Wilbur Joseph Cohen was an American social scientist and civil servant. He was one of the key architects in the creation and expansion of the American welfare state and was involved in the creation of
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Cohen being sworn in as the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; from left to right: President Lyndon B. Johnson (far right), Vice-president Hubert H. Humphrey (far left), and the Eloise B. Cohen (right) and the three sons in 1968.
Cohen in the early days of Social Security with Maurine Mulliner, who was the executive secretary of the Social Security Board in 1935.
President Johnson signs a bill authorizing education programs for children with disabilities; from left to right: Hugh L. Carey, Dominick V. Daniels, Carl D. Perkins, Albert H. Quie, Winston L. Prouty, Cohen (1968)
Robert Hutchinson Finch was a Republican politician from La Canada Flintridge, California. From 1967 to 1969, he served as the 38th lieutenant governor of California. Following Richard Nixon's preside
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…Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare In office May 16, 1968 – January 20, 1969 President Lyndon B. Johnson Preceded by John W. Gardner Succeeded by Robert Finch Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare In office June 1965 – May 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson Preceded by Ivan A. Nestingen Succeeded…
Finch in a group photo of Nixon's cabinet on June 16, 1972, far left in the back row.
The gravesite of Robert Finch