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at The Brick House.
The weather could not have been more perfect. We had two New Dealer's
grandchildren on hand to cut the Social Security's 75th birthday
cake. Professor June Hopkins, who is the granddaughter of Harry
Hopkins, and Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall, who is Frances Perkins's
grandson. Perkins was the chair and Hopkins was a member of the
Committee on Economic Security, which created the Social Security
Act. We also heard short acceptance speeches from our Frances Perkins
Leadership award winners, Brooksley Born, Nancy Altman, and Megan
Williams. June Hopkins, granddaughter of Harry Hopkins, one of the
architects of the New Deal and close advisor to President Roosevelt,
was kind enough to share a few words as well.
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