career to meet, um, two men who were instrumental in the enactment of Social Security, um, Wilbur Cohen and, and Bob Ball.
Nancy J. AltmanGUEST
And I knew that they really, their vision of it was an incremental approach to a universal system.
Nancy J. AltmanGUEST
And then of course, we, um, it was enacted in 1965.