She took that philosophy and she welded it to the political will and power that FDR had built. And they brought us Social Security wasn't a block grant. It wasn't a tax credit. It wasn't some marginal amendment to existing legislation. They invented it out of whole cloth because they believed a society that could not take care of its elderly was no society at all. (21:16–21:30)
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Asserts that Social Security was a new creation, not a modification of existing programs.
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