Barb Burt, the Frances Perkins Center's Executive Director, shares her vision of the Frances Perkins Center in the spring of 2010, Social Security's 75th anniversary year.
The second of two panels the Frances Perkins Center held at the Harvard Club or New York City to commemorate the start of Social Security's 75th anniversary year.
On January 14, 2010, the Frances Perkins Center hosted two panel discussions as the start if a year of celebrating and supporting Social Security, one of Frances Perkins's most significant achievements.
This video shares the opening remarks following two panel discussions and a reception and the Harvard Club in New York at an event celebrating Social Security's 75th anniversary year and Frances Perkins' key role in its creation.
Jennifer Rooks, Maine Watch host, visits the Frances Perkins Center and interviews Barbara Burt - Executive Director, Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall - FP's grandson, Kirstin Downey - FP Biographer, and Dr. Christopher Breiseth - Historian and president emeritus of the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. Frances Perkins was the first woman to sit on a presidential Cabinet, chief architect of the Social Security, key player in the New Deal, and close friend and advisor to FDR. Visit the Frances P...