1. See Basil Rauch, The History of the New Deal, 1933–1938 (New York: Creative Age Press, 1944), 156–159, for a discussion of this policy.
2. “President’s Remarks to the National Conference on Economic Security,” Box 1: National Conference of Economic Security, RG 47, National Archives; “Speech, August 29, 1934,” Box 28: Speeches 1934, HHP, FDRL; Quoted in Halsted MS, chapter 7; Harold L. Ickes, The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes, vol. 1, The First Thousand Days, 1933–1936 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953), 194.
3. Robert S. McElvaine, The Great Depression: America 1929–1941 (New York: Times Books, 1984), 248.
4. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Age of Roosevelt, vol. 2, The Coming of the New Deal (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1958), 294.
5. Edwin E. Witte, The Development of the Social Security Act (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1962), 44; Witte, “Twenty Years of Social Security,” 7; Proceedings, National Conference on Economic Security November 11, 1934, 105–107, Box 4, RG 47, National Archives. See also FERA, Folder: publicity, Box 57, RG 69, National Archives.